Author
Founder and operator of basedecontacts.be. Writes the articles on this website about company data, public sources and the rules for contacting businesses in Belgium.
The articles on basedecontacts.be revolve around one question: how do you work with data about businesses in Belgium in a way that is both lawful and practical? They describe where company data come from, how the enterprise number and the VAT number fit together, how NACE-BEL codes define a target group, why marketing email without consent may only go to impersonal addresses of legal entities and why phone numbers have to be screened against the Do Not Call Me list.
The principle: give figures with a date and source, label approximations as approximations, say openly what is not known, and do not round in our own favour. How we work is described on the sources and methodology page, the current status on the database status page.
All articles are in the blog.
The author answers emails personally. If you are asking for a correction, please state the company name and address.
