These days most of us have a trail of unused and out of date contact details – we lost a mobile and ended up with a brand new number to go with our brand new handset, we stopped using an old e-mail account, we moved and got a new landline number and we’ve certainly all lost touch with colleagues and friends and relatives sometimes…

Past Information Company co-founder and director Kate White believes she has the solution to this problem. There is now a great new service that lets you register all your old and existing e-mail addresses and phone numbers so that people can search for you using the details they have, and if you need to find someone, you can search for their current contact details Free-of-Charge!

Privacy and safety are guaranteed with a smart contact system, so don’t worry about dodgy characters from your past coming back to haunt you or concerns about being traced by the thief if your mobile was stolen, for example. A message is sent out, either by text or e-mail to the person who is being contacted, and they can choose whether or not to follow it up. You can also operate a ‘black-list’ to automatically exclude unwanted messages.

PIC is launching two websites, initially in the UK, called www.pastmail.com for your old e-mail addresses and www.pastnumber.com for your old phone numbers. Packages start from just £3.50 per year and it takes just 5 minutes to set up. You can store up to 15 numbers or e-mail addresses and then you get a weekly report on anyone who has tried to contact you.

Don’t forget you can visit the site and search for old pals and contacts for FREE!