Non-disclosure of personal data

Everyone has the right to prohibit the disclosure of their data for the purposes of direct marketing, public registers and genealogical research and for the purpose of updating a customer register or other similar register. Additionally, everyone has the right to prohibit the disclosure of their contact information as part of a contact information or address service or other similar data service.

In total, the following can be entered into the Population Information System for one person:

• non-disclosure for direct marketing purposes
• non-disclosure of contact information
• non-disclosure of customer register update
• non-disclosure for genealogical research purposes
• non-disclosure for public registers

Do as follows

You can prohibit the disclosure of data on the Suomi.fi Web Service's Personal Data page. 

Are you unable to attend to the matter online?

You can also call to our customer servie +358 295 535 690 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. 

You can also send us a form or a free form letter 

• by e-mail as a security message at https://turvaviesti.dvv.fi/ (select Population data as the recipient) 
• by mail to any of our service locations. You can find postal addresses on the Service locations page. 

Do you want to notify the non-disclosures for a minor child? 

Guardians can notify the non-disclosures for a minor child by sending a form or a free-form letter

• by e-mail as a security message at https://turvaviesti.dvv.fi/ (select Population data as the recipient) 
• by mail to any of our service locations. You can find postal addresses on the Service locations page. 

You cannot make a ban on behalf of another person in the Suomi.fi service or by phone.

Please note the following: 

• You cannot submit telemarketing restrictions to the Population Information System, as no phone numbers are stored in the system.
• The non-disclosures are personal in nature and valid until further notice, which means that they do not need to be renewed, for example, when you are moving house.
• You can check your active non-disclosures and remove unnecessary ones on the Suomi.fi Web Service’s Personal Data Page or by contacting the Digital and Population Services Agency.

For more information on the disclosure and other processing of data, please see the Privacy Statements.

Non-disclosure for personal safety reasons

A non-disclosure for personal safety reasons is an exceptional measure that restricts the disclosure of your address information from the Population Information System. When you have a non-disclosure for personal safety reasons, information about your address and municipality of residence can only be disclosed to authorities that may process information subject to the non-disclosure. More information about the non-disclosure for personal safety reasons.