Choose who to email

A scraped list is a hypothesis about who might want to hear from you. It is worth spending the ten minutes it takes to test it, because the cost of being wrong is not a low reply rate. It is a sending domain that stops reaching inboxes at all.

Every search so far has returned rows that should not be contacted, and no heuristic catches them all. Read the queue in All leads before a batch is written, and remove anything that is not a real prospect.

Anything you add to the do-not-contact list is skipped from then on, and stays skipped through future searches. Use it for the rows you remove and for anyone who asks to be left alone by any route: a reply, a phone call, anything.

Whether you may email a business at all depends on where it is. Country rules lists the rule Galactic applies to every city it can search: leads in Germany, Spain, Poland, the Netherlands and Singapore are held and never sent to, because the law there requires opt-in first or forbids mail to addresses collected from the web, and no setting overrides that.

Everywhere else the law still asks something of you: an opt-out in every email, a sender who is who they say they are, and in the EU and UK a lawful basis for using the address, usually legitimate interest, that you can explain if asked. Galactic cannot judge that for a particular person; the Terms say so.

Every search is for a city, and each city Galactic can search carries one rule for its country. The rule is set when the queue is built, from the same table the product reads, so this page and the product cannot disagree.

A lead in a country marked opt-in first is held: it is never queued, and the safety checks block any batch that contains one. There is no setting that overrides this. A city outside the table is held too, as unknown jurisdiction.

Some conditions in the table are yours to keep, because Galactic records them but cannot check them. In the UK and Ireland the address must belong to a company, not a sole trader. In Canada and Australia it must be one the business publishes itself, with no notice beside it refusing unsolicited email, and your message must be relevant to the person's work. A search collects published addresses; a list you import may not be.