Who or what is identeco?

identeco is a series of online business toolkits providing you with data to support business growth and manage risk. We are a subsidiary of Controlaccount, a global provider of a complete range of credit management and outsourcing solutions.

What is included in the Business Support Toolkit?

A 12 month subscription to the Business Support Toolkit gives you unlimited access to company reports on over 5 million UK registered businesses, with full insight into trading names and addresses, detrimental data, company intelligence, director and shareholder information and other business affiliations, filing dates and documents, annual returns, Companies House document retrieval, statutory documents, liquidation and receiverships, credit flags, and financial health ratings and mortgage details.

How up to date is the Business Support Toolkit?

The toolkit is a live document, delivering real time information.

How much does it cost?

We offer three price plans

This gives you access to our portal as many times as you like for 12 months. No hidden costs. No catches. All the information you need, as many times as you need it.

And if that wasn't good enough, with our Business Support Toolkit, you will also have access to all our other services at a preferential rate.

How does Trace work and is it reliable?

identeco is a highly successful tracing agent and offers a cost-effective way to find a business or person.

Our trace services are on a no find, no fee basis and are competitively priced. identeco's highly trained trace team will undertake all relevant searches to provide a confirmed current address and we will report in a clear, timely and understandable manner.

identeco operates a policy of only supplying validated information.

Surely I can get all this information from Companies House?

Yes, you can. Companies House provides free basic information on all UK registered businesses. However, one of the benefits of using identeco for this information is that we provide clear, concise reporting and do the legwork for you - saving you time and money. Subscribers to identeco receive preferential rates to other services and account management to help you get the best from the portal.

What other services are available with my subscription?

Subscribers have access to customer screening, sales ledger account monitoring, trace services, data cleansing, telephone and contact appending, email appending, live telephone matching, mortality matching, pre-litigation reports, anti-money laundering and ID checks, process serving, probate and land registry searches, asset intelligence, market research and outsourced services such as UK and International debt collection, dunning and letter mailings, call centre services. If there's data, we can supply it.

Are identeco's Marketing Lists GDPR Compliant?

identeco wishes to assure all its customers that we adhere fully to all requirements under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA), and only sell data that is fully compliant with the relevant laws and regulations. Our marketing lists are solely B2B and are considered to fall under 'legitimate business interest' as set out under GDPR and DPA. The data offered by identeco has been determined as suitable for use and where it is not suitable or does not have the appropriate consent, this data has been deleted. We expect our customers to handle the data in accordance with GDPR and DPA and follow the guidance issued by the Information Commissioner's Office.

Information about my company is on your pages. Do I have control over this?

The information shown on our company overview pages contains information which is a matter of public record only. Public information is made available to the public under an 'Open Government Licence'. identeco is entitled and free to use this information in the following ways:

Why can't I access full financial data for all companies?

Every UK company must file information with Companies House, that will include annual accounts and confirmation statements, together with changes to company data. Whilst larger companies are required to file full accounts comprising a balance sheet, profit and loss statements, director's report and audit report, small and medium size companies can file modified accounts containing less detail, so whilst you will always receive balance sheet information on smaller entities, data may not be as fulsome as on the bigger companies and generally you will not get P&L data. With the introduction of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023, there are changes proposed that will increase the level of data a company may have to file but this may take up to a year for Companies House to introduce.