what we read.
This page is the public record of the kinds of source we read. It's referenced from our privacy policy, so a director or officer named in a filing we read can find out how, without us having to track them down to tell them individually, which would mean collecting more personal data about them for the sole purpose of holding less.
What it isn't is a list of every individual source. Which sources we watch for a given company is the work, and publishing it in full would hand that work to anyone who wanted it. What we will do is tell you, before you commit to anything, exactly what we'd read for your companies in your markets. Ask.
We read public sources only. No company we watch is contacted and no questionnaire is sent. Some public records sit behind a registration or a per-page fee, court dockets especially. We pay for those like anyone else.
the public records we monitor
- Company registries. The official register a company is incorporated in: Handelsregister, KRS, Secretary of State filings, and their equivalents. Directors, officers, status, filings, changes of control.
- Court and insolvency filings. Bankruptcy and insolvency dockets, the official insolvency gazettes, and civil litigation where it's on the public record.
- Sanctions and watchlists. The official designation lists: OFAC, the EU consolidated list, and their equivalents. Debarment and exclusion registers too.
- Regulatory notices and enforcement. Supervisory authorities publishing actions, findings and licence changes against a company.
- Financial disclosures. Filed accounts, and market disclosures where the company is listed.
- Breach and outage reports. Public disclosures of security incidents and service failures.
- Trade and regional press. Reporting about a company in its own market and its own language. Treated more carefully than the rest. See below.
- The company's own published material. What a company says about itself on its own site, which sometimes changes before anything official does.
We don't run one global feed and hope a name turns up in it. For every company a customer sends us, we work out which of the above would show trouble first for that specific company, in that specific market, and watch those. Each source has its own checking interval, set to how often that source actually changes.
Every alert names the specific source it came from and links to it. What you get is never "public registers". It's the document.
on individuals named in what we read
A company register entry names directors and officers. An insolvency filing names the administrator and often the directors. A sanctions listing names the designated person. We carry those names through when they appear in a document about a monitored company, because removing them would make the record useless for the regulatory file our customers are building.
We don't build a record about a person. Our unit of record is the company. We don't enrich: no home addresses looked up, no personal contact details assembled, no cross-referencing a name to unrelated companies. We don't score individuals, and we don't run standalone searches about a named person; any personal detail in an alert comes from a source that named that person in connection with the monitored company, and nowhere else.
If you're an individual named in something we've read and you have a question about it, write to contact@noctovisor.com. It's read by the person who runs this.
Version 1.4, 10 August 2026. This page moves as our coverage moves, and the version line moves with it.