DATA SOURCES & LICENCES

Possession is not permission.

This is the public-use ledger for the open datasets that currently appear in site output. It is not a list of everything stored or discoverable elsewhere in the data estate.

Shared catalogue status: Shared catalogue checked 2026-08-28: 81 candidate data layers listed. Catalogue presence is not publication approval; only separately approved public projections may be shown.

PUBLIC-OUTPUT ALLOW-LIST

What the site actually uses

Permission conclusions checked against the linked terms on 25 Aug 2026. No record counts are shown because live and point-in-time layers have different refresh dates.

Government and open datasets used in public site output
Dataset	Licence	Commercial use	Derivatives
Wikidata structured data Core brand identities, aliases, countries and source-stated owner relationships. Filtered and normalised for search; source identifiers remain attached.	CC0 1.0	Yes	Yes
USDA FoodData Central — Branded Foods Branded-food label records used for brand and declarant context. Records are grouped and normalised; a packaging declarant is never presented as an owner.	CC0 1.0	Yes	Yes
European Product Registry for Energy Labelling (EPREL) Product registrations used for brand, registered-supplier, model and energy-class aggregates. Value-added summaries only; the source data is not sold or redistributed as a dataset.	EPREL Public API Terms	Yes	Yes
USAspending.gov federal award data FY2025 federal contract facts used for exact company-name spending aggregates. Award values are grouped by recipient; the unreliable source-parent field is withheld.	U.S. public-domain works (17 U.S.C. § 105)	Yes	Yes
UK Food Standards Agency food alerts Current and recent food and allergy alerts used as dated safety context. Alerts are filtered by a resolved brand name while the source meaning and source link are preserved.	Open Government Licence v3.0	Yes	Yes
EU Safety Gate alerts Non-food product alerts used as dated safety context. Alerts are filtered by a resolved brand name without changing the warning or implying that no match means a product is safe.	Commission Decision 2011/833/EU	Yes	Yes
Companies House public register Bounded public company-identity facts returned by live legal-entity cross-checks. The site does not publish personal-data profiles or treat a name match as ownership.	Open Government Licence v3.0	Yes	Yes
GLEIF Legal Entity Identifier data LEIs and legal-entity reference facts returned by live identity cross-checks. Records are queried on demand; this site does not mirror the Global LEI Repository.	CC0 1.0 (GLEIF data terms)	Yes	Yes

CURRENT R2 PROVENANCE

What arrived—and what is allowed out.

Checked against the current unified R2 manifests on 29 Sept 2026. A completed import proves acquisition, not permission to publish its rows.

Wikidata brand graph ↗CC0 1.0 terms ↗

R2 generation mrxlyov8-a70869e815 Aug 2026 · 6,530 identities · 2,553 source-stated edges

Approved for brand identities and source-stated owner relationships. A source claim is not silently upgraded to a verified ultimate owner.

Qualified projection

Companies House basic company snapshot ↗Companies House free company data product; public-register reuse remains subject to applicable data-protection and copyright law ↗

Snapshot 1 Sept 2026Companies House · 493 MB · adopted existing

Only company number, legal name, entity status, register date and the official source link may reach public output. Raw rows and personal profiles stay private.

Bounded public use

Companies House PSC snapshot ↗Companies House free PSC data product; public-register reuse remains subject to applicable data-protection and copyright law ↗

Snapshot 13 Sept 2026Companies House · 2.2 GB · downloaded

Held in private R2 only. The file contains personal information and has no approved public or client-output role.

Held in private R2

GLEIF LEI Golden Copy ↗GLEIF open data terms; LEI data may be used and redistributed without restriction ↗

Snapshot 20 Sept 2026Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation · 504 MB · downloaded

Approved only for bounded legal-entity identity facts with an exact LEI, source link and evidence date. Name similarity is not ownership.

Bounded public use

GLEIF parent relationships ↗GLEIF open data terms; LEI data may be used and redistributed without restriction ↗

Snapshot 18 Sept 2026Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation · 24 MB · downloaded

Held for a dedicated relationship-semantics review. It is not published as a brand-owner edge.

Held in private R2

GLEIF parent reporting exceptions ↗GLEIF open data terms; LEI data may be used and redistributed without restriction ↗

Snapshot 25 Sept 2026Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation · 62 MB · downloaded

Held, not published. A reporting exception must never be presented as evidence that an entity has no parent.

Held in private R2

UK Sanctions List ↗Open Government Licence v3.0 ↗

Snapshot 21 Sept 2026UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office · 50 MB · adopted existing

Official file held, but this site does not return sanctions matches, screening results or clearance claims. Identifier-led matching and false-positive review are not yet approved.

Policy gate

UN Security Council consolidated sanctions list ↗United Nations terms of use; official consolidated sanctions list ↗

Snapshot 29 Sept 2026United Nations Security Council · 2.2 MB · downloaded

Official file held, but this site does not return sanctions matches, screening results or clearance claims. No match would not establish clearance.

Policy gate

OFAC Specially Designated Nationals list ↗US federal government public data ↗

Snapshot 24 Aug 2026US Treasury / Office of Foreign Assets Control · No completed object · blocked upstream cloudflare egress

Unavailable in the unified import because the official download returned HTTP 525 from Cloudflare egress. No mirror or scraped substitute is used. Importer status: source download returned 525.

Unavailable / gated

REMAINING GATES

Unavailable means marked, not invented.

blocked api key and product selection

Companies House

Live filing/PSC APIs require credentials and bulk snapshot products have separate selection and retention considerations.

Provide API credentials and select the official bulk products required for the shared entity spine.

blocked commercial rights

Manufacturers, retailers and review publishers

Manuals, reviews, prices, availability, warranties and catalogues are not automatically open for bulk copying.

Use licensed partner feeds or publisher permissions; do not scrape or mirror copyrighted content.

blocked upstream cloudflare egress

US Treasury / Office of Foreign Assets Control

The official SDN CSV download returns TLS error 525 from Cloudflare Worker egress while succeeding from a normal client.

Ask OFAC to support Cloudflare egress or use an official automation-safe mirror; do not proxy the file through an operator laptop.

ATTRIBUTION & CHANGES

Reuse stays attached to its source.

Open UK public data

Contains public sector information from the Food Standards Agency and Companies House licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. The site filters and groups those facts; logos, images and third-party material are excluded.

European Commission data

EPREL records are attributed to the European Commission services in charge of the Energy Labelling Product Registry. Who Owns This Brand groups the records into value-added brand, supplier and energy-class summaries; EPREL does not endorse this service. The public projection is point-in-time, generated 15 August 2026.

Safety Gate notice

Alerts from the Rapid Alert System for dangerous non-food products, published free of charge on the Safety Gate website, © European Union, 2005–2025. The site filters alerts by brand but does not alter their original meaning.

CC0 and U.S. public-domain data

Wikidata, FoodData Central and GLEIF are credited even where CC0 does not require attribution. USAspending figures are U.S. federal public-domain facts. Every layer is transformed only for the bounded purpose described in the table.

PRIVATE & COMMERCIAL INPUTS

Not open data, and not ownership proof.

Private directories, affiliate catalogues and commercially licensed feeds are governed separately, so they do not appear in the table above. The public interface may show a source-labelled aggregate coverage or discovery signal after source-specific review; it does not redistribute raw partner records or disclose non-public contract terms. These signals never establish brand ownership and never raise an ownership confidence label.

Official company and brand pages are also outside the table: they are first-party evidence cited at the individual claim, not datasets redistributed by this site.

PUBLICATION RULES

The guardrails are part of the product.

01
Access is not rights. Every public field keeps its source, licence and publication state.
02
Commercial data is not corporate evidence. A catalogue signal may suggest an alias; it cannot prove control.
03
Dates stay visible. Ownership, awards, alerts and corporate structures can change after a snapshot.
04
No means no. A source that forbids commercial use or derivatives cannot feed public transformed output.