Inaccurate contact details of companies or associations
You can file a rectification request with the Finnish Patent and Registration Office (PRH) if an inaccurate contact detail has been registered for a company or an association. The PRH can automatically remove a mailing or street address or another contact detail from the Finnish Business Information System if the contact detail is decidedly inaccurate.
You can file a rectification request in the following situations:
- Your address or another contact detail (such as your phone number or e-mail address) has been registered for a company or an association in which you do not hold a position of responsibility.
- A contact detail registered for a company or an association is on other grounds decidedly incorrect. For example, you own a property, and the company is not located on your property.
Filing the rectification request is free of charge.
If the rectification request concerns a person’s home address registered in the Finnish Population Information System, we will check the address against the information in the system.
Please note: we will not remove the address or another contact detail from the register if you hold a position of responsibility in the company or association in question. For example, a board member may be a person in a position of responsibility.
How to file the rectification request
File the rectification request
- either on our online form or
- as a free-form application, which you can send by post.
The request must include the following details:
- Your name and personal identity code for checking the details if you send the request by post
- Name and Business ID of the company or association
- Address or another contact detail that has erroneously been registered for the company or association
- Report explaining the reasons why the contact detail is decidedly inaccurate if the rectification request does not concern a person’s home address registered in the Finnish Population Information System
- Email address to which we will send the information on the processing of the rectification request
To log in to the online form, you need to have a Finnish personal identity code and either personal internet banking codes, a mobile certificate, or an electronic identity card (HST card).
Alternatively, you can send the request by post to the following address:
PRH
Legal Unit
FI-00091 PRH, Finland
Monitor the progress of your rectification request
After we have removed the inaccurate contact detail from the details of the company or association, we will send a confirmation to the email address you have given.
See the legislation for more information
Removing inaccurate contact details of companies or associations is based on section 17, subsection 3 of the Finnish Business Information Act.