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class="content-block block-d0ae2041 text"><div class=""><div><div class="text" id="block-d0ae2041-1"><p>Data providers can give individuals access to the supplied (original) location information (locality, latitude-longitude coordinates and grid reference) of records of specific sensitive species in specific data resources.</p> <p>The supplied location (locality, latitude-longitude coordinates and grid reference) is only be available in the downloads (both the simple and full Darwin core formats); the location information on the occurrence record page will remain the generalised values, regardless of the level of access.</p> <p><a href="https://docs.nbnatlas.org/how-to-request-access-to-sensitive-species-records/">As a data user, how do I request enhanced access to sensitive species records?</a></p> <p><a href="https://docs.nbnatlas.org/sensitive-species-2/enhanced-access-sensitive-species-records/how-to-allow-individuals-enhanced-access-to-sensitive-species/">As a data provider, how 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