How we handle personal data
This page explains what happens to information a reader sends to Database Providers, and what the project deliberately avoids collecting in the first place.
What reaches the project
Database Providers gathers exactly one category of personal data: the emails sent to its address by readers. That includes the sender's email address itself and whatever text the message contains. Nothing else is asked for, and nothing else arrives through this channel, because email is the only way to reach the project at all.
There is no contact form standing between a reader and the message, no field requesting a name, company, or phone number before a letter can be sent. A person writes what they choose to write, at post@databaseofcompanies.business, and that message is the entire record the project ends up holding.
What the site does not collect
Database Providers runs no traffic counters and no analytics software. There are no advertising pixels embedded in its pages, and no cookies are set for tracking visits or serving targeted ads. A reader can browse the archive of reviews without leaving behind a trace that the site itself keeps or later consults.
This is a deliberate choice rather than an oversight. The project has no office, operates entirely online, and sees no reason to build a profile of who reads what. Why measure traffic if the only thing that matters is answering the letters that actually come in?
- No visitor counters or analytics platforms
- No advertising tags or tracking pixels
- No cookies used for measuring visits or for advertising
- No records kept about who viewed which page
Why letters are read and how long they stay
Every email is read for one reason: to answer it. Messages coming into post@databaseofcompanies.business are treated as correspondence, not as marketing leads or data to be resold. The editor-in-chief reads and answers personally, on weekdays, and no automated system generates replies on their behalf.
Correspondence is kept only for as long as it remains useful for handling the exchange with that particular reader, and for keeping a short trail in case a follow-up message arrives later referencing an earlier one. Older threads that no longer serve any practical purpose are not preserved indefinitely; there is no scale fact here to round up or soften, only the practice of keeping what is needed and discarding what is not.
Asking for a letter to be deleted
A reader who wants their message removed can simply write again to post@databaseofcompanies.business and ask for it. Since email is the only channel this project maintains, that same address handles the request itself, without a separate form or a different process layered on top.
The request is read personally, the same way every other letter is, and the earlier correspondence is deleted once the request has been handled. No confirmation number gets issued and no ticketing system tracks the request, because none of that machinery exists here. A short reply confirming the deletion is the only trace that remains, and even that fades once the exchange is closed.