If you are looking for your relatives, friends you have not seen for a long time, acquaintances, fellows just to get in contact with them (without any legal aspects) i.e. you only want to talk with them again, or you wish to hear from them, you can choose between two types of service as follows:
- our office – as the organ of registration – finds the person indicated by you, and asks for his/her written agreement to make his/her name and address information available to you (making contact)
- our office – as the organ of registration - notifies the person to contact you directly by the given address or phone number, if he/she wants to make contact with you (notification, message delivery).
Who can apply for data provision?
- individuals
- legal entities and entities without legal personality
Where to apply for contact making procedure?
You can send your application for making contact by mail to the following address:
Central Office for Administrative and Electronic Public Services
H-1450 Budapest, Pf. 81.
or
it may be submitted in person at the Central Document Service Centre (Front Office):
Budapest, XIII. kerület Visegrádi utca 110-112.
Electronic administration
It is not possible to submit applications electronically.
Necessary documents
The application must contain the following information:
- the applicant’s personal data (surname and forename, address, registered office, branch, other details: phone number)
- the natural personal identification data suitable for identification of the person concerned :
- surname and forename
- place and date of birth
- mother’s maiden name
or
- surname and forename
- the full address of the person concerned (settlement, public domain, number of the house) known by the applicant
- the applicant’s declaration on requiring either
- making personal contact, or
- notification, message delivery
If you apply for notification or message delivery, please draw up your message to be forwarded in a couple of sentences stating your contact details as well (address, phone number, e-mail).
Warning! The register of personal data and address of citizens does not include familial relationships, so we can search the person concerned (and thus make contact) only in case the applicant communicates in his/her application also at least one of the natural personal identification data of the person concerned in addition to his/her name.
Administration costs
Making Individual contact (for 100 or less citizens)
An administrative service fee must be paid for following the procedure of making individual contact
- in case of making contact concerning from 1 up to 5 persons’ data the administrative service fee is HUF 3500
- in case of making contact concerning more than 5 persons’ data the amount of the administration service fee shall be equal to the product (of multiplication) of the concerned persons’ number and the rate,
Rate of the administration service fee is HUF 730 per item
In case of applications submitted from abroad or through the Hungarian foreign missions accredited to the country of the applicant’s residence the administation service fee must be paid as a consular fee at the competent Hungarian foreign mission after filling out the application.
The administrative service fee must be paid even if
- the person concerned is not recorded in the register or the person cannot be identified individually based on the data provided by the applicant.
- the person concerned does not respond to the call of contact making purposes of the authority, does not contribute to the data provision, does not accept the notification sent by mail to him/her, or the notification had been returned to the competent authority after completion of the mail service with the remark “has not been searched”,
- despite of the call of the authority the completed service had not been accepted by the applicant
Administration procedure time
The administration procedure time is 30 days which may be extended only on justified grounds once for a maximum of 30 days before its expiry.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who can access to our data?
Those individuals, legal entities and entities without legal personality, who properly justify the purpose and the legal title of their data application use.
What do we need to do if we want to obtain any kind of information about somebody’s personal data?
An application must be submitted, which should include the following:
- the applicant’s data, the customer’s and his/her representative’s name, address, registered seat, branch
- exact list of the required data
- purpose of the data use
- the public document verifying the legal title of the data use (the public document must verify the fact and event that justifies the data use connection which exists or existed between the person concerned and the applicant).
- the natural personal identification data appropriate for identification of the person concerned (surname and forename, place and date of birth, mother’s name) or the address known by the applicant
- verification of the applicant's representative eligibility, if he/she acts on behalf of somebody else
- if you have not got any legal relationship with the person concerned, but if you just want to hear about him/her, to talk with him/her or to send a message to him/her, it must be communicated as well.