Terms of use

OwnedBy is operated by Touch Grass AB, registered as 559484-7435 in Sweden. Using the site means these terms apply between you and Touch Grass AB.

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Each record is a reading of public sources — corporate registries, regulatory filings, legal-entity identifiers, and companies’ own published documents — assembled to show who ultimately benefits from a brand. Every record lists the sources behind it and carries a confidence word describing how well its conclusion is supported.

Records can be incomplete, out of date, or wrong. Ownership changes, disclosure varies by country and by company type, and some structures are not published at all. A record is our best supported reading at the time it was generated, not a certification of fact, and the confidence word on it is the honest ceiling of what it holds.

Nothing here is financial, investment, legal, tax or professional advice, and nothing here is a recommendation to buy, avoid, boycott or invest in anything. OwnedBy reports who benefits; what that should mean to you is yours to decide.

Appearing in the Canadian brands directory, or beside a search, is not an endorsement. A category match never earns an ownership badge.

If you are making a commercial, legal or regulatory decision, verify the underlying sources yourself. They are linked on every record for exactly that reason.

If you are named in a record, or you represent a company that is, and you believe the record is wrong or incomplete, tell us through the add or correct page. Say which record, what is wrong, and — where you can — what the correct position is and which public source shows it.

Corrections are checked against sources rather than applied on request, because a record that changed whenever a named party asked would be worth nothing to the person reading it. Records are append-only: a correction is visible as a change rather than as a quiet edit, and we keep both when a fact was true and when we learned it.

Where a record concerns a natural person rather than a company, and you want it reviewed under applicable data-protection law, the same route reaches us and the privacy page describes what is held.

You may read, search, link to and quote the records, including in reporting, research and teaching. Attribution to OwnedBy is appreciated and a link is better than a screenshot, because a link stays correct when the record is revised.

Please do not scrape the site in bulk, run automated extraction against it, or republish the records as a dataset of your own. Not because the underlying facts are ours — they are public, and they belong to everyone — but because the compilation, the verification and the confidence grading are the work, and a copy stripped of the sources and the confidence words is the confidently-wrong artifact this product exists to prevent. A public API is where this is going; if you need programmatic access, that is the conversation to have.

Please also do not attempt to disrupt the service, circumvent its rate limits, or use it to harass anyone named in a record.

If you ask us to email you a report, we send it, and asking also subscribes you to occasional OwnedBy news. Every message identifies the sender and carries an unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing stops the news without affecting anything else. The privacy page sets out what is stored and on what basis.

The service is provided as it is, without a promise of availability. Features may change, records may be revised or withdrawn, and the whole service may be suspended or discontinued. We do not guarantee that any particular record will remain available at a particular address, although record addresses are meant to be durable and are treated as such.

To the fullest extent the law allows, Touch Grass AB is not liable for loss arising from reliance on a record, from the service being unavailable, or from any decision taken on the basis of what is published here. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited, including liability for fraud, for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or any statutory consumer right you have that cannot be excluded.

These terms are governed by the law of Sweden. If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory rules of law in the country where you live.

If these terms change, the date at the top changes with them. Continuing to use the site after a change means the revised terms apply. Questions about anything written here can go through the add or correct page.