# Terms — dc-business-license-records

> Terms of use, the source's conditions and the U.S. legal notices.

## Terms

### Using the site

The pages are free to read and link to. Nothing here is legal advice, a license, a certificate or a consumer report.

### The sources, and what they require

This site republishes public registers. Source by source: the licence it is published under, and the condition its publisher sets — read from the publisher's own terms page, on the date shown.

| Source | Licence | What the publisher requires |
|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia, Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection — Basic Business Licenses | CC BY 4.0 | Attribution. We credit the District of Columbia, link the license, state on every page that this site is not affiliated with the District, and say that records are grouped and filtered (no sole proprietors, no owner names). — Terms read on 2026-10-01, terms |

### ⚠️ Not a consumer reporting agency

This site is **not** a consumer reporting agency as defined by
the **Fair Credit Reporting Act** (15 U.S.C. § 1681 et seq.), and
nothing published or sold here is a consumer report.

You may not use this site, its pages, its search, its API or any dataset
obtained from it, in whole or in part, as a factor in deciding a person's
eligibility for:

- **employment**, promotion, reassignment or retention;
- **credit** or insurance underwriting;
- **housing** or tenancy;
- any other purpose covered by the FCRA.

Verifying that a licence exists, directly with the issuing authority, is a
different act from screening a person — and where a decision about someone
depends on it, the check belongs with a screening company that operates as a
consumer reporting agency and carries the obligations that come with it.

### Having your entry removed

If you are named on this site and would rather not be, [write to us](/contact.md) and we will remove you. You do not have to explain why, and we
will not ask.

Two things this cannot do, and we say so plainly rather than let you find
out later: it does not change the official register, which is where the record
actually lives; and it does not remove you from anyone else's copy of the same
public data.

### Publisher

This site is published and operated by an individual. Contact details are on [the contact page](/contact.md). Hosting is provided by Cloudflare, Inc.

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Página: https://dc-business-license-records.pages.dev/terms/
Fonte: https://opendata.dc.gov/datasets/85bf98d3915f412c8a4de706f2d13513
Recolha: 2026-10-01