Terms of use

Billions / Trillions publishes what company registries and regulatory filings state about a company, with the source attached to each fact. The about page describes the approach and the data and coverage page lists every source and the licence it is used under.

Reading the site requires no account and costs nothing. There is nothing to subscribe to and no visitor account to create, so these terms describe use of a public reference site rather than a service you hold a contract for.

We take accuracy seriously enough to label every value by how we came to hold it, and to publish nothing we cannot attribute. That is not the same as a warranty, and we do not offer one.

A registry can hold an error, a filing can be superseded, an industry code recorded at registration can be decades out of date, and our own reading of a source can be wrong. The site is provided as it is, with no guarantee that it is complete, current or uninterrupted. Where a figure is missing we say it is unknown rather than estimate it, so an absence on this site is an absence of evidence and not a statement about the company.

If something is wrong we would rather know, and we correct against the source rather than against the claim. Tell us from the contact page.

You are welcome to read the site, quote from it, and cite it, and we ask for a link back to the page you took a figure from so a reader can reach the source behind it. Where a fact came from a registry or a filing, that source has its own terms, and citing the source itself is usually better than citing us.

What we ask you not to do: copy the database wholesale or systematically re-publish it as a competing listing; strip the source and label from a figure and present it as an unattributed fact; or present the site, or a copy of it, as something other than ours.