A digital multifunction peripheral provided with a scanner portion, an operation portion, an image forming portion, a device control portion, a fax modem, a communications portion, a management portion, and a hard disk is connected to a server apparatus via an external network. A third party server processes a query q on outsourced data sets S1,. The health related data is transmitted from the WWD to a server using standard internet protocols. The spool section spools the pieces of image data.