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Preparing files in response to a Subject Access Request


Step 1 – Ensure you have Adobe Acrobat Pro downloaded to your Surface

 

Click on the Window in the bottom left corner

In the app list click on Adobe Creative Cloud

Scroll down the list of apps to find Acrobat DC and download it (unless it says you already have!)

 

At the end of Step 0 you will have Adobe Acrobat Pro which you can use to edit pdfs


Step 2 – Getting the data into pdf format and into one place on your home drive

Open a folder on your home drive into which you will put all the pdf versions of:

 

  • Emails:
  • Open email containing the Subject’s data
  • Click File>Save as Adobe PDF and save the file in your home drive SAR folder you create for this task.  Save using the format ‘Yearmonthday (of the email)–Description’ e.g. 201108-Email to Mrs X re health

 

  • Word/PowerPoint/Excel Files/Other
  • Create a pdf version of the information (if it’s in a spreadsheet consider simply copying the lines in question into a word document and saving that as a pdf, as long as it makes sense to the reader afterwards) and save in the format Year/month/day (of the email)–Description

 

At the end of Step 1 you will have all the information to be submitted in pdf files in one folder on your home drive.

 

Step 3 – Partial redaction of anyone else’s personal data

Within your home drive SAR folder, create a sub-folder called ‘Redacted’, then return to the contents of the main SAR folder

Right click on the file to be redacted

Select ‘Edit with Adobe Acrobat’

Once file is open in Adobe

Click on Tools

Scroll down page and click on Redact

Drag cursor over the words you think should be redacted (they will be outlined in red) so they can be checked by the Hd Data Protection

              It will look like this:

 

What should I redact?

  • Names and personal information of other students/pupils unless from the same family
  • Names and personal information of non-employees 

DO NOT CLICK ‘APPLY’ (as this will permanently redact the words before they can be checked) :

Click the Save icon in the top left corner (it will automatically offer the file name with ‘Redacted’ in the title), select your ‘Redacted’ sub-folder as the location and click Save again

 

At the end of Step 2 you will have all the partially ‘redacted’ files in one sub-folder called ‘Redacted’

 

 

Step 4 – Transfer the data into the SharePoint folder you have been allocated by Hd Data Protection

Copy and paste all the ‘redacted’ files from your home drive SAR folder into the SharePoint Folder you have been allocated

Notify Hd Data Protection that you are complete

 

At the end of Step 3 all your files to be submitted have been lodged with Hd Data Protection for final checking and permanent redaction, and Hd Data Protection is aware.

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