Lusha is a contact database popular with sales teams, often used through a browser extension while viewing professional profiles. If your work phone number or email address is in it, here is how to ask Lusha to remove it.
Lusha Systems Inc. is a US company that sells business contact details to sales and recruitment teams. Its privacy notice says its data comes from members of its community programme who share their professional contacts, from data brokers, and from publicly available business profiles.
Lusha's privacy notice says that if you opt out, it removes your data from its database and keeps it on a suppression list, so that you are not added again. In our own pilot sweep, Lusha confirmed deletion and suppression within a week.
Your name, work email address and direct phone number are personal data. You have an absolute right to object to their use for direct marketing, and in many cases a right to have them erased. Companies based outside the UK can still be subject to UK data protection law when they process the details of people in the UK.
Go to the Privacy Center linked from Lusha's privacy notice, choose the option to request removal, and enter the details Lusha needs to find your record, such as your work email address. Confirm the request if asked.
Lusha's privacy notice says its data comes from members of its community programme who share their professional contacts, from data brokers, and from publicly available business profiles.
It must normally respond within one calendar month under UK law. In our own pilot sweep, Lusha confirmed deletion and suppression within a week.
Lusha says that when you opt out, it keeps your details on a suppression list so that you are not added again. It is still worth checking every few months, especially after you change role.
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ColdStop Pro is not affiliated with Lusha. Lusha may change its process; check its privacy notice for the latest details. This guide is general information, not legal advice.