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People data points
The professional contact details a company publishes about its own staff on its own website, and the strict rules we apply before we store a single one.
Current status: work contacts from company websites (below) are collected under these rules and not shown to anyone. People from licensed professional-profile datasets appear on public company pages and in the people directory only in masked form (initials, role, seniority, country); full details are for signed-in customers only. Anyone can see or remove what we hold about them at any time.
Fields in a work contact
| Field | What it is | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Full name | As printed next to the address on the page, cut to the words that match the address | Katarzyna Holloway |
| First / last name | Split from the full name | Katarzyna · Holloway |
| Job title | Only when it sits right next to that name on the page, never from a neighbouring card | Head of Operations |
| Seniority | Derived from the title: executive, VP, director, manager, entry | director |
| Department | Derived from the title: sales, marketing, engineering, finance, HR, operations, legal, product, customer success, management | operations |
| Work e-mail | At the company's own domain only | k••••@northwindjoinery.co.uk |
| Evidence | How the address appeared: a mailto link or visible text | mailto |
| Confidence | 0-1: named + mailto is strongest; unnamed person-shaped address lowest | 0.95 |
| Source page | The exact URL the contact was found on | northwindjoinery.co.uk/team |
| First / last seen | When we first and most recently saw it on that page | 2026-09-24 · 2026-09-24 |
| Expires | Retention end: 365 days after it was last seen | 2027-09-24 |
When we store a contact
All of these must be true:
- The address is at the company's own domain, on the company's own website, and visible on the page (not hidden in scripts).
- It belongs to a person, not a role, team, place or brand inbox (info@, sales@, tenders@, london@, helpline@ …).
- Either the page shows a name that matches the address (jane.doe@, jdoe@, doe.j@), or the address itself is person-shaped (first.last@, or a common first name).
- A title is attached only when it is printed beside that same name.
Precision comes first: a contact without a name is acceptable, a wrong name is not. In our first review, these rules cut stored contacts from 86 to 10, and every remaining name was checked against its page by hand.
What we never store
- Personal webmail (Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, iCloud, GMX, Orange and similar)
- Personal or mobile phone numbers linked to a person, photos, dates of birth, home addresses
- Anything from social networks, pages behind a login, or pages excluded by robots.txt
- Template addresses (firstname.lastname@, etunimi.sukunimi@, prenom.nom@)
- Special-category data of any kind
Retention, staleness and removal
- Each contact expires 365 days after we last saw it on its page; a daily job deletes expired contacts for good.
- If the page stops showing a contact, we delete it after two further visits.
- On objection or erasure we delete the record and every archived copy of a page that contains the address, and keep only a one-way fingerprint (hash) of it in a suppression list, so it can never be stored again, even if the page still shows it.
- Requests are answered within one month. See the privacy notice and collection rules.