Provenance and permissions

Data sources & licences

See which public and open datasets CompanyBeacon uses, what their terms permit, and where our public-output boundaries sit.

Shared catalogue status: Shared catalogue checked 2026-08-28: 6 relevant source families represented by 259 versioned objects. Catalogue presence and harvest completion are not publication approval.

Candidate layers for better company answers

Relevant catalogue families and their possible CompanyBeacon role
FamilyHarvest statusPossible roleLatest object
companies-house2 of 2 harvest-completeUK company identity and exact company-number status; officer, PSC and personal fields remain excluded unless separately approved.24 August 2026
gleif4 of 4 harvest-completeExact LEI identity and disclosed parent relationships; no fuzzy ownership inference.28 August 2026
ted175 of 175 harvest-completeDated EU procurement-history research after supplier identifiers and contract semantics pass a bounded projection.24 August 2026
sanctions2 of 3 harvest-completeCurrent compliance research only; failed or stale lists never become a clear-screening result.28 August 2026
sec-edgar1 of 1 harvest-completeUS filing links for exact identifiers; filings are not UK company facts.16 August 2026
wikidata1 of 1 harvest-completeEntity reconciliation candidate; never sole evidence of ownership or legal status.12 August 2026

Object availability is not a claim that a family appears in public company profiles. Every new join still requires an exact identifier, current rights and freshness checks, a separately approved public projection, a visible source date and a material improvement to the company decision.

Storage proves possession, not publication permission. The table lists only sources used in CompanyBeacon public output after a recorded commercial-use and derivatives check. This is a multi-source provenance catalogue, not a downloadable dataset landing page.

Public and open data in use

Public and open datasets used by CompanyBeacon and their reuse permissions
DatasetLicenceCommercial useDerivatives
Companies House free company data product and public registerLegal identity, company status and filing dates. CompanyBeacon does not republish raw officer, PSC, address or date-of-birth fields.
Public-register reuse approvalYesYes
Contracts Finder notice dataStructured contract-notice facts and exact published GB-COH supplier identifiers; supplier attachments are excluded.
Open Government Licence v3.0YesYes
Charity Commission register of charitiesRegistered-charity facts used in exact-identifier public-record projections.
Open Government Licence v3.0YesYes
GLEIF LEI Golden Copy and API dataLEI records matched only by the exact Companies House registration-authority identifier RA000585.
CC0 1.0YesYes
ONS CPI annual rate (D7G7)Inflation context in CompanyBeacon UK indicator reports.
Open Government Licence v3.0YesYes
ONS regular pay growth (KAI7)Pay-growth context in CompanyBeacon UK indicator reports.
Open Government Licence v3.0YesYes
ONS UK vacancies (AP2Y)Vacancy context in CompanyBeacon UK indicator reports.
Open Government Licence v3.0YesYes
ONS UK unemployment rate (MGSX)Labour-market context in CompanyBeacon UK indicator reports.
Open Government Licence v3.0YesYes
ONS quarterly GDP growth (IHYQ)Growth context in CompanyBeacon UK indicator reports.
Open Government Licence v3.0YesYes
Bank of England official Bank Rate historyInterest-rate context in CompanyBeacon UK indicator reports.
Open Government Licence v3.0YesYes
HM Land Registry UK House Price IndexHousing-market context in CompanyBeacon UK indicator reports.
Open Government Licence v3.0YesYes
DESNZ weekly road fuel pricesOperating-cost context in CompanyBeacon UK indicator reports.
Open Government Licence v3.0YesYes
Department for Transport road safety dataAggregate collision, casualty and vehicle context; no person-level records are published.
Open Government Licence v3.0YesYes
Department for Transport road traffic statisticsAggregate annual-average daily flows and public count-point context.
Open Government Licence v3.0YesYes
Department for Transport NaPTANAggregate public-transport access-node context.
Open Government Licence v3.0YesYes

15 source families reviewed. Every listed source currently permits both commercial reuse and derivatives, subject to its linked terms, attribution and any third-party or personal-data restrictions.

Attribution and modification notices

CompanyBeacon outputs may select, normalise, join or calculate from these sources. Those modified outputs are labelled as facts, calculations or interpretation and should be checked against the linked primary source before a decision.

Freshness is separate from rights

Public projections15 September 2026
UK indicators harvested23 August 2026
GLEIF snapshot11 August 2026
Daily report generated15 September 2026

These are operational observation dates, not claims that every upstream record changed on that day. No record counts are shown here unless they can be tied to a current dated manifest.

What is not listed

Private raw holdings, backup archives, credentials, commercial feeds and contract-specific data are not public datasets and are not exposed here. Curated fund-to-company memberships are editorial research, not an open government dataset. The Companies House D1 projection is a relevant subset, not the full register; supplier aliases are published only where an exact GB-COH identifier resolves to that subset. Officer, PSC, address and date-of-birth fields remain outside public output.