Making a request for your personal data
The Data Protection Act 1998 gives people the right of access, subject to certain exemptions, to manual and computer records holding personal data about themselves. Individuals may request access to their records for a variety of reasons.
How to ask for your information
An application for access to a record may be made to the CRC by any of the following:
- The Data Subject.
- A person authorised in writing to make the application on the Data Subject’s behalf.
- Where the Data Subject is a child and incapable of making a request on his or her own behalf, a person having parental responsibility for the Data Subject.
- Where the Data Subject is incapable of managing his own affairs, any person appointed by a court to manage those affairs.
To help you send in your request for information you can use our subject access request form.
Subject Access Request Form (word version)
Subject Access request Form (pdf version)
You should send your request to:
Chief Information Officer
Commission for Rural Communities
John Dower House
Crescent Place
Cheltenham
Gl50 3RA
Email: cio@ruralcommunities.gov.uk
Phone: 01242 521381
The CRC will use the contact details you provide to deal with your request for information, and for no other purpose. Please refer to our privacy statement for further details.
How to access information we hold
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