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We give away our personal information so freely these days that it’s worth being cautions whenever we are asked to do it again.
On the face of it 1Form seems to allow prospective tenants to give all their relevant details once and then not have to do it every time they apply for a tenancy (handy, if you miss out a couple of times just becasue someone else beats you to it).
The use of information advisory on the website does say your information will be given to third parties – which in the case of Real Estate agents is pretty obvious but who else gets it? This is what it says – and the last line is relevant:
1form collects the personal information you provide via this Application System and discloses it to relevant real estate agent(s) and/or property manager(s) (or their integration service provider) for the purpose of your current and future rental property applications or to property service providers for verification.
1form may also use your personal information to promote the services of 1form (including its related parties) and selected third parties. 1form’s Privacy Policy further explains how 1form collects, uses and discloses personal information and how to access, correct or complain about the handling of personal information.
If you request connection or other property services via 1form, then we disclose your personal information to retailers, service providers, real estate agents and property managers for the purpose of your requested services. 1form has contractual license obligations with trusted strategic partners related to limited personal data.
Those partners are prohibited from using personal data for direct marketing without consent.
Should you be concerned? This is the first complaint we’ve had but then, as I said, we’ve all become a bit casual about who has our personal information and how they use it.
I reckon the convenience factor outweigh the privacy issues … but then I’d never heard of 1Form until this post so what do I know?