Are you in our database?

Route13 aggregates business intelligence on European companies for B2B prospecting and credit risk. If you are or were registered as a director, officer or legal representative of an EU company in a public commercial registry, we may hold:

• your name + role at that company
• (optionally) a corporate email derived from that company's own published materials

We do not hold your personal email, home address, phone number, IP, browsing history, biometric data or anything else outside the strict scope of professional/public-registry data.

All personal data we hold about company directors comes from one of these public sources:

• Sirene / INSEE — the French national company registry (link).
• BODACC — Bulletin officiel des annonces civiles et commerciales (link).
• INPI — Institut national de la propriété industrielle, registre national des entreprises (link).
• recherche-entreprises.api.gouv.fr — the official French government API.
• Company websites — only the pages each company itself publishes (/contact, /mentions-legales, etc.). We respect robots.txt and identify ourselves as Route13Bot/1.0 with this page as our contact reference.
• The company's own mail server — for director email addresses, we may generate a candidate using a common B2B pattern (e.g. firstname.lastname@<company-domain>) and ask the company's mail server, via the SMTP RCPT TO command, whether the address exists. Only candidates whose existence the mail server confirms with an SMTP 250 reply are kept. Candidates that the server rejects are discarded immediately and not stored. No actual email is delivered during this verification — we never issue an SMTP DATA command.

We do not use LinkedIn, Hunter.io, Apollo, ZoomInfo, Kaspr, third-party email databases, or browser-extension crowdsourcing. We never buy data.

We rely on GDPR Article 6(1)(f) — legitimate interest. Our balance test is documented internally (Legitimate Interest Assessment). In summary:

• Our interest: running a B2B intelligence service on EU companies for professional users. Equivalent services have established commercial markets in the EU.
• Necessity: the processing is limited to data already in the public domain and to professional capacities. We do not process special categories of personal data (Art. 9).
• Your rights: we provide a self-service erasure mechanism (below) and respond to all rights requests within 30 days as required by Art. 12(3).

We retain director-related data for as long as you remain registered with the company in the source registry, or for 3 years after the most recent commercial use of the record by a Route13 customer, whichever is shorter. Inactive records are automatically pruned.

An opt-out request through the form below removes you immediately from the active database and prevents re-addition by future scrapes (we keep only an SHA-256 hash of your email address to enforce this — your raw email is not retained).

• Article 15 — Access: ask what we hold about you.
• Article 16 — Rectification: correct inaccurate data.
• Article 17 — Erasure (“right to be forgotten”).
• Article 18 — Restriction of processing.
• Article 20 — Data portability.
• Article 21 — Object to processing under legitimate interest.
• Article 77 — Lodge a complaint with the CNIL or your national DPA.

For requests not handled by the form below, email [email protected]. We respond within 30 days. No identity check is required for an erasure request based on email address.

Enter the corporate email address you want removed. We compute an SHA-256 hash and store only the hash in a permanent block-list — your raw email is never retained. Any current or future record matching that hash is deleted and will not be re-added.

Route13 — operated from the European Union.
Data protection inquiries: [email protected]

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the French data protection authority, CNIL, or the supervisory authority in your country of residence.