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You appear on whatdotheyown.com because you appear on a UK public register. Here is what we show, why we're allowed to, and what you can ask us to do about it. Last updated: September 2026.

Why am I on this site?

Because you appear on a UK public register. If you are, or have been, a company officer or a person with significant control, Companies House publishes your name, your role, the dates of your appointment, your month and year of birth, your nationality and your service address. We read that register and present it alongside the ownership chain it belongs to. We do not add anything to it, and we hold no private information about you: everything shown came from a register that is already public and free for anyone to search.

Is my page on Google?

No. Person and company pages on this site are kept out of search engines two ways over: our robots.txt tells search engines not to crawl them at all, and each page additionally carries a noindex instruction as a second line of defence for any crawler that ignores the first. Nobody can find your page by searching your name, and it has never been indexable. This is a deliberate design decision rather than a setting we can be talked into changing for one page, so there is no removal request to submit here — the outcome you would be asking for is already the default.

Why can you show this without asking me?

Consent is only one of six lawful bases in UK GDPR, and it is not the one that applies here. We process public register data on the basis of legitimate interests: making register information that is already public usable in one place, for the professional purposes described on our use-cases pages. Companies House itself publishes this data under its own legal duty. That does not mean your rights disappear, and the rest of this page is about what you can ask us to do.

Can you delete me?

Not from the public register, and usually not from the site. Because our basis is legitimate interests rather than consent, we do not remove public register data simply on request — the facts remain on the register whatever we do, and removing our copy would not change that. What we will always do is tell you exactly what we hold about you, correct anything that is wrong on our side, and stop showing anything we are not entitled to show. If you believe our showing it affects your rights and freedoms, say so and tell us why: that is a specific objection under UK GDPR and we will weigh it properly rather than refusing by default.

Anything you hold that I gave you myself, though?

That is different, and yes. An account, its email address, a contact form submission — anything you provided directly — we will delete on request, and closing your account removes it. The only things we keep are records we are legally required to, such as transaction and invoice history for tax purposes.

My home address is showing as my company's address

This is the most common reason people write to us, and the fix has to happen at Companies House rather than here. When a home address has been filed as a registered office or service address, it is published on the register, and every service that reads the register — including this one — shows what the register says. Companies House has a process for removing a home address and replacing it. We re-read the register live rather than keeping our own copy, so once it changes there, it changes here within about a day without you needing to contact us at all.

Companies House: restricting disclosure of your information →

I am at risk if these details are visible

Tell us, and treat this as the exception to everything above. If publication puts you at risk of violence or intimidation — domestic abuse, witness protection, and similar — Companies House can suppress your details at source under its protection regime, which is the durable fix because it stops every downstream service at once. Email us in parallel and we will treat it as a priority rather than a routine request.

Companies House: applying to protect your details →

The information about me is wrong

If it is wrong on the register, it has to be corrected at the register: file the correction with Companies House and our view follows automatically, because we read from source rather than storing our own version. If something is wrong only here — a chain drawn incorrectly, two different people merged into one profile because they share a name and a birth month — that is our error, not the register's, and we want to know. Send us the page and what is wrong with it.

Someone has used my details to set up a company

That is register fraud, and Companies House is the body that can act on it: they can remove fraudulent appointments and, in some cases, dissolve the company. Report it to them first. Let us know as well and we will suppress what we can on our side while it is investigated, but only the register holder can undo the filing itself.

Companies House: report a company →

Do you sell my data?

No. We do not sell personal data and we do not share it for marketing. The companies that process data for us are listed in the privacy policy — hosting, sign-in, payments, caching and email — and they act on our instructions only. Companies House applies its own re-use terms to the PSC register which prohibit using that data to market to the people named on it, and our terms of service pass that restriction on to our customers: nobody may use what they find here to contact you as a sales prospect.

How do I ask for any of this?

Email info@bricksmart.ai from the address you would like us to reply to, and tell us which company or person page you mean — a link is ideal. We do not need proof of identity to answer a general question, but if you are asking us to change or remove something we may need to confirm you are who you say you are, so that someone else cannot make that request about you. We aim to reply within five working days, and UK GDPR requires us to respond substantively within one month.

I am not happy with your answer

Tell us, and we will look at it again. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office, the UK's data protection regulator, at any point — you do not have to come to us first, though it is usually quicker if you do.

Information Commissioner's Office: make a complaint →

The full legal detail is in our privacy policy, and what the site may be used for is in our terms of service.