API terms
The short version: use the data in your own product freely, publish figures with attribution, and don’t republish the dataset itself or resell access to it.
Your licence
While your subscription is active, you may use the data the API returns inside your own application, service, research or analysis, including commercially. You may store it, cache it, transform it, and show figures from it to your own users.
What the licence does not allow
- Republishing the dataset as a dataset. You may not redistribute bulk exports, dumps or substantial extracts of the registry, or make the data available as a feed, download or API of your own. Showing figures inside a product is fine; standing up a copy of the registry is not.
- Reselling or sharing access. Your key is for you or your organisation. Don’t share it, publish it, or let another business use your subscription as their data source.
- Training models on the data. The filings behind this registry come from an archive whose own terms say no AI training, and that restriction carries through to you. Using the API from an application that queries it at runtime is fine; using it to build a training corpus is not.
- Systematic copying. Requesting every company in order to assemble your own complete copy, whether by hand or by script, is outside the licence regardless of how many requests it takes.
Attribution
Where you publish figures from the API, attribute them to The Dividend Registry, compiled from official UK regulatory filings. Please don’t describe the data as coming from, endorsed by or approved by any regulator, exchange or filing channel, or use their names or logos in connection with it — the registry is an independent service and none of them are involved in it.
Accuracy, and what you must check
The registry is compiled from primary filings with care, and every record links to the announcement it came from. It is still a secondary record: issuers amend timetables and correct announcements, automated extraction can be wrong, and coverage is incomplete by design while it grows.
The data is provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including accuracy, completeness, or fitness for a particular purpose. For any decision that turns on a date or an amount, verify it against the issuer’s own announcement — which is why every record carries a link to it.
Nothing served by the API is investment, tax or financial advice, and nothing in it is a recommendation or inducement to buy, sell or hold any investment. The site disclaimer applies to the API in full.
Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, The Dividend Registry and its operator accept no liability for any loss or damage arising from use of the API or reliance on the data, including decisions made on the basis of it. Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot be excluded under the law of England and Wales — including, for a consumer, your statutory rights.
Your key
Your key is shown once, on the page after payment, and we keep only a hash of it — we cannot show it to you again. If you lose it, you can ask for a replacement: we email a sign-in link to the address you subscribed with, and opening it issues a new key and switches the old one off. The key itself is never sent by email.
You are responsible for what is done with your key. If you think it has been exposed, replace it.
Limits and suspension
Each plan has a monthly request allowance and a per-minute rate limit, both described on the API page. Reaching the monthly allowance stops requests until it resets; it never generates an extra charge.
If a payment fails, your key keeps working for three days while the payment is retried, then returns a payment error until a payment succeeds. We may suspend a key that is being used outside these terms, and will tell you why.
Payment, renewal and cancellation
Subscriptions renew automatically — monthly or yearly, as you chose — until cancelled. Prices include any UK VAT. You can cancel at any time and keep access until the end of the period you have paid for; we don’t charge again after that.
If you are buying as a private individual and cancel within 14 days of subscribing, we refund the days you have not used. Access begins immediately when you subscribe, which you confirm at checkout. After 14 days, there are no partial refunds for the period you are in.
If you are buying for a business, the 14-day consumer cancellation right does not apply, and the ordinary cancellation terms above do.
Changes
The API will gain endpoints and fields as the registry grows. We won’t remove or rename a field without notice to subscribers by email. If we change these terms in a way that materially affects you, we will tell you by email before it applies to your subscription, and you can cancel if you don’t accept it.
Law
These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and the courts of England and Wales have jurisdiction — which, if you are a consumer, does not affect your right to bring proceedings where you live.