Privacy and cookies

1. Who we are

The data controller responsible for your personal data is Brit-Magyar Kft., trading as Budapest Property Rentals, tax number 21509652-2-42, of Lőrinc pap tér, 1088 Budapest, Hungary.

For any question about your data, email manager@budapestpropertyrentals.com or call +36 70 394 2691.

2. What we collect

When you enquire about or rent an apartment, we may hold:

• your name
• your email address
• your postal address
• your phone number
• your accommodation requirements, such as dates, number of people and budget
• if you rent, the details your tenancy agreement records: your ID card or passport number, your home address if different, and your mother’s maiden name
• if you ask for help with a visa, the documents and details needed for the application

Our website also collects some technical information automatically; see Cookies and statistics.

3. How we use it, and on what legal basis

What we do	Legal basis under the GDPR
Answer your enquiry and suggest apartments	Steps you ask us to take before entering a contract
Prepare and manage your tenancy contract, rent and deposit	Performance of a contract
Provide the residency document and contract copy your university or employer needs, and help with a visa application if you ask	Performance of a contract, at your request
Keep accounting and tax records	Legal obligation
Send you occasional emails about our apartments	Your consent, which you can withdraw at any time using the unsubscribe link or by emailing us
Measure how the website is used, to improve it	Your consent, given through the cookie banner

We do not make decisions about you by automated means, and we do not profile you.

4. Who we share it with

We will never sell your data. We share it only with:

• Our website managers, Seren Web (serenweb.com), who host and maintain this website and, if you have agreed to receive them, send our emails about our apartments.
• Google, which provides website statistics (Google Analytics) and the fonts used on this website.
• Public authorities, such as the immigration authority when you ask us to help with a visa, or any authority that legally requires us to share data.

These providers may only use your data to provide their service to us.

5. Cookies and statistics

Cookies are small files a website stores in your browser. We use Google Analytics cookies to see, in aggregate, how visitors use the website: which pages are visited, for how long and from what kind of device. We only set them if you accept them in the cookie banner, and you can change your choice at any time with the Cookie settings link at the bottom of every page. If you reject them, Google Analytics is not loaded at all.

Cookie	Provider	Purpose	Expires
_ga	Google Analytics	Distinguishes visitors	2 years
_ga_LSHE9FW6ND	Google Analytics	Keeps track of your visit	2 years

When you visit, our website managers also record technical information for security and to keep the website working: your IP address, browser type and version, time zone, operating system, the pages you visit and when, page response times and errors.

6. Where your data is stored

We store your data within the European Economic Area wherever possible. Some of our providers, such as Google, may process data outside it, in particular in the United States. Where that happens, the transfer is protected by safeguards the GDPR recognises, such as the EU–US Data Privacy Framework or the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses.

7. How long we keep it

• Enquiries that don’t lead to a tenancy: 12 months after our last contact.
• Tenancy agreements, payment and accounting records: 8 years after the tenancy ends, in line with Hungarian accounting law.
• Email updates: until you unsubscribe.
• Website statistics: 14 months.

8. Your rights

Under the GDPR you have the right to:

• be told what data we hold about you and how we use it
• get a copy of the data we hold about you
• have inaccurate data corrected
• have your data erased in certain circumstances
• restrict how we use your data
• receive your data in a portable format to pass to another organisation
• object to certain types of processing
• withdraw your consent at any time, where we rely on it

To use any of these rights, email manager@budapestpropertyrentals.com. We will reply within one month.

If you are unhappy with how we have handled your data, please tell us first so we can put it right. You also have the right to complain to the Hungarian data protection authority, the Nemzeti Adatvédelmi és Információszabadság Hatóság (NAIH), at naih.hu, or to the data protection authority in the country where you live.

9. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. The date at the top shows when it last changed.