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Published contacts and the law

What the tool reads, what it never does, and how it keeps the source of an address you use.

Updated October 26, 2026

On this page
  1. What it reads
  2. What it shows
  3. What it never does
  4. Keeping proof
  5. Why it works this way

Published contacts shows what a business publishes on its own website so people can reach it: email addresses, phone numbers, its postal address, a contact form and its social profile links, each with the page it’s on. It works in the Windows app, one business at a time.

What it reads

  • The homepage
  • Up to five more pages of the same site that the homepage links to: contact pages first, then team and about pages, then legal notices
  • Nothing else: no other website, and no link or redirect that leaves the site

What it shows

  • Email addresses, marked Role address (info@, reception@…), Looks personal or Other domain
  • Named people, only when the site writes a name next to the address. People’s addresses are never saved
  • Phone numbers, with the main phone and fax marked, and whether each is a phone link or written on the page
  • The postal address, the pages with a contact form, and social profile links, listed as the site links them and never opened
  • Pages that say they don’t want unsolicited messages. Then no address from the site can be saved

What it never does

  • Guess or complete addresses, like firstname.lastname@ or info@ plus the domain
  • Decode addresses a site hides from robots, such as Cloudflare’s email protection or “info [at] site [dot] ca”. It shows Email address hidden from robots, with the page to open
  • Search other websites, open social profiles or build profiles of people
  • Keep a list. What it finds isn’t stored
  • Run over a whole scan. It checks one business at a time, when you ask

Keeping proof

Use as business email saves one role address on the business’s own domain as its contact email, with the page it came from and the date. Under CASL, implied consent for a published address depends on where and how it was published. That page is your record.

Why it works this way

In Canada, collecting email addresses with software that searches for and collects them isn’t allowed without consent. Guessed addresses have no implied consent. A sender in another country doesn’t change the rules for email received in Canada.