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Privacy statement for Cohabitation Affairs
The Digital and Population Data Services Agency maintains the Register of Cohabitation Affairs, in which the property separation deeds and the contracts or other documents concerning compensation laid down in the Act on the Dissolution of the Household of Cohabiting Partners are recorded. The purpose of the register is to enforce the legal effects of the documents and make the information public.
The provisions laid down in section 16 of the Act on the Openness of Government Activities are applied to dis-closures of the information contained in the register. However, everyone has the right to receive a copy or a printout of the registered information concerning a certain person.
The Register of Cohabitation Affairs
Digital and Population Data Services Agency
Lintulahdenkuja 2, 00530 Helsinki
PL 123, 00531 Helsinki
Telephone (switchboard) 02 9553 6000, email kirjaamo(a)dvv.fi
Contact person in register-related matters
Julia Kokora, Project Manager
Telephone (switchboard) 02 9553 6000, email kirjaamo(a)dvv.fi
Telephone (switchboard) 02 9553 6000, [email protected]
The register is maintained for the submittal of documents for registration or for the enforcement of legal ef-fects related to registration and for the publication of the data.
Data on documents referred to in Section 11 of the Act on the Dissolution of the Household of Cohabiting Part-ners is stored in the Register of Cohabitation Affairs: 1) property separation deed 2) contract or other document concerning compensation
The personal data contained in the Register of Cohabitation Affairs is processed on the basis of Article 6 of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation. Personal data is processed as part of the provision of the Digital and Population Data Services Agency’s statutory services. The provisions on the Register of Cohabitation Affairs are laid down in the Act on Certain Person Registers of the Digital and Population Data Services Agency.
As a rule, the data entered in the register will be permanently stored (Laki Digi- ja väestötietoviraston eräistä henkilörekistereistä)
The following information is recorded in the register:
- name and personal identity code of the cohabiting partners, or in the absence of a personal identity code, date of birth;
- the municipality or state of residence of the cohabiting partners;
- type and date of the document;
- date of receipt of the notification; and
- the name of the office of the Digital and Population Data Services Agency, date of registration of the docu-ment and the identifying data for the case.
In addition, the information on the name change for the cohabiting partner, received from the Population In-formation System, is recorded in the register.
Based on the possibility of notification provided for in the law, information is received from private persons. The notification may be submitted to the Register of Cohabitation Affairs by the cohabiting partner or fiancé(e). As for the property separation deed, the notification may also be submitted by heirs.
The register data is public. A permission to disclose the data by means of a technical connection may be granted to state or municipal authorities, communities or own-account workers who constantly require register data for an acceptable purpose in their operations.
No personal data is transferred outside the EU or the EEA.
The data material has been protected by means of access management and it can be accessed only from the internal network of the central government. In addition, personal data is protected by means of physical access control, by monitoring the use of personal data and through instructions provided for the processing of personal data.
No automated decision-making or profiling is performed on the basis of the data.
Right of inspection
You have the right to request that the controller provides you with access to the data on you, so that you can check the information that is kept on you. The request must be submitted in writing to Digital and Population Data Services Agency’s registry office. Be prepared to prove your identity.
You will receive the information you need within a month of the time your request was registered. However, for justified reasons the Digital and Population Data Services Agency can extend the aforementioned one-month timeline by two months at the most. In this case you will receive a notification.
Right to demand data correction
You have the right to ask for your personal data to be corrected. Submit a written request to the contact per-son of the register (section Controller and contact persons). In the request for correction, mention the data that should be rectified and the details of the change or the information that should be added to the register. Your identity will be verified in connection with the request.
Limitations to the rights of the data subject with regard to the processing of personal data
Most of the services provided by the Digital and Population Data Services Agency are based on compliance with a statutory obligation or the use of public powers. In those cases, you do not have the right to demand the dele-tion of your data or its transfer to another system.
The data subject has the right to lodge a complaint to the supervisory authority on the processing of their personal data.
Additional information by the Office of the Data Protection Ombudsman.
- Individuals
- Marriage
- Examination of impediments to marriage
- Marriage ceremony
- Prenuptial agreement
- Notification of a marriage concluded abroad
- Divorce granted abroad
- Registration of the act applicable to the matrimonial property regime
- Registration of a deed of division of property
- Dissolution of cohabitation
- Removal of marital rights to property
- Extracts issued of the register on the right to officiate at weddings
- Having or adopting a child
- Names
- Moving
- Elections and Right to vote
- Suomi.fi Web Service
- Citizen Certificate and electronic identity
- Guardianship
- Continuing power of attorney
- Appointment of a guardian
- Duties of the guardian
- Guardianship for a minor
- Who can act as a guardian?
- Actions that require the permission of the guardianship authority
- Appointing a substitute guardian
- Termination of guardianship
- Giving up the guardian’s task
- Guardianship authority's means of supervision
- Looking after the interests of an absent person or the future owner of the property
- Restrictions to competency and declaration of incompetence
- Extracts from the Register of Guardianship Affairs
- Certificates from the Population Information System
- Population information in the Population Information System
- Registration of a gift notification
- Services of notary public
- Certification of purchase
- Citizens’ initiative
- Death and estate inventory
- Living abroad
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- Registration of citizenship
- Divorce granted abroad
- Death abroad
- Registration of a child born abroad
- Registration of a name change performed abroad
- Notification of a marriage concluded abroad
- Registration of the act applicable to the matrimonial property regime
- Legalisation of foreign documents
- Notification of retaining Finnish citizenship
- Moving to Finland
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