How secure is University of Leicester Filedrop?

All files are transferred across the network securely encrypted.

If you are sending personal or confidential data, tick "Encrypt every file" when creating a new drop-off. Then the passphrase you enter must be used when downloading the drop-off. The passphrase is not stored on University of Leicester Filedrop, and cannot be recovered if lost. No one can access the files without it.

All files uploaded and temporarily stored on University of Leicester Filedrop are held on equipment owned and operated at the University's own Data Centre.

All data is subject to the Data Protection regulations and laws of the University and the country.

University of Leicester Filedrop is in no way a "cloud" service. Everything is stored (even temporarily) on equipment directly owned by the University, and managed by its own IT staff.

All access to data is very tightly and strictly controlled by the University. All accesses to data on University of Leicester Filedrop are logged and can be easily checked if you are ever concerned that a 3rd party might have gained access to your data.

Furthermore, uploaded data is only held on University of Leicester Filedrop for a maximum of 14 days, after which time it is automatically deleted..

Retrieval of a drop-off by a recipient can only be done with both the drop-off's Claim ID and Passcode.
When dropping off files, you can choose not to send either or both of these to the recipient automatically: you would then need to send that information by hand yourself.