> Our Marketing department are having exploratory talks with another > organisation about offering a joint service to some of our customers > with the possibilty of cross-marketing to each other's customers in > the future. The initial requirement is to cross-match data, and it is > proposed this would be done by us or the other organisation. > We do tell students at the outset that we will inform them about > products or services offered by our associates, and that this may > involve our associates receiving some personal information about them > unless they 'opt out'. > Do you think this would cover the sort of data matching exercise our > colleagues now have in mind? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 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 : - http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/help/commandref.htm (all commands go to [log in to unmask] not the list please) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^