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Subject access request

A person’s request for a copy of the personal data an organisation holds about them, and for how it is used. Their reason for asking does not matter. Tennerby passes a request about Corrandale’s data to Corrandale, and never answers that part itself. Agreement, clause 8.1 · Chapter 8 · see Business Day, Data subject, Stop the clock

Explained in Chapter 8, Subject Access Requests: Deadlines and Searches, of Data Protection.

The main page for this term is Subject access request, in White Label SaaS.

How it comes up, in Chapter 8
Anyone may ask an organisation for a copy of the personal data it holds about them: a subject access request. The person the data is about is the data subject. In July, a care worker asks Tennerby’s support desk for everything it holds about her. Most of it is held for Corrandale, so Tennerby passes that part on. Tennerby answers for its own small part itself.
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