A subject access request gives someone the right to their personal data in every record you hold — with one calendar month to respond. SARequest finds it, redacts it, and assembles a complete response pack ready for your sign-off, so a request that used to cost thousands and weeks takes an afternoon to review.
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When a current or former employee — or a customer, or a member of the public — submits a SAR, someone has to drop everything and respond. Get it wrong and it's an ICO complaint or a tribunal exhibit.
There's no time limit on a SAR. Every email, file, chat message and HR record you've ever kept on the person is potentially in scope — scattered across every system you run.
Other people's data has to be removed before disclosure. A black box over text that's still copyable underneath is a data breach — and one of the most common ways SARs go wrong.
One calendar month to respond. Miss it and you're exposed — yet nearly half of organisations do, because manual searching and redaction simply takes too long.
Every document — pulled from your systems or scanned in — is screened automatically: what's relevant, what needs blacking out, what can be withheld. Nothing is sent until you've signed it off.
Record the request, start the statutory clock, and confirm the requester's identity — the safeguard that stops data going to the wrong person.
Connect your systems once. SARequest searches everything you've connected for records relating to the individual, however far back they go — and scanned paper records can be uploaded and made searchable too.
Third-party details are redacted and exemptions flagged for your review — with the reasoning shown, so you decide what stands.
Send a clean response pack by secure link, with a full audit trail evidencing a reasonable and proportionate search.
SARequest works on your electronic records. Paper files remain your responsibility to locate — but once scanned and uploaded, they're searched and redacted like everything else.
Microsoft 365 first — Outlook, Teams, OneDrive and SharePoint in one connection. On the roadmap, shaped by pilot demand: Slack, UK HR systems (BreatheHR, PeopleHR, BambooHR), Xero, and more.
Scanned paper records, exports from systems we don't connect to yet, or one-off files — drop them in and they become searchable and redactable alongside your electronic records. A checklist step records what offline sources you've checked.
A guided workflow for footage requests: checks your retention window, prompts the requester for dates and locations, and handles third-party face and number-plate blurring through a specialist redaction engine before disclosure.
Free tool. Enter the date you received the request and get your statutory deadline — including how the new "stop the clock" rules can affect it.
A contested employee SAR costs £4,000–7,500 to handle by hand. SARequest is a fraction of that — every month, for as many requests as you receive.
You'd be connecting us to your most sensitive data, often during a dispute. That's why security isn't a feature here — it's the foundation.
Join the founding pilot. Tell us how you handle SARs today, and help shape the tool that makes the next one painless.
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