Data requests for quality assurance, audits, surveys, reports and research projects are all governed by a set of principles that includes:

• Recognition of contributors
• Data and report quality
• Protection of privacy
• Data usage
• Continuous improvement and
• risk management

Data requests will be considered within several broad headings:

• Nature of Request
• Nature of requesting party
• Ethic approval
• Federal privacy regulation
• Secondary release of data and 
• Acknowledgement