A Subject Access Request (SAR) is a formal legal request that asks any UK organisation to disclose the personal data it holds about you — under Article 15 of the UK GDPR. People use one to see what a bank, landlord, insurer, employer or council actually has on file. Read the ICO's own guidance on the right of access for the full detail.
Download both files below.
Open any AI assistant (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or similar) and upload or paste in the prompt file, along with the template.
Answer its questions — who you're writing to, what you're after — and it will produce a finished, ready-to-send letter in both email and postal versions.
A plain, sector-agnostic starting point — fill in the brackets yourself. A draft, not a finished legal document; please review and personalise before sending.
[Your name] [Your address] [Date] [Organisation name] [Organisation address, or "Data Protection Officer" if address unknown] Dear Data Protection Team, Subject Access Request — Article 15 UK GDPR I am writing to request a copy of the personal data you hold about me, in accordance with my right of access under Article 15 of the UK General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018. Please provide a copy of the following categories of data: - [Category 1 — e.g. "account records"] - [Category 2 — e.g. "correspondence"] - [Category 3 — add or remove as needed] [Optional] Please limit this to the period [start date] to [end date]. Please confirm receipt of this request. Under UK GDPR you are required to respond within one calendar month of receipt. If any of the requested data is not held, please confirm this explicitly rather than omitting it from your response. Please provide this information in a searchable PDF format and by email or post, rather than via an online portal. I am happy to provide proof of identity if required. Yours faithfully, [Your name] [Your email address] — full version, with the free-of-charge and portal-related notes, in the download —
Templates are common. This isn't one — it's a prompt that turns any major AI assistant into an interviewer, asking what it needs to know and producing a finished, ready-to-send letter (email and post versions) alongside the template above.
Download prompt ↓You can ask the AI for guidance or advice, but remember to double check everything you're told if you intend to rely on it.
No login. No cookies. No data collected. This page keeps nothing about you — the two files above are the entire service. The only thing measured is an anonymous, cookie-free visit count (via Plausible), which cannot identify you.
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