---
title: Submit a privacy assessment request
description: Submit a privacy assessment request for yourself or on behalf of another user to seek services from the legal department.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/employee-service-management/legal-simple-privacy/submit-legal-privacy-assessment-request.html
release: australia
product: Legal Simple Privacy
classification: legal-simple-privacy
topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-05-19"
reading_time_minutes: 1
breadcrumb: [Requests, Legal Simple Privacy, Legal Service Delivery Practice Applications, Legal Service Delivery, Legal and Contract Operations, Employee Service Management]
---

# Submit a privacy assessment request

Submit a privacy assessment request for yourself or on behalf of another user to seek services from the legal department.

## Before you begin

Role required: sn\_lg\_ops.legal\_user

## About this task

If you have the Legal Virtual Agent Conversations application installed on your instance, you can submit a privacy assessment request through the Virtual Agent chat. For more information, see [Legal Virtual Agent Conversations](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/legal-service-delivery/legal-va-conversations.md).

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **All** > **Employee Center**.

    **Note:** If you're using Legal Service Portal, you can submit a legal request by navigating to the Legal Service Portal and selecting a request from the **Service Catalog**.

2.  Navigate to **Help center** > **Legal services**.

3.  Select **Privacy and Data** category.

4.  Select **Privacy Assessment**.

5.  On the Privacy Assessment form, provide a description of the project or initiative for which you need the privacy assessment and the project sponsor.

6.  Indicate whether personal data is involved in the **Is personal data involved?** field.

7.  If you have selected **Yes** to indicate that personal data is involved, fill in the details for additional fields as following.

8.  Select **Submit**.


## Result

-   A privacy assessment request is created in the New state.

-   The request is assigned to a group or user in the legal department based on the assignment rule set in the associated practice area. For more information, see [Assignment rule to automatically assign legal requests or matters](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/legal-request-management/create-assignment-rules-intake-form.md).
-   If the administrator has configured notifications, you receive notifications about the progress of the request.

**Parent Topic:**[Privacy assessment requests](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/legal-simple-privacy/privacy-assessment-requests.md)

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[Assign a privacy assessment request]()

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