Do all organisations request personal details on these forms? e.g DoB,name. If the information is for statistics, surely completing the form and submitting it with the application form quoting job ref number would be sufficient. I dislike the idea of having personal data tied to a form that identifies the indiviual and contains details of sex, marital status, sexual orientaion, pyhsical/mental disablity, ethnic origin, colour of skin and hiv status, or am I being too picky? Moira ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ All archives of messages are stored permanently and are available to the world wide web community at large at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/data-protection.html If you wish to leave this list please send the command leave data-protection to [log in to unmask] All user commands can be found at : - www.jiscmail.ac.uk/user-manual/summary-user-commands.htm (all commands go to [log in to unmask] not the list please) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^