felvi.hu

Context

felvi.hu is the information portal for higher education admissions in Hungary (felsőoktatási felvételi tájékoztató). The data controller is Oktatási Hivatal (the Educational Authority, OH). The site is served by an nginx server, with HSTS present. Capture: 44 requests, 1 domain, recorded in a clean browser.

Direct Recipients of Data

None. All 44 calls go to the first-party domain felvi.hu; there are no external recipients in the capture.

Declared versus Actual

The portal’s privacy notice is formulated in a restrained and honest manner: it describes indirect technical data that is automatically generated upon connection and may be captured in server logs (the device used, browser, IP address, page visited), as well as direct data that the visitor knowingly provides — for example, upon registration. Oktatási Hivatal is named as the data controller. The policy mentions no analytics, cookies, font providers, or third-party services.

The capture confirms this in full — and shows the site to be even cleaner than the policy requires. All 44 calls go to the first-party domain felvi.hu: stylesheets, scripts (including outdated local libraries — jQuery 1.4.2, swfobject), images, and the favicon. There is not a single external call — no Google, no font CDNs, no analytics or advertising services. Not a single cookie is set across the entire session (Set-Cookie is zero). The fb.gif and yt.gif icons in the markup are local static link icons pointing to social media, not trackers: they are served from the first-party domain and transmit no data externally.

Accordingly, no discrepancy between “declared” and “actual” arises here: the site behaves exactly as it declares, and in fact more strictly still — it manages entirely without cookies and without a single third-party contact.

Timing Relative to Consent

There are no external calls in the capture, so the question of “before or after consent” does not arise. There are no trackers on the portal requiring consent; no cookies are set. For a site of this kind, this is exemplary behavior.

What Cannot Be Asserted from This Capture

The capture covers the public information page of the admissions portal. The authenticated application-submission system, where applicants’ personal data is processed, is a separate flow not covered by this capture; no conclusion about it can be drawn from a single information page. Server-side processing (including the technical logs mentioned in the policy) is not visible in a browser-based capture. Separately worth noting: the libraries in use are outdated (jQuery 1.4.2, swfobject/Flash) — this is a matter of security and maintenance rather than privacy, but an update should be planned.

Conclusion

The Hungarian higher education admissions portal is implemented in an exemplary manner from a privacy standpoint: all resources are served from the first-party domain, there are no external calls whatsoever, no analytics or third-party trackers are present, and no cookies are set. The site’s behavior fully matches its policy and, in fact, exceeds it. There are no external recipients of data, and no IP address is transferred to any third-party service. No violations have been recorded in the capture. The only recommendation is not a privacy matter but a hygiene one: update the outdated client-side libraries (jQuery 1.4.2, swfobject) to current versions for security reasons.