Personal information charter
Information on how to submit a subject access request to the SIA.
Requesting your information
You have the right to ask for all the information we have about you. This is called a 鈥楽ubject Access Request鈥� in data protection legislation.
We may not be able to share some information with you, for instance:
- information that is also about other identifiable people
- information that might stop us preventing or detecting a crime if we were to share it
How to ask us for personal information
Please tell us:
- what information you are asking for
- your full name, date of birth, and contact details
If you have an SIA online account, please and contact us through the 鈥淗elp鈥� tab. Select 鈥淚 have an enquiry鈥� as the reason for contact and 鈥淚 want to make a DPA Subject Access Request鈥� as the category.
If you do not have an SIA online account, please use the form on our website. Select 鈥淕eneral Enquiry鈥� as the category and 鈥淚 want to make a DPA Subject Access Request鈥� as the topic.
What will we do?
We might contact you to ask for further information to confirm your identity or to clarify the information you are asking for.
If we find that the information you have asked for is exempt under data protection legislation, we will explain this to you when we respond to your request.
For information that we can share with you, we are required to provide this to you within one calendar month from the date you requested it.
We will respond to your request by email unless you have told us you want to receive the information another way.
Your other rights
You also have the right to ask us to:
- change information you think is wrong
- delete information we hold about you (exercising your 鈥楻ight to be Forgotten鈥�)
- limit what we use your personal data for
- have your information moved to another provider (data portability)
You can read more about your rights in our privacy policy