Data Licenses

Some of the data shown on this site — and republished through our public API and feeds — is derived from third-party open databases. This page lists those sources, the licenses they carry, and what that means if you reuse data you obtained from us.

VNDB: The Visual Novel Database

Parts of our catalog's tag and metadata vocabulary (for example the theme and content tags used for browsing and filtering) are derived from VNDB, whose database is made available under the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0 with individual contents under the Database Contents License (DbCL) v1.0 (see VNDB's data license page).

Contains information from VNDB (https://vndb.org), which is made available under the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0.

Scope

• Covered: the VNDB-derived portions of our tag/metadata vocabulary and the per-title tag assignments built from them (the themeTags fields in our public feeds and any tag fields in API responses).
• Not covered: everything else in the catalog — product listings, prices, descriptions, images, curation, and editorial content — is our own or our partners' and is not licensed under ODbL. All rights reserved unless stated otherwise.

Reusing the tag data

If you extract or redistribute the VNDB-derived tag data you obtained from us, the ODbL applies to you too: keep the attribution notice above intact, and license any derivative database of that data under the ODbL. The VNDB-derived tag assignments we publish are available in machine-readable form through our public catalog feeds (for example /feed/products.json), which satisfies the ODbL's availability requirement for the derivative data we publicly use. Our JSON API and feed responses carry a machine-readable license stanza with the same notice.

Questions about data licensing? Contact us.