Keeping your personal address off Companies House Records
Discussion
CIS121 said:
There's a way certain directors can do this to cover people who run companies like animal testing etc, but I wouldn't qualify.
My accountant isn't keen for all my company post to go to his - does anyone else have a way to keep your personal address off the public records?
You are able to change the Directors address to the registered office or similar rather than your home address, but I'm assuming your current registered office is your home address?My accountant isn't keen for all my company post to go to his - does anyone else have a way to keep your personal address off the public records?
If your accountant isn't keen you receiving your mail then I don't think you'd be able to hide your registered office address.
There are ways to do this.
Directors can seek approval to use addresses other than their own home address such as Solicitors Offices and Accountants Offices from CH.
If you think about it no one would expect Richard Branson or Alan Sugar and the like to list their home address.
There are Directors who use accommodation addresses and such devices without CH approval. This is not generally picked up by CH but cannot be recommended.
Frankly I am surprised anyone uses their home address nowadays.
Given the idiots that abound in society and the mailing lists this would produce why would you? Similarly contact numbers are generally withheld.
Directors can seek approval to use addresses other than their own home address such as Solicitors Offices and Accountants Offices from CH.
If you think about it no one would expect Richard Branson or Alan Sugar and the like to list their home address.
There are Directors who use accommodation addresses and such devices without CH approval. This is not generally picked up by CH but cannot be recommended.
Frankly I am surprised anyone uses their home address nowadays.
Given the idiots that abound in society and the mailing lists this would produce why would you? Similarly contact numbers are generally withheld.
Does anyone know definitively/first-hand experience if such record of a home address can be completely removed, then of course updated/replaced - so that it's not searchable there any longer, even.
My question has been commented on, but I'm after even more than 'IIRC' status, as it were.
My question has been commented on, but I'm after even more than 'IIRC' status, as it were.
To clarify, CH want two addresses from you -
a residential address
a service address
Am I right in thinking that the "residential" address is kept secret by CH, and the service address is public record?
e: just looked
the residential address is not public record but will be disclosed to "credit reference agencies" as required. the service address is a public record.
You can opt out of disclosing your information to credit reference agencies if you meet some particular criteria (eg. personal safety, past employment with law enforcement etc)
so .. how "leaky" is the residential address information, I wonder..
a residential address
a service address
Am I right in thinking that the "residential" address is kept secret by CH, and the service address is public record?
e: just looked
the residential address is not public record but will be disclosed to "credit reference agencies" as required. the service address is a public record.
You can opt out of disclosing your information to credit reference agencies if you meet some particular criteria (eg. personal safety, past employment with law enforcement etc)
so .. how "leaky" is the residential address information, I wonder..
Edited by essayer on Monday 12th March 12:08
essayer said:
To clarify, CH want two addresses from you -
a residential address
a service address
Am I right in thinking that the "residential" address is kept secret by CH, and the service address is public record?
e: just looked
the residential address is not public record but will be disclosed to "credit reference agencies" as required. the service address is a public record.
You can opt out of disclosing your information to credit reference agencies if you meet some particular criteria (eg. personal safety, past employment with law enforcement etc)
so .. how "leaky" is the residential address information, I wonder..
When was private information not broadcast by government. Thousands of examples. a residential address
a service address
Am I right in thinking that the "residential" address is kept secret by CH, and the service address is public record?
e: just looked
the residential address is not public record but will be disclosed to "credit reference agencies" as required. the service address is a public record.
You can opt out of disclosing your information to credit reference agencies if you meet some particular criteria (eg. personal safety, past employment with law enforcement etc)
so .. how "leaky" is the residential address information, I wonder..
Edited by essayer on Monday 12th March 12:08
The last being the £650,000 award to a witness protection individual who was named identified and address supplied to the miscreants by the CPS
Hence the award.
I strongly recommend every individual to use the system to avoid Home address identification. It seems madness to me to do otherwise.
Business can be a very rough ride. Why invite trouble to your door?
When the problem is outside your home, you will fully appreciate the reasons to avoid giving your home address. It is a hangover from a Victorian approach to business. You are entitled to protection. For a reason. Use it.
Steffan said:
I strongly recommend every individual to use the system to avoid Home address identification. It seems madness to me to do otherwise.
Business can be a very rough ride. Why invite trouble to your door?
When the problem is outside your home, you will fully appreciate the reasons to avoid giving your home address. It is a hangover from a Victorian approach to business. You are entitled to protection. For a reason. Use it.
^^This, and I'm speaking from current experience!Business can be a very rough ride. Why invite trouble to your door?
When the problem is outside your home, you will fully appreciate the reasons to avoid giving your home address. It is a hangover from a Victorian approach to business. You are entitled to protection. For a reason. Use it.
I use two mail services.
One of them is local serviced offices and you can just pop in and pick up the mail. Pretty much ideal.
The other is a mail forwarding service. We pay a few hundred to use their address for registered address. They forward statutory mail on. There is an extra fee to use it as a general correspondence address. They messed things up quite a lot at the start but things are OK now.
The only thing to be careful about is how you put your address there. If they don't include your company name then you might find that things go missing (i.e if they send it to John Smith, 123 Whatever Street rather then John Smith, JS Widgets Ltd, 123 Whatever Street)
One of them is local serviced offices and you can just pop in and pick up the mail. Pretty much ideal.
The other is a mail forwarding service. We pay a few hundred to use their address for registered address. They forward statutory mail on. There is an extra fee to use it as a general correspondence address. They messed things up quite a lot at the start but things are OK now.
The only thing to be careful about is how you put your address there. If they don't include your company name then you might find that things go missing (i.e if they send it to John Smith, 123 Whatever Street rather then John Smith, JS Widgets Ltd, 123 Whatever Street)
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