Acceptable use policy

These rules keep DataStoa useful and safe for everyone. They apply to buyers, providers, visitors and automated tools.

Everyone must not

• Break the law or help anyone else break it.
• Send spam, chain messages or unsolicited bulk marketing through DataStoa.
• Impersonate a person or company, or misrepresent your affiliation.
• Collect other users' contact details or copy the catalog in bulk to build a competing directory.
• Probe, scan or test the security of DataStoa, or bypass rate limits, quotas, attribution or access controls.
• Upload malware or files designed to harm systems.

Buyers must not

• Use the data you buy for re-identifying individuals without consent, discrimination, surveillance or harassment of individuals, or in sanctioned countries.
• Send more than 20 inquiries in 24 hours or 60 in 7 days, or keep more than 5 open data requests per organisation, without asking us first.
• Post requests for prohibited data, such as lists of patients, children or private individuals' locations.

Providers must not

• Send proposals that do not answer the request, or near-identical proposals to unrelated requests.
• Contact buyers outside an accepted inquiry, a shortlist or a conversation the buyer started.
• Ask buyers to hide that they found you on DataStoa, or move a deal off the record to avoid commission.
• Offer data for forbidden uses or list prohibited data.

Automated access

Search engines and AI assistants are welcome to index public pages within reasonable rate limits. Bulk downloading of listings, profiles or requests for resale or a competing service is not allowed.

Enforcement

Depending on how serious a breach is, we may warn you, remove content, limit features, or suspend or close the account. We explain our decision and you can appeal by replying to it.

Report a problem

Use the report form or write to [email protected].