Terms of Service
Last updated: 9 July 2026. gankdat ("we", "us") is operated from the United Kingdom by its operator. Contact: info@gankdat.com.
1. The agreement
gankdat is the trading name of Giovanni Funaro, a sole trader in the United Kingdom ("we", "us"). gankdat provides programmatic access to public datasets, normalized into one clean JSON schema and served via a REST API, an MCP endpoint for AI agents, and pay-per-request endpoints. By creating an account, creating an API key, or using the API — including via an AI agent acting for you — you agree to these terms. The service is intended for business and professional use.
2. Accounts & API keys
- Your account identity is your email address; sign-in is by emailed one-time link. Use an address you control — it is where billing and service notices go.
- API keys are shown once at creation and stored by us only as hashes. Keep them confidential: you are responsible for all activity under your keys, including by your applications and agents. Revoke a key immediately from your dashboard if it may be compromised.
- Keys belong to the account that created them and share that account's plan and monthly allowance.
3. Free tier & fair use
The free tier provides a limited monthly request allowance per account for evaluation and light use. Creating multiple accounts to multiply free allowances is not permitted. We may adjust free-tier limits over time.
4. Paid plans & billing
- Paid plans are monthly subscriptions billed via Stripe in GBP — or in USD/EUR, selected automatically at checkout by your location. They renew automatically each month until cancelled.
- Cancel any time from the billing portal ("Manage billing" on your dashboard); cancellation takes effect at the end of the paid period, and you keep your allowance until then.
- Credit allowances reset each billing period and do not roll over. One subscription covers every dataset in the catalog.
- If a renewal payment fails, Stripe retries; if payment ultimately cannot be collected, your account returns to the free tier.
- We may change prices with at least 30 days' notice; changes apply from your next billing period. Taxes (e.g. VAT) are added where the law requires.
5. Refunds
If something is wrong — an outage, a billing mistake, a plan that didn't do what we said — email info@gankdat.com within 14 days and we will put it right, including refunds where appropriate. We don't refund simply for unused allowance. Nothing in these terms reduces rights you have by law.
6. Pay-per-request (x402)
Endpoints under /x402/ accept per-request payment in USDC on the Base network,
with no account required. A payment is complete when it settles on-chain; settled payments
are non-refundable (we could not identify the payer to refund them). The
response to a paid request is delivered at the time of settlement.
7. Your use of the data — per-dataset licences
Each dataset in the catalog carries its own source licence and personal-data posture, set out in this table. If a dataset ever lacks an entry here, the defaults apply: Open Government Licence v3 and Blind Mode.
| Dataset | Source | Licence | Personal data |
|---|---|---|---|
uk-planning |
planning.data.gov.uk (official government feed) | OGL v3, Crown copyright — attribute the originating body if you republish | Blind Mode: applicant names and contact details are dropped at ingest, never stored or served |
uk-tenders |
Find a Tender (official OCDS feed) | OGL v3, Crown copyright — attribute the originating body if you republish | Blind Mode: contact and personal fields are dropped at ingest, never stored or served |
uk-contract-awards |
Contracts Finder OCDS search API (Cabinet Office; official award notices) | Open Government Licence v3 (declared in every response) — attribute Contracts Finder if you republish | Blind Mode: buyer and supplier organisation fields only; party contact persons, emails and phones in the source notices are never fetched, stored, or served |
uk-sanctions |
UK Sanctions List (FCDO official publication) | OGL v3, Crown copyright — attribute the originating body if you republish | As published, minimized: this dataset inherently names designated persons and entities, published by government for compliance purposes. We serve designation data (names, aliases, regime, dates, countries) and drop dates of birth, identity/passport numbers, contact details, and birth places at ingest. Conditions: use only for compliance, due-diligence, risk, research, or journalistic purposes; results are a screening aid, not legal advice — verify matches against the official list before acting. |
eu-ted |
TED — Tenders Electronic Daily (official EU procurement journal, api.ted.europa.eu) | Commission Decision 2011/833/EU — free reuse, including commercial, with source acknowledgement (© European Union, ted.europa.eu) | Blind Mode: only organisation-level fields are ingested; buyer contact persons and personal fields in the source notices are never fetched, stored, or served |
sam-exclusions |
SAM.gov Exclusions (US GSA official API) | US Government work (public domain). Address fields licensed from Dun & Bradstreet are removed at ingest and never served; where any D&B Open Data appears, D&B is the data source and bulk dissemination of it is not permitted | As published, minimized: this dataset inherently names excluded persons and entities, published by the US government for award-eligibility compliance. We serve exclusion facts (name, classification, type, program, agency, UEI/CAGE, dates) and drop all addresses, SSN/TIN/NPI identifiers, and free-text comments at ingest. Conditions: use only for compliance, due-diligence, risk, research, or journalistic purposes; results are a screening aid, not legal advice — verify matches against SAM.gov before acting. |
uk-insolvency |
The Gazette — corporate insolvency notices (official UK public record) | OGL v3, Crown copyright — attribute The Gazette if you republish | Blind Mode: corporate-notices-only slice; person fields and notice text in the source (which name individuals and insolvency practitioners) are never ingested, stored, or served — only company-level facts (name, notice type/code, dates) |
uk-companies |
Companies House advanced-search API (official; register public under the Companies Act 2006) | Crown copyright — attribute Companies House if you republish | Blind Mode: company-level fields only (name, number, type, SIC codes, incorporation date, registered-office locality/postcode); officer and PSC data are never ingested, and address lines are dropped at ingest |
uk-company-profiles |
Companies House public data API — company profile, charges, filing history and persons-with-significant-control resources, read on request (official; register public under the Companies Act 2006) | Crown copyright — attribute Companies House if you republish | Blind Mode: organisation-level fields only. Officer resources are never called; individual persons with significant control are dropped whole at ingest (only corporate and legal-person entries and the counts are kept); filing events carry the form type and description code, never the person's name; charge holders and registered-office address lines are dropped. Each lookup is cached for 24 hours |
uk-food-hygiene |
Food Standards Agency — Food Hygiene Rating Scheme open-data file (official, all UK) | Open Government Licence v3 — attribute the Food Standards Agency; rating artwork is not covered and is not served | Business data: trading name, type, trading address and rating fields as published (the FSA withholds addresses of businesses trading from a private address); the operator's free-text "right to reply" comment is dropped at ingest |
uk-sponsors |
Home Office — register of Worker and Temporary Worker licensed sponsors (GOV.UK) | Open Government Licence v3 — attribute the Home Office / GOV.UK if you republish | No personal data: organisation name, location, licence type/rating and route only |
uk-charities |
Charity Commission for England and Wales — register of charities, daily public extract | Open Government Licence v3 — acknowledge the Charity Commission as the source; do not misrepresent it | Blind Mode: organisation-level fields only. Contact address lines, phone and email are dropped at ingest (postcode kept); the trustee extract is never ingested |
uk-care-locations |
Care Quality Commission — weekly care directory of regulated locations in England | Open Government Licence v3 — attribute the Care Quality Commission if you republish | Location-level data: name, address and area, services, provider, latest check date. The public phone-number column is dropped at ingest; the monthly file with registered-manager names is never ingested |
uk-schools |
Department for Education — Get Information About Schools (daily establishment extract), with Ofsted monthly inspection-outcome management information joined by URN | Open Government Licence v3 — attribute the Department for Education and Ofsted if you republish | Establishment-level data: name, type and phase, status, address and area, website, capacity and pupil numbers, trust, and the latest Ofsted rating. Head teacher names and the telephone column are dropped at ingest; GIAS's governors extract is never ingested |
nhs-ods |
NHS England — Organisation Data Service nightly organisation extracts (GP practices, NHS trusts and sites, pharmacies, dental practices, independent healthcare providers) | Open Government Licence v3 — attribute NHS England (Organisation Data Service) if you republish | Organisation-level data: ODS code, name, type, status, region and ICB codes, address, open and close dates, parent organisation. The telephone column is dropped at ingest; the practitioner files (named GPs and dentists) are never ingested |
uk-trademark-journal |
Intellectual Property Office — weekly Trade Marks Journal (applications accepted and published for opposition), XML edition | Open Government Licence v3 — attribute the Intellectual Property Office if you republish | Public register data, reduced to organisation level: application number, mark text and type, classes and goods/services, dates, journal issue. An applicant or representative name is kept only when it is an organisation (corporate designator present); individual applicants are recorded as "individual or unincorporated" without a name, addresses are reduced to the country, and mark images are never stored |
uk-gambling-operators |
Gambling Commission — business licence register and premises licence register (daily public register files) | Open Government Licence v3 — attribute the Gambling Commission if you republish | Statutory public register, organisation level: licence number, status, type, activities and dates, the licensed business and its trading names, registered website domains, and business premises with their licensing authority and address. The personal licence registers (management and functional licences held by individuals) are never ingested |
Rules that apply to every dataset:
- You may use API responses in your own products, analyses, and services, including commercially, subject to the dataset's source licence above.
- You may not resell, mirror, or redistribute the API itself (i.e. offering our service, or wholesale access to it, as your product).
- Where a dataset runs Blind Mode, you may not use it to attempt to identify or profile individuals, alone or combined with other sources. If we add a dataset that inherently consists of personal data published by government for a specific purpose (for example a compliance list), its table entry will say so and state any additional use conditions — those conditions are part of these terms for that dataset.
8. Data disclaimer
Data is normalized and cached from official feeds and provided "as is". We
do not guarantee accuracy, completeness, or timeliness (each response carries a
last_refreshed_at timestamp), and nothing served by the API is legal,
financial, or professional advice. For decisions that matter, verify against the official
source.
9. Acceptable use
- No unlawful use, and no use that disrupts, overloads, reverse-engineers, or circumvents the service's security, rate limits, or metering.
- No attempting to re-identify individuals from any data, alone or combined with other sources.
- Respect the rate limits and allowances of your plan; automated/agent traffic is welcome within them.
10. Availability & changes to the service
We aim for high availability but offer no formal SLA at this stage; the service may be interrupted or updated. Datasets may be added to the catalog, and we may modify or retire a dataset — where a retirement affects paying customers we will give reasonable notice.
11. Intellectual property
The platform — API, software, normalization logic, schema, and documentation — is ours. The underlying government data remains Crown copyright under the OGL. Your applications are yours.
12. Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law: the service is provided without warranties; we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost profits, or decisions made in reliance on the data; and our total liability arising from the service in any 12-month period is capped at the fees you paid us in that period (or £100 if you paid none). Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including for fraud or for death or personal injury caused by negligence.
13. Suspension & termination
You may stop using the service and cancel at any time. We may suspend or revoke keys, or terminate accounts, for breach of these terms, abuse, or non-payment — where practical we will warn you first. Sections that by nature survive (data licence obligations, liability, governing law) survive termination.
14. General
These terms are the whole agreement between us about the service. If part of them is found unenforceable, the rest stands. We may assign this agreement to a successor operator of the service (for example, a company formed to run it); you will be notified and your service is unaffected. Our not enforcing a term is not a waiver of it.
15. Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction — except that nothing prevents either of us relying on mandatory consumer protections where they apply.
16. Changes & contact
We may update these terms; material changes will be posted here with a new date and, for account holders, notified by email when they matter. Continued use after a change takes effect is acceptance. Questions: info@gankdat.com.