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Who gets to see my email address? #
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We will not disclose your email address to anyone unless we are obliged to by law, - or you ask us to. This includes the public authority that you are sending a - request to. They only get to see an email address - @whatdotheyknow.com which is specific to that request.

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If you send a message to another user on the site, then it will reveal your - email address to them. You will be told that this is going to happen.

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Will you send nasty, brutish spam to my email address? #
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Nope. After you sign up to WhatDoTheyKnow we will only send you emails - relating to a request you made, an email alert that you have signed up for, - or for other reasons that you specifically authorise. We will never give or - sell your email addresses to anyone else, unless we are obliged to by law, or - you ask us to. -
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Why will my name and my request appear publicly on the site? #
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We publish your request on the Internet so that anybody can read it and - make use of the information that you have found. We do not normally delete - requests (more details). -

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- Your name is tangled up with your request, so has to be published as well. - It is only fair, as we're going to publish the name of the civil servant who - writes the response to your request. Using your real name also helps people - get in touch with you to assist you with your research or to campaign with you. -

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By law, you must use your real name for the request to be a valid Freedom of - Information request. See the next question for alternatives if you do not want - to publish your full name. -

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Can I make an FOI request using a pseudonym? #
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Technically, you must use your real name for your request to be a valid Freedom of Information request in law. See this - guidance from the Information Commissioner (January 2009). -

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However, the same guidance also says it is good practice for the public -authority to still consider a request made using an obvious pseudonym. -You should refer to this if a public authority refuses a request because you -used a pseudonym.

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Be careful though, even if the authority follows this good practice, the -pseudonym will probably make it impossible for you to complain to the -Information Commissioner later about the handling of your request. -

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There are several good alternatives to using a pseudonym.

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  • Use a different form of your name. The guidance says -that "Mr Arthur Thomas Roberts" can make a valid request as "Arthur Roberts", -"A. T. Roberts", or "Mr Roberts", but not as "Arthur" or "A.T.R.". -
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  • In most cases, you may use any name by which you are "widely known and/or -is regularly used". -
  • Use the name of an organisation, the name of a company, the trading name of -a company, or the trading name of a sole trader. -
  • Ask someone else to make the request on your behalf. -
  • You may, if you are really stuck, ask us to make the request on -your behalf. Please contact us with -a good reason why you cannot make the request yourself and cannot -ask a friend to. We don't have the resources to do this for everyone. -
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Please do not try to impersonate someone else.

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They've asked for my postal address! #
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If a public authority asks you for your full, physical address, reply to them saying -that section 8.1.b of the FOI Act asks for an "address for correspondence", -and that the email address you are using is sufficient. -

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-The Ministry of Justice has guidance -on this – -"As well as hard copy written correspondence, requests that are -transmitted electronically (for example, in emails) are acceptable -... If a request is received by email and no postal address is given, the email -address should be treated as the return address." - -

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As if that isn't enough, the Information Commissioner's -Hints for Practitioners say -"Any correspondence could include a request for information. If it is written (this includes e-mail), legible, gives the name of the applicant, an address for reply (which could be electronic), and includes a description of the information required, then it will fall within the scope of the legislation." -

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No no, they need a postal address to send a paper response! #
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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 offer to gift them a scanner, which in that particular case -embarrassed the authority into finding one they had already.

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If that doesn't work, and you want to provide your postal address privately -in order to receive the documents, mark your request as "They are going to reply by post", and it will -give you an email address to use for that purpose.

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Can you delete my requests, or alter my name? #
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<%= site_name %> is a permanent, public archive of Freedom of -Information requests. Even though you may not find the response to -a request useful any more, it may be of interest to others. For this -reason, we will not delete requests. -

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Under exceptional circumstances we may remove or change your name -on the website, see the next question. -Similarly, we may also remove other personal information. -

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If you're worried about this before you make your request, -see the section on pseudonyms.

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Can you take down personal information about me? #
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If you see any personal information about you on the site which you'd like -us to remove or hide, then please let us know. -Specify exactly what information you believe to be problematic and why, and -where it appears on the site.

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If it is sensitive personal information that has been accidentally -posted, then we will usually remove it. Normally we will only consider -requests to remove personal information which come from the individual -concerned, but for sensitive information we would appreciate anyone -pointing out anything they see.

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We consider that there is a strong public interest in -retaining the names of officers or servants of public authorities. We will only -remove such names in exceptional circumstances, such as where the disclosure of -a name and position of employment would substantially risk an individual's -safety. If you are such an official and you wish to have your name removed for -such an urgent reason, you must supply us with a request to do so from your -line manager. This request must demonstrate that a risk has been perceived -which outweighs the public interest, and must demonstrate that efforts have -been made to conceal the name on the organisation's own website.

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For all other requests we apply a public interest test to decide -whether information should be removed. - Section 32 -of the Data Protection Act 1998 permits us to do this, as the material we -publish is journalistic. We cannot easily edit many types of attachments (such -as PDFs, or Microsoft Word or Excel files), so we will usually ask -that authorities resend these with the personal information removed.

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