On info in the public domain question, my understanding is that fair
obtaining would be satisfied but you still have to legitimise the processing
on one of the grounds in Schedule 2.
Gail Waters
DP Coordinator
Open University
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trevor Field [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 02 March 2000 17:53
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> Subject: Advertising on behalf of others
>
>
> I wonder if anyone could advise on the following issue, which is probably
> as
> relevant to the 1984 Act as to the 1998 one.
>
> I look after a network of senior administrators in Europe. I keep a
> Directory
> of institutional contacts not only for member institutions, but for all
> HEIs in
> relevant countries. This has been in existence for some years.
>
> Two questions arise:
> 1) Since the processing is not new, I suppose that the information
> (circulated only to our official members) is ok in respect to those
> non-members
> named. In fact, we obtain our information from national associations of
> heads
> of administration, and I would have thought that this all counts as info
> (phone/fax/email) being circulated among like-minded colleagues. (It's not
>
> exactly public information, but it's not far off - a lot of it can be
> obtained
> from the Web.)
>
> 2) More pressing is that we have been approached by a (very senior)
> colleague who would like to use our mailing labels to advertise a
> publication
> by another association with which he (or she!) is involved. This is
> another
> "trade organisation", entirely concerned with HE. However, two days into
> new
> DP regime, I find myself worrying about this as a form of direct marketing
> -
> especially as the publisher has offered to pay for the service which we
> would
> provide! (We would not pass on the information.) Does this sound like
> innocent
> and useful networking among like-minded colleagues - or the subject of a
> valid
> objection?
>
> I presume that we could cover this by telling all members that "from time
> to
> time we may circulate you with [stuff from] carefully selcted partners,
> blah",
> but any advice would be welcome. Thanks,
>
> Trevor Field
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> Dr Trevor Field
> Senior Assistant Secretary
> University of Aberdeen
> Aberdeen AB24 3FX
> Tel: [+44] (0)1224 272077
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