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Yes. Add our items to your cart and head to the checkout. Fill in your details and at payment method choose ‘invoice’. We will get this sent to you under separate cover.

If you need to raise a PO number, please find our details here:
Company Name: Tkm Consulting (Craigellachie) Ltd
Company No: SC472017
VAT no: GB280996751

Yes. We post any discounts and offers on our social accounts. If you follow our Twitter or LinkedIn you’ll be kept up to date! We also offer discounts on bundles.

Domestic shipping within the UK and Ireland has no additional charge to the customer.
International shipping incurs a flat rate charge of £7.50. The equivalent value in your domestic currency will be added to your order at checkout.

Tkm Consulting (Craigellachie) Ltd is the legal entity that you will be transacting with for the purchase of your products.

As many of our courses are delivered online we cover the whole of the UK. We can offer in house and online training for your business or organisation. Subject to availability we can also offer in person face-to-face training.

All in house training usually incurs a day rate and a cost per person attending the course. We do offer some courses on package deals. You can either check out our Bundles or get in contact with an enquiry.

This depends on the course you purchase. The minimum access is two months for our essentials collection courses, up to 1 year for our longer courses. Please check the individual product pages for further details.

Once you purchase one of our online on demand courses we will be in touch with instructions for accessing our learning management system, called Training Post. From there you can access your pre-recorded course content and resources. 

There is no option to download our training videos to your device(s). You must watch these when you are connected to the internet and logged into our learning management system. You can however download the digital course materials and resources.

For ther majority of our courses there is no minimum number of attendees. Again, it would be best to get in contact to discuss this further.

Yes, although this depends on the course. We would urge you to make contact with us directly and let us know what your trainings goals are.

No. You will retain access to the learning management system for the specific period for that course. Check the inidivual product page to find out more as access can range from two months, six months up to one year.

Yes. We can grant your organisation a license to our LMS and assign you with specific courses. From there you become responsible for adding your own attendees.

Unfortunately, we are unable to provide transcripts of our recorded content on the LMS.

We currently use Webex or MS Teams to deliver our online attended live training. You can access both via the browser or download the app. We note that users have found Webex to have better functionality if accessed via the app.

You will be emailed a calendar invite prior to the course commencement date whereby you will find a link to join the live training sessions.

On average we have 6-8 people attend our live attended courses. We cap our course capacity at 8 because we like to keep our training as interactive as possible and allow everyone the opprotnity to ask questions and collaborate where they feel comfortable. We have had great feedback about our smaller course sizes and find this works best for our customers. 

Where you are attneding live online training we will send you your materials a week prior to the course commencement date. Where you have booked an on demand course and wish to recieeve hardcopy materials, we will prepare and send these as soon as we receieve payment. Please allow up to three working days between payement and shipping.

For most of our attended courses you will be given access to our client portal for one year. Here you will find your digital course materials, the latest news, our own newsletter and information on upcoming courses.

The cost of registration with the BCS and the cost associated with your exam is all covered in our course cost.

You will register with the BCS and choose a date and time for your exam. The examination is carried out online and shall be invigilated by someone from the BCS via video conferencing.

Where you have an SQA exam to undertake as part of a course offered by Tkm Consulting you will liase with your course tutor to choose a data and time for your exam. This will take place online and one of our team will invigilate your exam.

Your certificate(s) will not expire, however this is not to say that you shouldn’t be keeping your knowledge up to date, and particularly your CPD (continuous professional development). This is very improtant for a Data Protection Officers or Records Manager.

BCS certified courses focus solely on the data protection legislation within the United Kingdom and any developments of same. SQA qualifications have a more practical focus and include sessions on information governance.

You can collect badges to keep a record of your own CPD, or use them to display on your socials. If you have recently completed one of our courses and would like a badge, please get in contact.

You don’t need any qualification or course to become a Data Protection Officer in the UK although the legislation refers to “expert knowledge of data protection law and practices”.  The knowledge you need is likely to depend upon the organisation you are working in.  A good starting point would be either the Certificate in Managing Data Protection Compliance or the BCS Practitioner Certificate in Data Protection.

Tkm offers

Certificate in Data Protection Compliance– one day

Certificate in Managing Data Protection Compliance – 5 day

Diploma in Managing Data Protection Compliance – 5 day plus work-based assessment

BCS Foundation Certificate in Data Protection – 3 day

BCS Practitioner Certificate in Data Protection – 5 day

Assessing and Managing Risk for Data Protection – 0.5 days

Conducting Data Protection Impact Assessments – 1 day

Auditing Data Protection Compliance – 1 day

Tkm offers data protection qualifications that are approved and certificated by the SQA and BCS qualifications.  The key difference between the two is that the SQA approved qualifications have a more practical focus and include sessions on information governance compared to the BCS qualifications that focus solely on UK data protection legislation.

The BCS Practitioner Certificate in Data Protection is 5 days long, usually delivered online over 3 weeks.  We normally recommend you sit your assessment approximately 4 weeks after the course has been delivered.  The BCS Foundation Certificate in Data Protection is 3 days.

Yes, the prices of Tkm’s courses all include any assessments as well as course materials.  For the BCS Practitioner Certificate in Data Protection, the price also includes a one-to-one revision session.

In the UK, there is no standard or recognised certification specifically for a Data Protection Officer (DPO).  Tkm offers a number of certificated data protection qualifications although these do not certify you as a DPO.

Tkm offers a range of data protection courses, some of which are qualifications and certificated.  Others are recognised by our FYI badge scheme.  We also offer data protection training that is customised for your organisation if you are looking for in house training.

The BCS offers two courses in data protection.  The BCS Foundation Certificate in Data Protection is 3 days long and is suitable for those looking for a basic understanding in the key areas of data protection legislation.  The BCS Practitioner Certificate in Data Protection is 5 days long and suitable for those who are in the role of Data Protection Officer (DPO) or are responsible for advising organisations on data protection related matters.

Tkm currently offers all data protection training online.  Face to face sessions are available for in house sessions

Data protection qualifications offered by Tkm do not expire although it is important to keep your knowledge up to date and regularly participate in continuous professional development (CPD) activities, particularly if you are a Data Protection Officer (DPO) as there is a legal requirement to maintain your knowledge.  Tkm offers courses in assessing and managing risk for data protection, conducting data protection impact assessments, and auditing data protection compliance.  We also have a range of information governance courses that are suitable for DPO CPD including the BCS Foundation Certificate in Information Security Management Principles.