Given that their details are publicly available by looking in a telephone
directory, I wouldn't have thought there'd be an issue.
After all people can usually find out your name and address from the
electoral roll, and I don't remember giving express permission for this.
Su
-----Original Message-----
Date: Sat Sep 30, 2006 5:53 pm
From: "Sheila Sowter" sas24@...
Subject: Recommended Vet List
P12 of the latest issue of the magazine asks for Vets' details. It doesn't
say you ought to ask your vet if (s)he minds being on the list, and might
there not be implications under the Data Protection Act about how the
information is kept, even if the vet has given permission.
Sheila
Vet contact details are also freely available on the RCVS website, http://www.rcvs.org.uk , without prior registration.
Matt
On 10/1/06, Su Mitchell <su@...> wrote:
>
> Given that their details are publicly available by looking in a telephone
> directory, I wouldn't have thought there'd be an issue.
>
> After all people can usually find out your name and address from the
> electoral roll, and I don't remember giving express permission for this.
>
> Su
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Date: Sat Sep 30, 2006 5:53 pm
> From: "Sheila Sowter" sas24@...
> Subject: Recommended Vet List
>
>
> P12 of the latest issue of the magazine asks for Vets' details. It doesn't
> say you ought to ask your vet if (s)he minds being on the list, and might
> there not be implications under the Data Protection Act about how the
> information is kept, even if the vet has given permission.
> Sheila
>
>
>
>
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
They probably gave their permission somewhere, by ticking some box or other
to be on there, thats all you need....the rules are also somewhat different
if you are advertising yourself as a business, your "information" is then
free to share. Most vets advertise themselves as a business.
I've done Data Protection training at work, and to be honest if you allow
yourself to be in the phone book then you are allowing someone to take your
information and share it, the law is very grey in matters such as these. I
wouldn't worry about advertising vets freely whatsoever, but it is a common
courteousy sometimes just to ask your vet if they wouldn't mind. Just as I
would expect my vet to ask me if I wouldn't mind if they advertised me as a
"rat specialist" in the pages of their magazine and I had no idea....
L x
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>From: "Matt Creaney" <asbru.rattery@...>
>Reply-To: mrc_business@...
>To: mrc_business@...
>Subject: Re: [mrc_business] Digest Number 26
>Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 22:06:53 +0100
>
>Vet contact details are also freely available on the RCVS website,
>http://www.rcvs.org.uk , without prior registration.
>
>Matt
>
>On 10/1/06, Su Mitchell <su@...> wrote:
> >
> > Given that their details are publicly available by looking in a
>telephone
> > directory, I wouldn't have thought there'd be an issue.
> >
> > After all people can usually find out your name and address from the
> > electoral roll, and I don't remember giving express permission for this.
> >
> > Su
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Date: Sat Sep 30, 2006 5:53 pm
> > From: "Sheila Sowter" sas24@...
> > Subject: Recommended Vet List
> >
> >
> > P12 of the latest issue of the magazine asks for Vets' details. It
>doesn't
> > say you ought to ask your vet if (s)he minds being on the list, and
>might
> > there not be implications under the Data Protection Act about how the
> > information is kept, even if the vet has given permission.
> > Sheila
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
Vets aren't allowed to practise if they are not on the
RCVS Register, so it's a professional necessity to be
on it.
Even if there is no Data Protection angle, as someone
said, it's a matter of courtesy to ask the vet whether
(s)he minds. (I did ask a vet once for another list,
and he said he'd rather not. My impression was that he
felt he was too inexperienced at that stage of his
career, so you can't take agreement for granted)
I still think the advertisement calling for
nominations should say you should check with the vet
before making the nomination
Sheila
> Vet contact details are also freely available on the
> RCVS website,
> http://www.rcvs.org.uk , without prior registration.
>
> Matt
>
> On 10/1/06, Su Mitchell <su@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > Given that their details are publicly available by
> looking in a telephone
> > directory, I wouldn't have thought there'd be an
> issue.
> >
> > After all people can usually find out your name
> and address from the
> > electoral roll, and I don't remember giving
> express permission for this.
> >
> > Su
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Date: Sat Sep 30, 2006 5:53 pm
> > From: "Sheila Sowter" sas24@...
> > Subject: Recommended Vet List
> >
> >
> > P12 of the latest issue of the magazine asks for
> Vets' details. It doesn't
> > say you ought to ask your vet if (s)he minds being
> on the list, and might
> > there not be implications under the Data
> Protection Act about how the
> > information is kept, even if the vet has given
> permission.
> > Sheila
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
>
>
The Electoral Roll is no longer that easily avaliable, trust me I need to
get peoples names and addresses all the time at work & I'm not allowed to
have a copy any more & I work for the Council chasing people for public
money!
You can opt out of being on a publishable Electoral Roll now anyway under
Data Prot Legislation, they have recently done a National Electoral Audit,
you may have had a form through the post, and you tick the box to say that
you do not want your details avaliable to the public. Simple :)
L x
>From: "Su Mitchell" <su@...>
>Reply-To: mrc_business@...
>To: <mrc_business@...>
>Subject: RE: [mrc_business] Digest Number 26
>Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 19:03:35 +0100
>
>Given that their details are publicly available by looking in a telephone
>directory, I wouldn't have thought there'd be an issue.
>
>After all people can usually find out your name and address from the
>electoral roll, and I don't remember giving express permission for this.
>
>Su
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Date: Sat Sep 30, 2006 5:53 pm
>From: "Sheila Sowter" sas24@...
>Subject: Recommended Vet List
>
>
>P12 of the latest issue of the magazine asks for Vets' details. It doesn't
>say you ought to ask your vet if (s)he minds being on the list, and might
>there not be implications under the Data Protection Act about how the
>information is kept, even if the vet has given permission.
> Sheila
>
>
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