You never need to share a diagnosis to register

You never need to share a diagnosis to register your interest with IT’S POSSIBLE NOW. The form has no field or question that asks for one, and the privacy notice says we do not ask for or store a diagnosis, a condition, or any medical or health information.

What the form asks instead

The form asks how you would like to be involved, which route interests you, your name, how you prefer to be contacted, an email address or phone number, and the town or city you are based in. It also has two optional boxes: one for anything that would make contact easier, and one for anything else you want to tell us.

None of these questions needs information about your health. What happens when you register your interest lists every field.

Telling us what makes contact easier

You can ask for a different format, more time, someone else in the conversation or a specific contact method. Examples are large print, plain text or easy read, and email, a phone call or a text message.

We treat what you write there as an instruction about how to reach you. We use it for that and nothing else.

If you mention something anyway

Some people write more than they need to. If you mention a health condition in the message box, you can ask us to delete it and we will.

What happens to what you send

The privacy notice answers the questions people ask most:

• Who sees it: the people at the company who run IT’S POSSIBLE NOW, plus ordinary website hosting and email services that receive and store what you send.
• Whether it is shared: we will not pass your details to an employer, a funder, a council or any other organisation without asking you first and getting your answer.
• Why we collect it: to reply to you. We do not sell your details, add you to a marketing list or build a public directory of the people who register.
• Tracking: the site uses no analytics or advertising cookies and does not track you across other websites. Our website host records technical information such as your IP address to serve the page and protect the form from automated abuse.
• Lawful basis: consent. You tick a box before the form will send, and you can withdraw consent at any time.
• How long we keep it: no longer than two years from the day you send the form, and sooner if you ask us to delete it.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law you can ask us to tell you what we hold and give you a copy, correct anything that is wrong, delete what we hold, stop or limit how we use it, send it to you in a portable format, or stop contacting you. We do not charge for this and we answer within one month. To ask, use the contact form and choose “I have a general question”. If you are not satisfied with how we handled your information, the privacy notice explains how to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Other places that do not ask

Difability asks no more. Its Get started page says it is free to get in touch and that you do not need to tell it your diagnosis. Details are on difability.uk.

GOV.UK says you do not need to be diagnosed with a condition to apply for Access to Work. The support is for people whose condition or disability means they need help to do their job or to get to and from work, so the application still asks how your condition affects your work. Check the current rules on the GOV.UK eligibility page. The Access to Work article summarises them.