Privacy Policy for Cohabiting Partners

If your cohabiting partner has debt to the public sector, we may in certain cases investigate your financial circumstances. We may do this when we:

• calculate, based on your household budget, the amount we can deduct from your partner's income
• investigate whether we can collect your partner's tax debt from you
• remit debt
• write off debt
• defer a payment deadline
• enter into a payment plan

If we investigate your financial circumstances, we process:

• ordinary personal data: Your CPR number, name, address, and other contact information, as well as your income information.
• sensitive personal data: To the extent necessary, for example if we are informed that you pay church tax.
• payments to trade unions.

We obtain information about you from sources including yourself, public registers, other public authorities, authorities in other countries, the income register (Indkomstregistret), and financial institutions.

We only collect information when it is necessary for debt collection. You will be informed if we use your information for purposes other than those mentioned here.

You have a number of rights when the Danish Customs and Tax Administration processes personal data about you. You can read more about these rights below. If you wish to exercise your rights, please contact us.

• Right to be informed: The Danish Customs and Tax Administration is required to notify you when the Danish Customs and Tax Administration collects and processes personal data about you.
  
  Among other things, you have the right to be informed about the purpose and the legal basis for the processing. In certain situations, the Danish Customs and Tax Administration may be exempt from the obligation to inform you.
  
  This applies, for example, if you are already familiar with the information, or if your interest in receiving the information is overridden by private or public interests.
  
  
• Right of access: As a general rule, you have the right of access to the personal data that the Danish Customs and Tax Administration is processing
  
  This means that you have the right to obtain confirmation that data about you is being processed, as well as a range of additional information, such as the period for which the data will be stored, or the recipients to whom the personal data is disclosed to.
  
  
• Right to rectification: You have the right to have inaccurate information about you rectified.
  
  
• Right to erasure: In exceptional cases, for example, if the personal data is no longer relevant to us, you have the right to have information about you erased before the time of our general ordinary erasure occurs.
  
  
• Right to restriction of processing: In certain cases, you have the right to have the processing of your personal data restricted.
  
  Where processing have been restricted, such personal data shall with the exception of storage, only be processed with your consent, or if we need to protect another person.
  
  
• Right to object: You have the right to object to our legitimate processing of your personal data, for example on grounds relating to your particular situation.
  
  
• Right to data portability: In certain cases, you have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and to have this personal data transferred from one data controller to another without hindrance.

If you wish to exercise your rights under the GDPR, you can contact the Ministry of Taxation's Data Protection Officer at dpo@sktst.dk.

You can also write a letter to the Data Protection Officer (DPO)
Attention: Data Protection Officer
Skattestyrelsen,
Hannemanns Allé 25,
2300 Copenhagen S

The rules on how we may process your personal data are set out in the Danish Data Protection Act (Consolidated Act No. 289 of March 8, 2024) and in the General Data Protection Regulation (No. 679 of April 27, 2016).

You can find the General Data Protection Regulation under the Danish Data Protection Act, Annex 1.

The Danish Data Protection Act can be found at retsinfo.dk. Search for number 289 and year 2024 to find the Data Protection Act.