REFUND OF EARNEST MONEY LETTER
Date: __________
To __________, __________, from __________, __________.
Property: __________ (__________), __________. Transaction reference: __________.
Earnest money originally received: __________.
REFUND
Reason: __________. Details: __________.
Refund amount: __________. Deduction status: __________.
Refund mode: __________. Reference: __________. Refund date: __________.
EFFECT
Settlement effect: __________.
This letter records the return of earnest money. It does not by itself cancel a registered conveyance or waive claims beyond the scope stated above.
PERSONAL DATA NOTICE
This notice is given under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023.
Personal data in this document is collected only to record and evidence refund of earnest or token money on the cancelled property transaction, communicate about that purpose, verify expressly supplied transaction information, and retain an evidentiary record.
The record will be held by __________ and may be shown only to the buyer, seller, promoter/developer, authorised broker, advocate, lender, escrow holder, tax adviser, registering authority or other person directly involved in the stated cancellation, refund or settlement.
If the transaction is abandoned without a completed settlement, personal data will be retained for 90 days from that decision and then erased. If a cancellation, refund or settlement is completed, the record will be retained for that matter plus 12 months, except where a statute requires a longer named retention period.
A person named in this document may withdraw consent for future consent-based processing, request correction or erasure when the stated purpose has ended, or raise a grievance by writing to __________. The record-holder should acknowledge and respond within 30 days.
Data minimisation: this document does not collect a full Aadhaar number, an Aadhaar-card copy, a password or bank credentials, and none should be written into it. Use only transaction references and identity particulars genuinely required for the stated purpose.
Personal-data instruction: __________.
Record-holder: __________
SIGNATURE
Refunding party: __________