Confidentiality of personal data

You can request confidentiality if you do not want public bodies to be able to access your personal data from the Basic Register of Persons (BRP). This is also known as a restriction on the disclosure of data.

 
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Your personal data may be requested by organisations carrying out statutory duties. For example, the Tax and Customs Administration, the UWV, health insurers or pension funds.
Other organisations that may use your personal data:

  • lawyers, provided they can demonstrate that they need the data for legal proceedings
  • non-commercial organisations, such as sports and music clubs
  • organisations with a social role, for example in the fields of care for the elderly, youth welfare or care for people with disabilities
  • the Interdenominational Membership Records Foundation (SILA), which maintains membership records for religious communities

No data is passed on to private individuals or commercial organisations

Your personal data will never be disclosed to the following parties without your written consent:

  • commercial organisations
  • private individuals (not even for a reunion, for example)

More information

Please see the government website for further information ‘Who can access my data from the Basic Registration System (BRP)’.

If you do not want your personal data to be disclosed to public bodies, you can ask the local authority to keep your personal data confidential. This is known as a restriction on disclosure. The local authority will then only disclose your data to government bodies that require it to carry out their statutory duties. You cannot prevent this.

If you are registered as a resident in the municipality of Apeldoorn, you can apply for or lift your confidentiality in the following ways.

  • Children aged 16 and over must apply for or lift confidentiality themselves.
  • If you are under guardianship, your guardian can submit a request on your behalf to have the confidentiality order imposed or lifted.

Online

Apply for or cancel directly online using the ‘Apply’ button above. (Using DigiD).

In writing

You can also submit a request in writing. Please send it to PO Box 9033, 7300 ES Apeldoorn, enclosing the following:

Desk

You can submit your request for confidentiality or its revocation in person, by appointment, at the reception desk in the town hall.
You must bring: a valid form of identification.