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Do I need to give my tenant a privacy notice?

Yes. Taking a tenant’s identity documents, referencing them and holding their data makes you a data controller under UK GDPR, and a privacy notice is how you meet the duty to tell them what you hold and why.

The duty most landlords have never heard of

Right to Rent checks, referencing, bank details, a guarantor’s finances. That is a significant amount of personal data about several people, and the obligations attach to you whether or not you have thought about them.

What the notice covers

What you hold, why you hold it, how long you keep it, who you share it with, and what rights the tenant has over it. The referencing agency and the deposit scheme are both third parties you share with.

Getting it out

Build it and send it with the move-in pack, where it is logged like every other document. The point at which you are collecting the most data is the point the notice is supposed to arrive.

Why it is worth two minutes

This is a duty with a regulator attached, and it is one of the few where doing it properly costs nothing at all.

Where this lives

Tenant privacy.

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