If you see information from the public registers about the debtor in your case, these are the terms that apply. They set out what you may use the information for, what you may not, and how the source must be credited if you reproduce it onwards. This is not a data processing agreement — we obtain the registers on our own initiative, and each of us is a controller in our own right.
§ 1
What this document covers
Rieck holds a copy of public property and business registers. Where the information concerns the debtor in one of the client’s cases, the client can see it in the portal. This document sets the terms for that — what the client may use the information for, and what the client may not.
The document is an addendum to the terms of business and applies from the moment the client first gains access to the information. In the event of conflict, the terms of business prevail, except on matters concerning register data, which are settled here.
How we process the information — where it comes from, why we are allowed to hold it, and what the data subjects can require — is set out in the privacy policy for register data. That one is written for the people the information is about; this one is written for the client.
§ 2
The allocation of roles
Each party is an independent data controller. No joint controllership under article 26 of the GDPR has been established, and neither party processes the register information on the other’s behalf.
Rieck is the controller for obtaining the information from the authorities, for collating it and for disclosing it to the client. The client is the controller for its own processing of the information after receipt — including for having a basis for the use the client makes of it.
§ 3
What the client gains access to
The client sees information about the debtor in the client’s own case: name, address and date of birth as registered, which properties the debtor owns and in what share, the most recent transaction and public assessment, and which companies the debtor is registered as taking part in, and in what capacity. Where the debtor owns a property jointly with others, the co-owner’s name and share are shown.
Access is tied to the case. The client cannot search the copy independently, cannot extract from it, and cannot obtain information about people the client has no case against.
The following is not part of what the client gains access to:
CPR numbers (Danish civil registration numbers). They are not made available to private undertakings by the registers, and the ones we hold in the case are not passed on to the client.
Land registry information. We look up the Danish land registry where a case calls for it, but the result is our own working basis and is not passed on to the client.
Information from the Danish Business Authority’s register of beneficial owners. Legal owners and management as shown in CVR are a different matter and may be included.
Protected name and address data. It is not made available to private undertakings, and we do not hold it.
§ 4
What the client may use the information for
The client may use the information solely to pursue its own claim in the case the information is shown in:
to establish that the claim is directed at the right person,
to assess whether there are assets to recover from,
to decide how the case should proceed, including whether to take legal steps.
Any other purpose requires the client’s own basis for processing and is not covered by these terms.
§ 5
What the client may not do
The client may not use the information for:
marketing or other approaches to the data subjects unrelated to the case,
assessing the financial standing or creditworthiness of natural persons,
publication, resale or disclosure to third parties,
training models or building the client’s own register of persons or properties,
automated decisions about natural persons, including scoring, ranking or risk flagging,
combining it with the client’s other data beyond what the case requires.
The client may, however, show the information to its own lawyer or adviser in the case and to authorities and courts where the client is required to do so, or where it is necessary in order to pursue the claim. The recipient is bound by the same restrictions.
§ 6
Attribution
The information originates in basic data made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). The licence requires the source to be credited — including where the information is reproduced onwards.
If the client reproduces the information anywhere others than the client’s own users can see it — in a report, a recommendation, a printout or an interface of the client’s own — the client must credit the source. The attribution must name the register or the authority, the licence with a link to the licence text, the fact that the material has been adapted, and when the information was retrieved.
The client may use the following wording, adapted to the information actually shown:
Who must be credited depends on the register. Ejerfortegnelsen and CVR are credited by the name of the register; Matriklen (the cadastre) and the property location register by Geodatastyrelsen; Danmarks Adresseregister by Klimadatastyrelsen; the property assessment by Vurderingsstyrelsen. A single blanket credit — "Source: Datafordeleren" — is not sufficient for the registers that require a named recipient.
The client must not present the information as the client’s own, must not remove attributions from material the client receives, and must not give the impression that the authorities stand behind the client’s product or assessment. The licence terminates automatically for anyone who fails to comply with the attribution requirement.
§ 7
Accuracy of the information
The information is reproduced as it appears in the registers at the time of the most recent update. We refresh the copy every night. Rieck warrants that it reproduces the content of the registers correctly, but not the accuracy of the registers themselves.
Matching a person in the property register with a person in the business register is Rieck’s own inference. It appears in no register, and it is only made where name and address agree, or where the name is unique in both registers.
The client should be aware that a piece of information may have changed at source since the update. Where the client is to take a decision of material significance for a natural person — including applying for attachment or compulsory sale — the information must be checked against the source first.
§ 8
The client’s own obligations
The client is the controller for its own processing after receipt and warrants that it has a basis for it. The client meets its own information obligation towards the data subjects to the extent that obligation rests with the client.
The client erases the information once it is no longer necessary for the case, and protects it in the meantime with measures appropriate to its nature — it concerns identifiable people’s property and finances.
§ 9
The rights of the data subjects
Each party answers requests for access, rectification, erasure, restriction and objection concerning its own processing. Where a party receives a request concerning the other’s processing, it is passed on without undue delay.
If a data subject objects to Rieck and we uphold the objection, the information ceases to be available in the portal. The client is notified and must then assess its own continued processing of what the client has already seen.
If a piece of information is wrong in the register, it must be corrected at source. If it is the matching described in § 7 that is wrong, we correct it.
§ 10
Personal data breaches
Each party notifies breaches concerning its own processing. Where a party establishes a breach that also affects the other’s processing, the other party is informed without undue delay and no later than 24 hours after it was established — with the information needed for that party to meet its own 72-hour deadline.
§ 11
Logging
Rieck logs when register information has been shown in a case, and for which user. The log is used to be able to document to authorities and to the data subjects that the disclosure was lawful and tied to a specific case. The client accepts that this logging takes place.
§ 12
Breach and termination
On reasonable suspicion that the information is being used contrary to § 4 or § 5, Rieck may close the client’s access to register information without notice. We tell the client why, and reopen access once the matter has been put right.
If the relationship ends, access falls away. The client may keep the information that forms part of the documentation for a specific case for as long as the client is required or entitled to retain the case, and erases other copies. The restrictions in § 4, § 5 and § 6 continue to apply after termination for as long as the client holds the information.
This document was last updated on 16 August 2026.
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