Trust

Where the data comes from

Only from places where a company, or the state, has published it about the company:

• The company's own website: contact and team pages, structured data, the addresses and numbers it links, its security.txt.
• Public registers: the EU VAT register, domain registries, and national business registers where they are open.
• Public directories, maps and notices: OpenStreetMap and Overture Places, public tender awards, job postings, and the summaries review platforms publish.
• Openly licensed company datasets: the Free Company Dataset by People Data Labs (CC BY 4.0). Facts about companies only — sector, headcount band, founding year and place — never people and never addresses, and only ever to fill in what no other source knew.
• The Internet Archive, for pages a company has stopped publishing, and public code commits at the company's own domain, only from repositories the company itself links.
• Archives of business-contact records shared with Hunter by third parties, including an export of public professional profiles. We did not collect them: they are uploaded and shared by others, and we make them searchable. These are kept as old, unverified claims, dated as such, and never presented as fact. From them we keep a person's name, title, employer and professional profile, and the addresses the archive listed, each labelled by kind (a private mailbox is shown as one, and is written to last); a birth date, a gender, a personal social account or a skills list is never read past the file.
• What a workspace member types or imports by hand.

The shared archives and the imports are other people's records. We show them as dated, unverified claims and do not vouch for their accuracy, their provenance or the lawfulness of any use made of them. The workspace that contacts a person is the controller of that processing: the legal basis, the information notice and the right to object are its to honour, and the tools below exist so that it can.

What we refuse

• Data-breach corpora and breach-lookup services, in any form.
• People-search sites and data-broker dumps.
• Personal social accounts as a source of addresses.
• Italian certified mail (PEC). A PEC address is a legal instrument, not a marketing channel, and is never contacted.
• Guessing dressed as knowledge. An address constructed from a company's naming pattern is labelled as a construction and weighs least.

How we describe what we know

There is no “verified” in this product. Every fact carries the evidence it rests on, with a link to the source, and is graded strong, fair or thin by that evidence. A workspace member can see why each claim is there and when it was last confirmed, and can dispute it. A disputed record is capped until the dispute is settled.

Outreach

• Email is sent only from a mailbox the workspace connects, never from ours.
• Every message carries an unsubscribe link, honoured at once.
• A reply stops the sequence. If replies cannot be detected, nothing is sent.

Website visitors

A workspace can add one line to its own website to learn which companies come to look. The public Internet registries say who holds an address block; we ask them once per block and keep the answer for ninety days. The visitor's address is read to ask, and is stored nowhere.

• Only companies with their own address block are named. Anyone on a home or mobile line resolves to their carrier and is dropped before anything is written.
• No cookie, no fingerprint, nothing in the browser. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control are honoured.
• We keep the organisation, the page and the day. Never the person, never the address.
• The vendors of this start from the same public fact and add guesses. We stop at the fact.

How to be left out

If you appear in such data and would rather not, use the removal form on our data deletion page. No account is needed. The request is applied immediately, to every workspace, and everything stored about you is purged. We keep only a one-way fingerprint of what you enter, so the same record cannot be collected again, and you receive a reference number to keep.

If you are a user, you can delete your account from Settings; the same page explains how.