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Last updated 9 October 2026

Who we are

DataSteak is a trading name of Digevo Limited, registered in England and Wales under number 16415485, registered office Flat 104 Peninsula Apartments, 4 Praed Street, London, England, W2 1JE. Our VAT number is GB 497 5025 58.

This page has two parts. Using this website applies to everyone who visits, whether or not you buy anything. Buying from us applies when you place an order.

Using this website

By using this site you agree to these terms. If you do not, please do not use it.

You may browse the site, read our product pages, view previews and samples, and buy datasets. You may not use the site in any way that is unlawful, that interferes with it working properly for other people, or that attempts to gain access to anything you have not paid for.

We may change, suspend or withdraw any part of the site, including any product, at any time. We do not guarantee the site will always be available or uninterrupted.

Where we link to other websites, we do not control them and are not responsible for their content.

Our content

The site itself, its design, code, text, product descriptions, documentation and the way our data is presented, is ours or licensed to us. The underlying public records are not ours, but the work of selecting, cleaning, structuring and describing them is.

You may not copy, republish or reuse the content of this site beyond what is normal for reading it, or what your dataset licence allows once you have bought something.

Automated access

You may not scrape this site. Specifically, you may not use bots, crawlers, scripts or any other automated means to extract, collect or copy our product listings, row counts, preview tables, sample files or documentation.

You may not enumerate product pages or repeatedly request sample files in order to assemble data you have not bought. Preview rows and free samples are there so you can judge whether a dataset suits you, not as a way to obtain the dataset itself.

Ordinary search engine indexing is fine and welcome.

We may rate limit, block or permanently refuse access where we believe this section is being ignored, and we do not have to warn you first.

Consumer or business

We sell to both businesses and individuals. Some of these terms apply differently depending on which you are.

You are buying as a consumer if you are an individual buying wholly or mainly for personal use, rather than for a business, trade or profession. Otherwise you are buying as a business. Sections that apply to only one of the two say so.

Where we sell

Businesses, in the UK and countries with UK adequacy. If you are buying for a business, trade or profession, we sell to you in the United Kingdom and in any country the UK has recognised as providing adequate protection for personal data. Our datasets contain registered office addresses, many of which are somebody’s home, so supplying a file outside those countries is a restricted transfer under UK data protection law and needs safeguards we put in place deliberately rather than automatically. If you are a business elsewhere, contact us before ordering and we will deal with it directly.

Consumers, United Kingdom only. If you are buying as a consumer, we can only sell to you if you are in the UK. Consumer sales into other countries carry tax and consumer protection obligations we are not currently set up to meet, so we would rather say so plainly than sell you something we cannot properly stand behind.

If you are a consumer outside the UK, please do not place an order. If an order is placed anyway, we may cancel it and refund you in full.

VAT outside the UK. Everything on the site is currently priced including UK VAT, and checkout applies that single price wherever you are. We are not yet set up to apply a VAT adjustment automatically at checkout. If you are a business outside the UK, contact us before ordering and we will deal with it directly rather than have you pay UK VAT you should not be charged. Where a local equivalent applies in your own country, accounting for it remains your responsibility.

What you are buying

A dataset product is a defined extract of data, prepared by us, delivered as a CSV file. Each product page states what the extract contains, which filters define it, the source it came from and the date that source was recorded.

You are buying that extract as it stands on the day you buy it. A one-off purchase is a snapshot. It does not include future updates or a live feed, and it does not include API access, which is arranged separately and per dataset. See API access.

Row counts shown on a product page change as the underlying source changes. The row count delivered to you is the count at the moment of purchase, and your order confirmation records it.

Price and VAT

Prices are shown including UK VAT. The price on the product page is the amount you pay, and checkout shows the split before you commit: the net amount, the VAT, and the total. If you are a UK VAT registered business you can normally reclaim the VAT shown. For buyers outside the UK, see Where we sell.

We may change prices at any time, but a change never affects an order already placed.

Placing an order

Your order is an offer to buy. The contract forms when we confirm the order and make your download available, not when you submit payment details.

Payment is taken by Stripe. We do not see or store your card details.

We may decline an order, for example where we cannot fulfil it or where we believe it breaches these terms. If we decline after payment, we refund in full.

Delivery

Delivery is immediate and electronic. Your file is generated when you buy it and is available on the confirmation page, and by a secure link sent to the email address you gave us. That link is valid for 30 days from purchase and allows up to 5 downloads, so download the file and keep your own copy. If you lose it or run out, email us with your order reference and we will help.

We never send the file as an email attachment.

Your licence

When you buy a dataset we grant you a non-exclusive, perpetual licence to use that extract. You may:

  • use it for any lawful business or personal purpose, including commercially
  • analyse it, combine it with your own data, and build reports, models or products on it
  • share it inside your own organisation

You may not:

  • resell, republish or redistribute the dataset itself, in whole or in substantial part, as a data product
  • present it as your own dataset for onward sale

In short, the insight is yours to use and sell. The file is not yours to resell as a file. If you need redistribution rights, contact us about enterprise licensing.

Where a dataset derives from a source carrying its own licence, such as the Open Government Licence, that licence continues to apply. The source, and the attribution it requires, are credited on the product page for that dataset and set out in full on our attributions page. If you publish or share anything built on that data, the source’s attribution requirement follows the data and becomes yours to meet.

Corrections and suppressions

Public registers change, and sometimes a record is removed rather than corrected. Where Companies House suppresses an individual’s home address, or a source corrects a record, the version in a file you already hold is superseded.

The perpetual licence above does not extend to continuing to use a value you know to be superseded. If we ever notify you that a record has been suppressed or corrected, you must stop using the superseded value and must not pass it on. Where you hold more than one edition of the same dataset, use the most recent of them for anything involving an identifiable person.

We do not monitor your copy of a dataset and we do not operate a notification service. Keeping your data current is done by taking a current edition.

Retention of personal data

The licence is perpetual, but personal data inside a dataset is not yours to keep indefinitely regardless of purpose. You must not keep records relating to identifiable individuals for longer than you need them for the purpose you obtained them for, and you should review that periodically.

This mirrors an obligation you already have in your own right, as set out in How you may use the data. It is stated here so that it is also a term of this licence.

If you access a dataset through the API

API access is arranged separately, per dataset, and runs for an agreed period. Everything above applies to data you receive through the API exactly as it applies to a downloaded file. This section only covers what is different about a connection rather than a file.

Your access ends. Your data does not. When the agreed period ends, or access is withdrawn, you stop being able to pull new data. Everything you had already received by that point remains yours under the same perpetual licence as a download. We do not ask you to delete it.

You may, and should, store what you pull. Keeping your own copy, caching it and refreshing it on your own schedule is expected rather than merely permitted. Our documentation asks you to check the edition date and skip the request when nothing has changed.

What you must not do with the connection, in addition to the restrictions above:

  • re-expose the data as an API, feed, endpoint or download of your own, whether free or paid, so that others can pull it from you
  • share your key outside your organisation, or use one key to serve a business that has not been granted access in its own right
  • work around the rate limits, for example by holding several keys for the same purpose

Building the data into your own product, and serving the results of it to your own users, is fine and is what the licence above already allows. Passing the dataset itself through to them is not.

Your key is your responsibility. It is shown to you once and we keep only a hash of it, so we cannot recover it and neither can anyone who obtains our records. Keep it secret, and treat anything done with it as done by you. If you think it has been exposed, revoke it in your account and tell us. We may suspend a key without notice if we believe it has been compromised or is being used outside these terms.

Availability. The API serves the current edition of a dataset. Editions are published on the schedule of the underlying source, which differs between datasets and is not something we control. We do not promise an uptime level, a response time, or that the interface will not change; where we change it in a way that would break an existing integration, we will tell you first. If you need a commitment on any of these, that is an enterprise arrangement and we should talk about it before you build on it.

How you may use the data

Once a dataset is in your hands, what you do with it is your responsibility. This section sets out what we expect, and what happens if it is ignored.

You take on your own obligations

Some of our datasets contain information about identifiable people, for example company officers and registered office addresses. When you buy one, you become responsible for that data in your own right. You decide what to do with it, so the law treats you as a controller of it, independently of us.

That means you need your own lawful basis for using it, and you must meet your own obligations under data protection law. Those obligations are yours, not ours, and they do not transfer with the file.

Direct marketing

If you intend to use the data for marketing, electronic marketing has its own rules in the UK beyond general data protection law, and they apply to you as the sender. Buying a dataset from us is not consent from the people in it, and we do not represent otherwise. Satisfying yourself that your campaign is lawful is your responsibility.

One restriction is ours rather than a reminder of yours. A large share of UK companies are registered at a director’s home, and Companies House cannot remove a home address while it is the current registered office. So a registered office address is often simply somebody’s house, and marketing to it is marketing to their home. That is prohibited below rather than left to your judgement, and we can end your access for it.

What you must not do

  • use the data for any unlawful purpose
  • send unsolicited direct marketing, by post or by any other means, to a registered office address that is, or appears to be, a residential address
  • use it to harass, profile or target individuals in their private capacity
  • attempt to re-identify anyone, or combine it with other data in order to do so
  • use it in a way that breaches the licence of the original source

If it goes wrong

We may refuse an order, or stop supplying you, where we reasonably believe the data is being used in breach of this section.

If you are a business, you agree to cover us for any claim, penalty or cost we suffer as a result of how you have used data bought from us. This does not apply to consumers, whose statutory rights are unaffected.

Cancellation

This section applies to consumers only. Business buyers have no cancellation right.

As a consumer you normally have 14 days to cancel a purchase of digital content and receive a refund. Because our files are delivered immediately, that right ends as soon as you download.

At checkout you are asked to tick a box confirming two things: that you want the file supplied straight away, and that you understand you lose the right to cancel once you download it. If you do not tick it, we cannot deliver immediately. If you tick it and then download, the 14-day right no longer applies.

If you tick it but have not yet downloaded, you keep the right to cancel within 14 days. Email us and we will refund in full.

Refunds and our guarantee

Separately from any cancellation right, and for consumers and businesses alike, we make this promise.

What we guarantee

That the file you receive matches the filter its product page describes, and matches the source date stated. That is the thing we are selling, and if we get it wrong we put it right.

Full refund

You get a full refund where the delivered file does not match what the product page promised. That includes the wrong data, the wrong filter applied, or a file that fails entirely.

No refund

Once you have downloaded a file that does match its description, we do not refund it. The file cannot be returned, and the work of preparing it has been delivered.

How to claim

Email hello@datasteak.co.uk with your order reference and what is wrong. A person reads every claim and replies. There is no automated refund button, because these need looking at rather than processing.

Accuracy

Our datasets are built from public registers and other sources. We guarantee that our extract is a faithful cut of that source on the stated date. We do not warrant the accuracy of the source itself. If a company's record is wrong at Companies House, our copy of it will be wrong too, and correcting it is a matter for the register that holds it.

Where a product describes a geographic cut, it means the address recorded at the source on the stated date. A registered office is not always where a business trades, and for newly formed companies it is often an accountant or formation agent.

Our liability

Nothing in these terms limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot be limited by law.

If you are a consumer, we are responsible for loss you suffer that is a foreseeable result of us breaking these terms. We are not responsible for unforeseeable loss. We do not exclude your statutory rights.

If you are a business, we are not liable for loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of anticipated savings, and our total liability for any order is limited to the amount you paid for it.

Data supports decisions, it does not make them. You are responsible for how you use what you buy, including checking that it is fit for the purpose you have in mind.

General

We may update these terms. The version that applies to your order is the one published when you placed it, and the date at the top tells you when this page last changed.

If any part of these terms turns out to be unenforceable, the rest continues to apply.

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction. If you are a consumer living elsewhere in the UK, you may bring proceedings in your own country.

How we handle your personal information is set out in our Privacy Policy.

Questions about these terms: hello@datasteak.co.uk.