This policy sets the rules for every listing and provider profile on DataStoa. It applies to all providers on every plan. We review listings against it before they go live and when they are reported.
Who can publish
- Only legally registered businesses that we have approved can publish. Approval means permission to publish; it does not mean we have verified every claim.
- The verified mark means we checked the company's registration, control of its website domain and evidence of its rights to the data. The date of verification is shown on the profile.
Listings must be accurate
- Say what the data is, where it covers and from when. Coverage, history, update frequency, volume and delivery fields must match the description.
- No inflated counts. If the title says "120 countries", the coverage list must show 120 countries of the stated record type.
- No keyword stuffing, lists of search terms, pipes or ALL-CAPS words in titles, and no unverifiable superlatives such as "#1" or "best".
- Quality figures (accuracy, completeness, fill rate) are shown as provider-reported. Be ready to explain how you measure them.
- Keep listings current. Update or archive listings that change or are no longer offered.
Samples
- Samples must come from the product and match its schema.
- Personal data in samples is detected and masked automatically. You may unmask a column only if it contains no personal data; requests to unmask names, emails or phone numbers go to a moderator.
- Columns with government identifiers, payment cards or health data cannot be unmasked and block publication.
Rights and provenance
- You must hold the rights to license or resell the data and link your own licence terms.
- Declare your sources and collection method truthfully. For web-collected data, describe how you respect site terms and technical limits.
- If the data contains personal data, state the legal basis and how the people concerned were informed.
No contact details in public text
Listings and profiles may not contain email addresses, phone numbers or messaging handles, and may link only to your own verified domain. Buyers reach you through DataStoa so every lead is tracked fairly.
Forbidden uses you must not offer
You may not market data for non-consensual re-identification of individuals, discrimination, surveillance of individuals, military operations, fraud, illegal uses, use in sanctioned countries or uses that break this platform's rules.
Category rules
Some categories have extra fields and rules. Trade data listings, for example, must declare record type, whether party names are included and the legal basis for each country, and named shipment-level Indian customs data is not accepted.
Prohibited data
Some data may never be listed. See the prohibited data policy.
Review and enforcement
- We review new listings before publication, aiming to decide within two business days, and material edits before they go live.
- Listings that break this policy are sent back with the reason, unpublished or removed. Repeated or serious breaches lead to suspension.
- Every decision comes with a statement of reasons, and you can appeal by replying to it.