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diff --git a/lib/views/help/privacy.rhtml b/lib/views/help/privacy.rhtml index 4f4f2d3..2a4007a 100644 --- a/lib/views/help/privacy.rhtml +++ b/lib/views/help/privacy.rhtml @@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ <dd><p>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 -@<%= MySociety::Config.get('INCOMING_EMAIL_DOMAIN') %> which is specific to that request. </p> +request to. They only get to see an email address +@<%= MySociety::Config.get('INCOMING_EMAIL_DOMAIN', 'localhost') %> which is specific to that request. </p> <p>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.</p> </dd> @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ requests (<a href="#delete_requests">more details</a>). 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. +get in touch with you to assist you with your research or to campaign with you. </p> <p>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 @@ -67,14 +67,14 @@ Information Commissioner later about the handling of your request. <ul> <li>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 <strong>not</strong> as "Arthur" or "A.T.R.". +"A. T. Roberts", or "Mr Roberts", but <strong>not</strong> as "Arthur" or "A.T.R.". </li> <li>Women may use their maiden name.</li> <li>In most cases, you may use any name by which you are "widely known and/or is regularly used". <li>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. -<li>Ask someone else to make the request on your behalf. +<li>Ask someone else to make the request on your behalf. <li>You may, if you are really stuck, ask us to make the request on your behalf. Please <a href="/help/contact">contact us</a> with a good reason why you cannot make the request yourself and cannot @@ -89,19 +89,19 @@ ask a friend to. We don't have the resources to do this for everyone. <dd> <p>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. +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. </p> <p> The Ministry of Justice has <a href="http://www.justice.gov.uk/guidance/foi-procedural-what.htm">guidance on this</a> – <em>"As well as hard copy written correspondence, requests that are -transmitted electronically (for example, in emails) are acceptable +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." </em> </p> -<p>As if that isn't enough, the Information Commissioner's +<p>As if that isn't enough, the Information Commissioner's <a href="http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/library/freedom_of_information/practical_application/foi_hints_for_practitioners_handing_foi_and_eir_requests_2008_final.pdf">Hints for Practitioners</a> say <em>"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."</em> </p> @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ see the section on <a href="#real_name">pseudonyms</a>.</p> <dt id="takedown">Can you take down personal information about me? <a href="#takedown">#</a> </dt> -<dd> +<dd> <p>If you see any personal information about you on the site which you'd like us to remove or hide, then please <a href="/help/contact">let us know</a>. @@ -166,8 +166,8 @@ which outweighs the public interest, and must demonstrate that efforts have been made to conceal the name on the organisation's own website.</p> <p>For all other requests we apply a public interest test to decide -whether information should be removed. -<a href="http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?ActiveTextDocId=3190650"> Section 32</a> +whether information should be removed. +<a href="http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?ActiveTextDocId=3190650"> Section 32</a> 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 |