HarvestMyData collects publicly available contact information from a variety of public sources, including but not limited to social media profiles, public directories, and other publicly accessible platforms.
The legality of public data collection has been affirmed by US courts. In hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn (2022), the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that scraping publicly accessible data does not violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). The court held that publicly available data — information visible to anyone without authentication — is not protected under federal computer access laws.
This precedent establishes that information users intentionally make public can be legally collected. Our service operates within this legal framework by accessing only public information that requires no login or authentication.
To ensure legal compliance and respect user privacy, we explicitly avoid the following:
We collect only information that users have chosen to make publicly visible:
Our system accesses only publicly visible information — the same data anyone can see without logging in. We use standard HTTP requests to retrieve publicly accessible data, similar to how search engines index public web pages.
We maintain compliance with applicable regulations:
By using HarvestMyData, you agree to:
We automatically delete all collected data from our servers within 7 days of delivery. We do not sell, share, or retain your data beyond this period. Once deleted, data cannot be recovered — you are responsible for backing up your downloaded files.