Data protection fee: not-for-profit exemption

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Dear Information Commissioner's Office,

Please share a copy of your policy, guidance and so on on the exemption in schedule 2 of the Data Protection (Charges and Information) Regulations 2018 which reads; "carried out by a body or association which is not established or conducted for profit and which carries out the processing for the purposes of establishing or maintaining membership or support for the body or association, or providing or administering activities for individuals who are either a member of the body or association or who have regular contact with it"

Yours faithfully,
Steve C Elibank

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Information Commissioner's Office

6 February 2020

 

Case Reference Number IRQ0907384

 

Dear S Elibank

Request for Information
 
Thank you for your correspondence which we received on 31 January, in
which you have made a request for information held by the Information
Commissioner's Office (ICO). 
 
Your request has been passed to the ICO’s Information Access Team, and is
being dealt with in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 2000
(FOIA) under the reference number shown above. 
 
As you are probably aware the FOIA provides individuals with the right of
access to recorded information held by public authorities. It is important
to note that a release under FOIA is applicant blind and therefore
effectively a release to the wider world.
 
We will respond to your FOIA request promptly, and no later than 28
February which is 20 working days from the day after we received your
request.
 
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information in the ‘subject’ field. This will ensure that your reply is
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Yours sincerely
 
 

Hannah Silk
Lead Information Access Officer
Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire SK9 5AF
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13 February 2020

 

Case Reference Number IRQ0907384

 

Dear S Elibank

 

Request for Information
 
Further to our acknowledgement of 3 February we can now respond to your
request for information of 31 January.
 
We have dealt with your request in accordance with your ‘right to know’
under section 1(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA).
 
Request
 
In your email you asked:
 
“Please share a copy of your policy, guidance and so on on the exemption
in schedule 2 of the Data Protection (Charges and Information) Regulations
2018 which reads; "carried out by a body or association which is not
established or conducted for profit and which carries out the processing
for the purposes of establishing or maintaining membership or support for
the body or association, or providing or administering activities for
individuals who are either a member of the body or association or who have
regular contact with it”
 
Our response
 
Please find attached a copy of our Guidance Note on the not-for-profit
exemption from the requirement to pay the data protection fee.
 
You can also find more information and guidance about the data protection
fee, including the exemptions, on our website [1]here.

Review Procedure
 
I hope this provides you with the information you require. However, if you
are dissatisfied with this response and wish to request a review of our
decision or make a complaint about how your request has been handled you
should write to the Information Access Team at the address below or e-mail
[2][ICO request email].
 
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working days of receipt by you of this response. Any such request received
after this time will only be considered at the discretion of the
Commissioner.
 
If having exhausted the review process you are not content that your
request or review has been dealt with correctly, you have a further right
of appeal to this office in our capacity as the statutory complaint
handler under the legislation. To make such an application, please write
to our Customer Contact Team at the address given or visit our website if
you wish to make a complaint under the Freedom of Information Act.
 
A copy of our review procedure can be accessed from our website.
 
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Yours sincerely
 
 

Hannah Silk
Lead Information Access Officer
Corporate Strategy and Planning Service
Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow,
Cheshire SK9 5AF
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