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@eloyellowbrasil

Data sources and licences

Last updated: Version 2.3

This translation is for information only. Only the German version is legally binding. Go to the German version

Overview

Listings on EloYellow Brasil come from four routes: businesses add themselves or take over their listing, we take facts from open datasets and from Google Maps, we check and complete them on the business’s website, and we do our own research. The source of each listing is shown on its profile under “Source and last update”.

We deliberately do not use Yelp, content from Instagram or Facebook, or other directories, including those of competitors. We do not copy other people’s photos, review texts or other texts. From Google Maps we only show the average star rating and the number of reviews, always with the source and separate from reviews on EloYellow Brasil.

Business listings

Overture Maps Places

Many listings are based on the open dataset Overture Maps Places by the Overture Maps Foundation (overturemaps.org). Overture combines data from several suppliers, each under its own licence:

SupplierLicence
Meta, Microsoft, BrightQuery, PinMeTo, Krick, RenderSEO, DACCommunity Data License Agreement Permissive 2.0
FoursquareApache License 2.0, with the Foursquare licence notice at the bottom of this page
AllThePlacesCC0 1.0

The profile shows which suppliers and which release a listing is based on. We have modified the data: we select listings using our own scoring system, remove duplicates and closed businesses, reassign categories and places, check details against the business’s website and correct or complete them.

Google Maps (Places API)

We find and complete some listings through the official Places API of Google Maps Platform. We take the name, address, coordinates, phone number, website, opening hours, category, Google’s identifier for the place (Place ID), the link to the Google profile, the average star rating and the number of reviews. We do not take photos or review texts. If we complete a listing from another source with details from Google Maps, the profile names those details under “Source and last update” with the source “Google Maps”.

Wherever we show stars from Google, the source “Google Maps”, the retrieval date and a link to the Google profile appear next to them. We do not show stars older than 70 days. They are kept separate from reviews on EloYellow Brasil, do not affect the order of listings and do not appear in the structured data for search engines. The Google Maps Platform Terms of Service apply.

Business websites

We check details such as address, phone number, opening hours, services and links to social networks on the business’s own website, including its legal notice. Our checking program respects robots.txt, makes few requests and identifies itself with its own name and a contact address. We only take facts, no texts, photos, logos or menus.

Information from the businesses themselves

Businesses that take over their listing maintain it themselves. Photos, logos and descriptions in such profiles come from them; they confirm to us that they hold the rights to them.

Events

We verify events on the organiser’s website, its official ticket sales or public event calendars that name the organiser. We take the title, date, time, venue, organiser, ticket link and price. We write descriptions ourselves.

Wholesale

We check suppliers in the wholesale section on their own website, including the legal notice and contact page. We only take facts; we write descriptions ourselves.

Places and postcodes

Cities, population figures, coordinates and postcodes come from GeoNames and are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. We have modified the data: for the location search we use all German municipalities, localities and postcodes in condensed form, and for the place pages a selection of places with our own translations of place names and our own addresses.

Maps

Map data: © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. We plan to generate the map tiles from this data ourselves and serve them from our own server. Our own tiles are not available yet; until then, the map only loads after your consent, via OpenFreeMap, which also uses OpenStreetMap data. Details are in the privacy policy. We only use OpenStreetMap data to display maps, not for the listings in the directory.

Region from the IP address

IP Geolocation by DB-IP: the IP to City Lite database is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. We use it on our own server to determine the federal state; the IP address is not passed on to anyone.

Editorial content

Guides, recipes and articles are written by our editorial team. We name sources in each article. Where AI helps with a draft, a person checks content, facts and sources before publication; editorial responsibility is stated in the Imprint.

Software

The website is built with free software, including Astro (MIT licence), MapLibre GL JS and PMTiles (both under the BSD-3-Clause licence). We drew the icons ourselves.

Errors and objections

If a detail is wrong, report it via Report content. If a listing about you or your business should disappear, use Remove a listing.

Image credits

If a business has no photos of its own, we show illustrative photos, as we do in some places on the site such as the home page and city pages. They do not show the business in question. Photos from Unsplash and Pexels are used under the Unsplash License or the Pexels License. Photos from Wikimedia Commons and Flickr are used under the Creative Commons licence stated for each one or are in the public domain; we have cropped and resized them.

The large image on the home page, the drawn symbols at the page edges and some illustrative images marked “Illustrative image (AI)” were created by us with AI (Magnific and Higgsfield, October 2026). They do not show real people or businesses listed on EloYellow.

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