Thanks to everyone for your thoughts on data protection officers as third parties. My Occ Health person is new in post so if nothing else this is an ideal reason for me to talk to her while she's keen and make sure she understands DP. I'm hoping we can also agree how these kind of requests will be handled in future (and keeping my fingers crossed that we don't receive too many!) Sara Sara Stock University Records Manager University of Essex Wivenhoe Park Colchester CO4 3SQ Tel: (01206) 874853 E-mail: sstock (non-Essex users should add @essex.ac.uk to create a full e-mail address) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 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 Any queries about sending or receiving messages please send to the list owner [log in to unmask] Full help Desk - please email [log in to unmask] describing your needs To receive these emails in HTML format send the command: SET data-protection HTML to [log in to unmask] (all commands go to [log in to unmask] not the list please) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^