: Can I place a directory that lists other companies contact details on my commercial website? Can I place a directory that lists other companies contact details and other relavent information on

@Gonzalez347

As long as you display public information there is no legal concern. Any business directory out there is providing the same information and you don't have to contact or read privacy notices - again as long as you don't display sensitive information.

You can even publish financial records of the companies if you have access to them as again, this is also public information.

Since you said it's good for your users I would suggest setting all the new pages on no index, do follow so Google won't index this duplicate content so you can run into Google related issues. (At the end of the day is the exact same content that is probably available on several other business directories.)

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@Odierno851

It's better to contact them and ask them first or as suggested read their terms of services. but if you can't, I recommend you to do some protections against spam crawlers or email address harvester robots and then put a disclaimer note somewhere near this listing.

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@Bryan171

You have to read each company's Terms of Use, or contact each company directly. Nobody can determine the legality of republishing content based upon the information you've given.

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