Your data, on websites you have never heard of
If you have ever been self-employed in Spain, a director of a Spanish company, a candidate in a public sector exam or the subject of a notice in an official gazette, your name very probably appears next to your ID number (DNI or NIE), address or phone number on websites that copy that information. That leads to sales calls, scam attempts or simple exposure.
This is very common among foreign residents and investors who set up or ran a company in Spain. The GDPR protects anyone whose data is processed by a website in the EU, whatever their nationality, and we handle the whole process remotely and in English.
Where we act
- Directories of companies and the self-employed that copy data from the Spanish Companies Register.
- Official gazettes (Spain's Official State Gazette, the BOE, and regional and provincial gazettes): the gazette itself is not deleted, but you can ask for that page not to be indexed by search engines.
- Companies Register Gazette (BORME): the publication is official and is not removed, but you can ask Google not to show it when your name is searched, and the directories that copy it to remove it.
- People search sites, lists of members of professional bodies, old public exam results and classified ad sites.
- Commercial databases that use your data to sell it to third parties.
How we do it
- We search for your name and data on search engines and the most common directories.
- We give you a list of what we found and what can be removed.
- We exercise, on your behalf, your rights to erasure and to object under the GDPR with each website.
- If they do not reply within the legal deadline of one month, we file a complaint with the Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD).