House rules

How we expect people to use and behave on the site

Violation of any of the below rules is likely to lead to the suspension of your account, and you will no longer be able to make requests or updates on Imamo pravo znati.

In some cases, breaking these rules could lead to legal action being taken against you by the authorities or an aggrieved party.

Additionally, breaches often take significant amounts of volunteer time to deal with and risk our ability to run the service.

• Use Imamo pravo znati only to request specific information, not for general correspondence with public authorities, and certainly not for correspondence about your own personal circumstances.
• Do not include potentially defamatory/potential libellous comments (such as allegations) in your requests and annotations.
• Do not post information that is unlawful, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, discriminatory or profane
• Do not use Imamo pravo znati to request your personal information from authorities. You should request this information privately via a Subject Access request, a procedure that is distinct from a Freedom of Information request. See advice on this from the Information Commissioner’s Office.
• Keep messages sent via our service concise and tightly focused on the subject of the request for information. Heed our advice on making responsible and effective requests.
• Do not try to impersonate someone else.
• Do not use any language likely to offend in your requests and annotations.
• No spamming.
• Requests must be made in mixed case letters, i.e. not all in capitals and not all in lowercase (this is automatically enforced by the software that Imamo pravo znati runs on).
• Do not make vexatious requests (requests with no serious purpose, or which are intended to disrupt the operation of a public body). The ICO has guidance on vexatious requests here.
• Do not use our service to request other people’s personal information and do not include such information in requests, annotations or follow-ups, unless it is fair to do so.
• Do not seek to evade the actions of site administrators by, for example, creating new accounts to evade a ban, or a rate-limiting cap, or by republishing material which you know has been removed by moderators.

By breaking the rules above, you risk being banned from using the site, and/or your requests/annotations being removed. In cases where it’s clear that your intentions are not malicious, we will contact you first so that we can give advice on how better to use the service.