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Guides to company data in France: B2B prospecting under CNIL rules, the Sirene database, NAF and APE codes, and what to check before buying a file.
Website and legal notice, directories, public sources: where to look for a French company’s phone number or email, what each source really gives and when a list becomes useful.
Read more →Phone, website, email: how many records carry each channel, what each is worth, what to do with shared addresses and how to choose a small selection.
Read more →Email, phone, post: what the CNIL allows towards professionals, how generic addresses are treated, the end of Bloctel on 11 August 2026 and the duties under Articles 14 and 21 GDPR.
Read more →Ten checks before you order: sources and licences, data date, fill rates, shared addresses, intended use and price per record you can actually use.
Read more →How NAF rev. 2 is structured, how to use it to define a target group, where its limits lie and what changes with NAF 2025 on 1 January 2027.
Read more →What INSEE’s Sirene database publishes free of charge every month, the difference between SIREN and SIRET, partial dissemination, the Recherche d’entreprises API – and why it contains no contact details.
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