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Data points
Every field in a SyntoraData company record, where it comes from and what it looks like: official registers, licensed company datasets and the company's own website. Each value carries its own provenance.
From official registers
The backbone of every record. Reused under each register's open licence; see sources & licences.
| Field | What it is | Source | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| Company name | Registered legal name, plus a normalised form for matching | Register | NORTHWIND JOINERY LTD |
| Company number | Register identifier: Companies House number, SIREN, Y-tunnus, organisationsnummer, CRO number | Register | 09876543 |
| Legal form | Normalised legal form (private limited, SAS, AB, ...) and the register's raw code | Register | private_limited |
| Status | Active, dissolved, in liquidation, ... and the register's raw status | Register | active |
| Dates | Incorporation and dissolution dates | Register | 2016-03-14 |
| Registered address | Address as filed with the register | Register | 4 Mill Lane, Leeds LS1 4AB |
| Industry codes | SIC (UK), NAF (FR), TOL (FI), SNI (SE) with the NACE section | Register | 16230 · C |
| Size band | Employee bracket where the register publishes one (e.g. INSEE) | Register | 20-49 |
| Identifiers | Cross-register IDs where published: LEI, VAT, SIRET | GLEIF / register | LEI 2138004… |
From licensed company datasets
For companies outside the registers we load, and to fill gaps, we use company-level fields from commercial datasets bought under licence. We take no personal data from them, and show a field only where the licence allows it.
| Field | What it is | Source | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| Industry | Sector and keywords as classified by the dataset | Licensed | Joinery · wood products |
| Employee range | Size band, where the dataset has one | Licensed | 11-50 |
| Founded | Year the company was established | Licensed | 2016 |
| Headquarters | Country and city of the head office | Licensed | GB · Leeds |
| Website | A candidate website; our crawler reads it and every fact from it keeps its own page | Licensed → crawler | northwindjoinery.co.uk |
From the company's own website
Read by our crawler from the company's public site: at most 25 pages per site, homepage included, two links deep.
| Field | What it is | Source | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| Verified domain | The company's own website, linked only when the site shows the company number / SIREN (id) or the name and registered postcode (postcode) | Crawler | northwindjoinery.co.uk · id |
| Switchboard phones | Phone numbers from the company's contact pages, in E.164; demo and fictional ranges removed | Crawler | +44 113 496 0000 |
| General mailboxes | Shared inboxes such as info@, sales@, careers@ on the company's own domain | Crawler | info@northwindjoinery.co.uk |
| Website address | Postal address as published on the site, cleaned of labels and phone numbers | Crawler | 4 Mill Lane, Leeds LS1 4AB |
| VAT number | VAT id from legal / imprint pages, with the country prefix | Crawler | GB123456789 |
| Social profiles | Company pages on LinkedIn, X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube; vendor and partner links filtered out | Crawler | linkedin.com/company/northwind-joinery |
| Technology | CMS, analytics, commerce and tag tools detected in the page | Crawler | wordpress · google-analytics |
| Key pages | URLs of the about, contact, team, careers, legal and privacy pages | Crawler | /contact |
| Title, description, language | From the homepage metadata | Crawler | en |
Work contacts
not served Work contacts from company websites are collected with strict controls and not shown to anyone. People from licensed professional-profile datasets appear on public pages only masked. Every field and rule: people data points. Anyone can see or remove what we hold about them.
| Field | What it is | Source | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| Work contact | Named work e-mail at the company's own domain, with name, title, department and seniority when the page shows them next to the address. Role inboxes and personal webmail are never stored as people. | Crawler | k••••@northwindjoinery.co.uk |
Provenance on every fact
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
source_url | The exact page the fact was read from |
first_seen / last_seen | When we first and most recently saw it there |
confidence | How strongly the page supports it (0-1) |
verification | For domains: which evidence linked the site to the company |