01 Dec 2007 10:39 AM:

 

Hello Everyone

Thank you for the replies; our President has again spoken to the Administrators asking for a clearer explanation as to why our Community has to pay €150 to protect our Data when the Spanish Data Protection Act 1999 does that anyway.

Their explanation is this, your Community will be safeguarded against unwanted Mail and your Communities Data is protected.
They went on to say that if a President fails to comply with this they can be fined personally up to €600,000.00!! Our President then said that it seems as though your Company (Servigest) has to pay for a Licence or something to comply with the Data Protection act because you are dealing with Communities and you are passing on this cost to the said Communities and she said it was something like that!!

So we are no further forward at the moment, I am going back at the weekend and we have decided to go and see a Lawyer to get a better understanding of what is going on.

Looking at the replies above and reading that another Administrator has not heard of this it really seems odd doesn't it.

Also looking forward to hearing what Karen's Administrator says about this.

Thanks again
Regards
Sue

 

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29 Nov 2007 12:00 AM:

 

Hello Everyone

My name is Sue and live for most of the year on the Costa Blanca, our Urbanisation is Administrated by a company called Servigest which for the most part do a great job. However we have all received a letter saying that our Communities have to pay €150 each to declare all our information to a third party Company dealing with Data Protection.

My question is this; the Data Protection Act was set up in 1999 and we are now told it is illegal not to present all our details to this third party company for the price of €150 otherwise we could be fined €6,000? Has any other Community Property Owner had to do this on the advice of their Administrators?

I have tried to find out what this is all about on the Net but have only come up with the Law itself which was set up to comply with EU Law.

Regards
Sue

 

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