File Request | Uploading sensitive documents

Sometimes you need a parishioner, volunteer, potential hire, registrant, or contractor to send you a document or documents that contains:

• Personally Identifiable Information (PII) 
• is of a sensitive nature, or
• the documents are rather large to send via email.

In today’s highly hackable environment, sending this type of information via email is not secure or in the case of file size, may not make it through the email server filters. There is a way to have someone send a document to you that is secure, easy, and zero cost to TFCA. It is the File Request function.

With File Request, you can send a link to the folder you want them to send the form back to you. The sender can’t see any of the other files or folders in that folder.

While the process is easy once you learn it, to explain it would make this post far too long. So here are some options for learning about how to do a file request:

YouTube video with an excellent and succinct explanation of why and how to use file request.
Microsoft’s web page on file request.