What LeadForge provides, and what it asks of you.

1. The nature of the information

Every business record LeadForge displays originates in public data — principally OpenStreetMap, plus, when you explicitly request it, information published openly on a business’s own website. The application relays that data; it does not author, verify, correct or certify it.

Results are informational. They are a starting point for your own research, not a validated dataset, and they should never be treated as a register of trading businesses.

2. No guarantee of accuracy or completeness

Coverage in open map data varies by region and by category, and individual records vary in quality. A listing may be missing, out of date, duplicated, incorrectly categorised, or attached to a business that has moved or closed. Contact fields such as phone numbers, websites and opening hours are frequently absent altogether.

LeadForge makes no representation that any result is accurate, current or complete, and the absence of a business from a result set is not evidence that the business does not exist.

3. You must verify before you act

You are responsible for confirming that a business exists, that it is the business you think it is, and that a contact detail is current and appropriate to use, before contacting it or relying on the record for any decision. Practical verification steps are described in Responsible business outreach.

4. Your legal obligations for outreach

Rules governing marketing, unsolicited messages, telephone calls, electronic mail and the handling of contact information differ substantially between countries and, in some cases, between states or provinces. Obligations may apply to you regardless of where the data came from or where this site is hosted.

By using LeadForge you accept that complying with the law that applies to you — including any registration, consent, disclosure, record-keeping and opt-out requirements — is entirely your responsibility. LeadForge cannot and does not assess whether your intended use is lawful in your jurisdiction, and nothing in this product should be read as advice that it is.

5. Acceptable use

You agree not to use LeadForge:

• to send indiscriminate bulk messages, unsolicited commercial messages at scale, or any communication to recipients who have asked not to be contacted;
• to conduct automated or high-volume extraction from this deployment, the public Overpass service, or the map tile service — these are shared community resources intended for considerate interactive use;
• to circumvent rate limits, result caps, category limits or any other control in the application, whether by scripting the interface or by calling the API directly;
• to attempt to bypass authentication, paywalls, access controls, or any technical or contractual restriction on a business’s website during contact discovery;
• to compile or redistribute collections of personal contact information, or to target individuals rather than businesses;
• to misrepresent who you are or why you are making contact, including in any message that references information found here;
• to interfere with the operation, security or availability of this site or the services it depends on.

Contact discovery in particular is limited by design — a small number of listings per request, a business’s own public pages only, and no attempt to read anything behind a login. Using it as a general-purpose crawler is outside the intended use of the tool.

6. Public data, used responsibly

Open data is open so that it can be used, including commercially. That openness does not by itself make every use appropriate: a published business telephone number exists so that customers can reach that business, and a person’s name appearing in a public record does not make it a marketing list. Use the data for purposes a reasonable business owner would recognise as legitimate, keep the volume of contact proportionate, and stop contacting anyone who asks you to.

7. Upstream data providers and attribution

Data supplied through LeadForge remains subject to the licences of its providers. OpenStreetMap data is © OpenStreetMap contributors and licensed under the Open Database License; the bundled city index derives from GeoNames; map tiles and styles are served by OpenFreeMap. If you republish or redistribute records obtained here, you are responsible for meeting the attribution and share-alike conditions those licences impose. The data and attribution page sets out each source.

8. No buying-intent signal

LeadForge reports that a business of a certain type is mapped at a certain location, and how complete its public listing is. It does not infer, model or imply that a business is in the market for anything, is dissatisfied with a current supplier, or is likely to respond. The completeness score describes the record, not the business. Treating it as a purchase-intent score would be a misreading of what the product measures.

9. The software

LeadForge is published under the MIT License. You are free to read, modify, self-host and redistribute the source under the terms of that licence, which is included in the repository. The MIT License governs the software itself; it does not grant rights over third-party data accessed through the software.

Consistent with that licence, the software is provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind, express or implied. The authors and copyright holders are not liable for any claim, damages or other liability arising from the software or its use. This hosted deployment is offered on the same basis and may be changed, rate-limited or taken offline at any time; the public services it depends on are operated by others and may be unavailable independently of anything LeadForge does.

10. Advertising on this site

The four guide articles carry advertising served by Google AdSense. The application workspace, the guides index and the policy pages do not. How advertising cookies are used, and how to opt out of personalisation, is described in the privacy policy.

11. Changes

These terms may change as the software changes. The current version is always the one published at this address, and the underlying code changes are visible in the public repository history. Continuing to use the site after a change means the updated terms apply to your use.