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Guides to company data, registers and B2B prospecting in France

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.

4 November 2026

B2B prospecting in France: what email and phone outreach allows

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.

Buying French company data: ten things to check

Ten checks before you order: sources and licences, data date, fill rates, shared addresses, intended use and price per record you can actually use.

NAF and APE codes: how to target an industry in France

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.

The Sirene database: SIREN, SIRET and what French public data really contain

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.