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diff --git a/app/views/help/privacy.html.erb b/app/views/help/privacy.html.erb index 8e5293892..f0e82ab13 100644 --- a/app/views/help/privacy.html.erb +++ b/app/views/help/privacy.html.erb @@ -84,6 +84,11 @@ ask a friend to. We don't have the resources to do this for everyone. </dd> +<dt id="anonymous">Why are there anonymous requests on the site? <a href="#anonymous">#</a> </dt> +<dd> +Some public authorities are using mySociety's <a href="https://github.com/mysociety/foi-register">FOI Register</a> software in order to use WhatDoTheyKnow as a disclosure log for all their FOI activity. When people make requests to the authority their names will usually be withheld from publication just as they would in an authority disclosure log on an authority website. +</dd> + <dt id="full_address">They've asked for my postal address! <a href="#full_address">#</a> </dt> <dd> @@ -111,7 +116,7 @@ address should be treated as the return address." <dd> <p>If an authority only has a paper copy of the information that you want, they may ask you for a postal address. To start with, try persuading them -to scan in the documents for you. You can even <a href="http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/car_parking_charges_policy_and_a#outgoing-532">offer to gift them a scanner</a>, which in that particular case +to scan in the documents for you. You can even <a href="https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/car_parking_charges_policy_and_a#outgoing-532">offer to gift them a scanner</a>, which in that particular case embarrassed the authority into finding one they had already.</p> <p>If that doesn't work, and you want to provide your postal address privately |