8 register datasets · 2 identifier sources · licensed company datasets
Sources & licences
Where SyntoraData's company data comes from, under which licence, and the attribution each source asks for.
Official company registers
| Country | Publisher | Licence | Attribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | Companies House | Open Government Licence v3.0 | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| France | INSEE Sirene | Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 | Source : INSEE, Sirene |
| France | Annuaire des Entreprises (INSEE / DINUM) | Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 | Source : INSEE / DINUM (Annuaire des Entreprises) |
| Ireland | Companies Registration Office | CC BY 4.0 | Contains Irish Public Sector Data licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence |
| Norway | Brønnøysundregistrene | NLOD 2.0 | Kilde: Brønnøysundregistrene (Enhetsregisteret), NLOD 2.0 |
| Sweden | Bolagsverket | Free reuse, no named licence | Källa: Bolagsverket / SCB |
| Finland | Patentti- ja rekisterihallitus / YTJ | CC BY 4.0 | Lähde: Patentti- ja rekisterihallitus (PRH) / YTJ |
| Latvia | Uzņēmumu reģistrs | CC0 1.0 | No attribution required |
Global identifiers
Not registers: open datasets we use to cross-link companies across countries (Legal Entity Identifiers and Wikidata ids).
| Scope | Publisher | Licence | Attribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| Global | GLEIF (LEI) | CC0 | No attribution required |
| Global | Wikidata | CC0 1.0 | No attribution required |
Where a register's licence excludes personal data (for example NLOD §3), those fields are not stored.
Licensed company datasets
For the rest of the world, and to fill gaps, we buy commercial company datasets from a data vendor under licence. We use company-level fields only (name, website, industry, size range, founded year, headquarters); we do not take personal data from them. Their fields are used inside SyntoraData only as the licence allows, and every value keeps a tag of the dataset it came from, so it can be withdrawn if the licence ends.
Company websites
Everything else comes from the company's own public website, read by SyntoraDataBot. It honours robots.txt, waits at least five seconds between requests to a site and identifies itself. Each fact keeps the page it came from; see data points.
Linking websites to companies
Most registers do not list websites. We link a site to a company only when the site shows that company's registration number (or SIREN / SIRET / VAT), or its name together with the registered postcode. A matching name alone is never enough: many companies share a name.