It came into force on 1st March 2000 and was introduced in order to protect information relating to living individuals. This information can be held either electronically or manually, for example, on a computer or in a filing cabinet.
As an individual you have many rights under the Act, including:
For more information on Data Protection please refer to the Data Protection Policy below.
It is important to note that normally you will not be able to ask for a copy of another individual’s personal information, this is called third party information. If you wish to see further guidance on this please refer to the document ‘Access to 3rd Party Information’ below, or look on the Information Commissioner’s website.
Subject Access Requests