Estate Agents Can Only Request For Contact Details
There are several brokers who disrupt the law exclusively by demanding the overview of certain information, that are privacy-sensitive, from the interested parties. This concerns bank statements, pay slips, employers’ statements, pension overviews as well as extracts from population register. According to the famous “Dutch Data Protection Authority”, the intermediaries and brokers aren’t allowed to gain information from individuals who sign up for viewing the rented houses. The spokesman, Inger Sanders, says that, "In the phase of viewing a property, the broker may only ask for contact details. This data may require the broker to make an appointment for a viewing or to change it ''. She further continues, '' The broker may not ask for capital, debts, nationality, race or citizen service number ''. Brokers Not Updated Not all the brokers are yet aware of the law and thus, they request for privacy-sensitive information and that too from the p...