Conditions

Part A. The data licence

A1. What you may do with a record

Individual e-label records retrieved from e-label Atlas are licensed to you under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0).

You may use them, copy them, store them, adapt them, and build commercial products on them. You do not need our permission and you do not need to tell us.

Full licence text: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

A2. Attribution

CC BY 4.0 requires credit. Credit both the provider that published the record and Atlas as the source, with a link where your medium allows one.

A shop page showing one product might say:

Product data published by <PROVIDER> via e-label Atlas, CC BY 4.0.

Where you show many records, a single statement covering the page or the dataset is enough, provided the individual providers are identifiable from the data you display.

A3. What this licence does not cover

The licence in A1 covers records. It does not cover:

• The database itself. The selection, arrangement and accumulation of records into a single directory is a separate work. Essential Code GmbH reserves all rights in it, including the sui generis database right under Directive 96/9/EC and its national implementations. No right to extract or re-utilise a substantial part of the database is granted by A1, by implication, or otherwise.
• Trade marks, branding and the appearance of the website.
• Any right in the underlying products described by the records.

The distinction in plain terms: any record you retrieve is yours to use with credit. The collection is not yours to take.

Part B. API terms of use

These terms apply to everyone who calls the API or uses the website, whether or not they hold an API key.

B1. Access

The public read API is open. Some endpoints and higher rate limits need an API key, which is free.

Keys are issued to an account, must not be shared, and must be kept secret. You are responsible for calls made with your key. Tell us if a key is exposed and we will help you rotate it.

B2. Rate limits

Rate limits apply per key, and per address for anonymous callers. Current limits are published with the API documentation and may change; we will give notice of a reduction where we reasonably can.

Rate limits are a fair-use measure, not a licence boundary. Staying inside them does not authorise anything section B3 forbids.

B3. What you must not do

Do not systematically extract or re-utilise a substantial part of the database. This covers crawling the API or the website to build a copy of the directory, whether in one pass or by repeated extraction of small parts over time. Retrieving the records you need for your own use is exactly what the service is for; taking the collection is not.

Also, do not:

• republish Atlas as a competing directory, whether or not you credit us
• remove or obscure provider attribution
• present Atlas data as verified by Atlas, since we index what providers publish and do not check it against the physical product
• use the service to distribute malware, or attempt to disrupt or gain unauthorised access to it
• use automated access to circumvent rate limits, including by rotating keys or addresses

If you want the whole dataset, ask us. There is a legitimate case for bulk access in research and in large-scale retail integration, and a conversation is cheaper for both of us than a crawl.

B4. Suspension

We may rate-limit, suspend or revoke a key that breaches these terms or that threatens the stability of the service. Where a breach looks accidental we will normally contact you first. Where it does not, we may act immediately.

B5. No warranty

The service and the data are provided as they are.

Records are published by providers. We do not verify them against the physical product, and we do not warrant that they are accurate, complete or current. Do not rely on Atlas as the sole source for a regulatory or safety decision. Where the data matters legally, check the provider's own e-label, which each record links to.

We do not promise uninterrupted availability. To the extent the law allows, we exclude liability for loss arising from use of the service or reliance on the data.

B6. Changes

We may change these terms. Material changes will be announced with reasonable notice through the API documentation and the website. Continued use after a change means acceptance.

B7. Contact and law

Essential Code GmbH, Glücksallee 8, 3012 Wolfsgraben, Austria, david@essentialcode.eu. Governed by the law of Austria.

Part C. Provider terms

These terms cover what a provider gives e-label Atlas when they publish data through it, and what Atlas gives back. They are deliberately short. Atlas asks for the minimum it needs to run a public directory, and nothing beyond that.

C1. What this is

e-label Atlas is a public directory of e-label data, operated by Essential Code GmbH. Providers publish their public e-label records to it. Anyone can then search those records and retrieve them through the website and the public API.

A provider is an organisation that publishes e-label records to Atlas, whether it reached Atlas by signing up or by accepting an invitation.

A record is one published e-label entry: the product data a provider submits about a single product.

C2. What you grant us

You grant Atlas the right to publish your records and to provide them onward to others.

That is the whole grant. Concretely, it means Atlas may store your records, index them, show them on the website, and serve them through the public API and any other interface Atlas offers for reading public data, including machine interfaces.

The grant is non-exclusive. You keep every right you had before. You may publish the same data anywhere else, in any form, at any time, and nothing here restricts what you do with your own data.

We claim no ownership of your records. We do not require you to publish through Atlas, and we will not ask for exclusivity later as a condition of staying listed.

C3. What you are confirming when you publish

By publishing a record you confirm three things.

It is public data. Atlas is for e-label information that is already published or intended for publication, typically the data behind a product's e-label QR code. Do not submit anything confidential, and do not submit personal data about individuals.

You have the right to submit it. Either the data is yours, or the party it belongs to has authorised you to publish it here. Where you publish on behalf of a producer who is your customer, you confirm that your arrangement with them covers this.

It is accurate as far as you know. Atlas does not verify records against the physical product. The accuracy of a record is yours, and so is keeping it current.

C4. How we pass your data on, and what that means when you leave

Read this section before you publish anything. It is the part with a consequence you cannot undo.

Records retrieved from Atlas are made available to others under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY 4.0), crediting you as the source and Atlas as the directory. This is what lets a retailer put your product data into their shop without negotiating a separate agreement with you, and it is the reason the directory is useful to them.

CC BY 4.0 cannot be withdrawn from a copy once someone has taken it. So:

• You may delete a record at any time, and you may leave Atlas at any time. We will remove your records from the website, the API and the search index.
• Copies that others took before that remain licensed to them. We cannot recall them, and neither can you.

If that is not acceptable for a particular product, do not publish that product to Atlas.

C5. Getting in, and staying in

Providers reach Atlas by signing up or by invitation.

A signup is reviewed before anything is published. Until it is approved, you can sign in and see your account, but your records are not public and cannot be pushed.

An invitation is issued by us and needs no further approval. Accepting it activates your account.

We may suspend an account where records appear not to belong to the provider that published them, where the data is materially wrong and not corrected, or where use of the API disrupts the service. Suspension removes your records from public view; it does not delete them, and we will tell you why.

You may close your account at any time, with the effect described in section C4.

C6. What we provide, and what we do not promise

Atlas is provided as it is. We do not promise it will be available without interruption, and we do not promise any particular performance. We will not sell your records as a dataset.

If we make a material change to these terms, we will tell you before it takes effect, in enough time for you to withdraw your data if you disagree.

C7. Contact and law

Essential Code GmbH, Glücksallee 8, 3012 Wolfsgraben, Austria, david@essentialcode.eu. Governed by the law of Austria.