A residential address must be submitted to the regulatory body if one of the following persons is appointed: The same consideration must be taken into consideration when providing their mailing address. All third parties who hold your data are responsible for ensuring that they comply with data protection laws. If you have concerns about your company`s data about third-party products and websites, you should contact the organization directly. The person`s residential address is different from other addresses that must also be provided to Companies House, including: You can change the address of your registered office, but any previous addresses you used as your registered office will remain in the public register for the life of the company and 20 years after the dissolution of the company. You can use www.companycheck.co.uk to learn basic details about limited liability companies and their directors for free. There are fees for more detailed information (such as full accounts or home addresses of administrators), but this is not excessive. As the name suggests, this is the address of the home where they live (usually). If you used your home address as your head office address, it will be posted in the public registry. We do not have the legal authority to remove a home address that has been used as a business headquarters. If the person has multiple roles within a company – for example, they are both a director and a CFP – the appropriate form must be submitted for each role. If the person is involved in multiple businesses, separate forms are required to update their home address for each business. Your home address may appear in other documents in your company`s registration history.
Companies House provides more detailed guidance on how to protect residential addresses. Your protection team is available to respond to inquiries on 02920 348354 or by email at [email protected]. If you do not want your home address to appear in the register, use an address other than your correspondence address and the address of your registered office. Although current regulations ensure that residential addresses are not accessible to the public, Companies House was not required to remove directors` residential addresses previously disclosed in the public registry, including all addresses available before October 1, 2009. A person`s residential address can also be used as a business address and even for the company`s headquarters, although many avoid it for privacy reasons. You must have permission to use the address and the company must be reachable at the address provided. If your home address appears in other documents, such as an administrator nomination form, you can request that your residential address be removed. There is a £32 fee to remove an address from each document.
You need to know what documents contain your home address. You can do this by consulting the contact details of your company in the commercial register. Some companies will have PSCs whose information is protected. As with administrators, this could mean that their home address is not shared with credit bureaus. It could also mean that none of their PSC information is on the public registry. A residential address is the usual home address of an administrator. You must provide us with your home address, but it will not be available to everyone in the public registry. It is kept in a private register. You do not need a sensitive address (e.g. Your home address) for yours: As a director of a company, you must provide 2 addresses, one to which we can send correspondence (a correspondence address) and the second, your home address (or ordinary residential address). If you don`t want your home address to be available in the registry, you have a few options.
Legislation to redact a director`s full date of birth was introduced on October 10, 2015 under the Small Business, Business and Employment Act. It applies to directors appointed on or after that date. I`ve updated the blog post for clarity. If you are a director of a registered company, some of your data will be published. This includes: Even with this additional protection, the person`s residential address is made available to certain public bodies. If a director, PSC or LLP member moves, the change in their usual residential address must be reported immediately to Companies House. Neither the old nor the new address is entered in the public register. If you think, “My home address appears as a correspondence address on my director list, can I change it?” The answer is yes. We are required by law to make this information available to the public, so we cannot protect your address, even if it is sensitive. An administrator`s residential address is not visible to the public. However, because both the head office address and the business address of the Director are listed in the public registry, if you are concerned about privacy, you should not use your residential address for both. If you do not have access to an address other than your home address, you can purchase a business address service to protect your privacy.
The return address and payment details can be found on the form. We do not have the legal authority to remove a sensitive or private address that has been used as: A correspondence address is an address that you may use to receive communications about the Company.