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Here are some answers to the most commonly asked questions. Do you have other questions? Ask them!

How can I contact the Open Beauty Facts team, ask questions or make suggestions?

You can ask questions or make suggestions on the Idea Forum or contact us by e-mail: contact@openbeautyfacts.org

製品に関する情報とデータは検証されていますか?

情報とデータは、Open Beauty Facts の寄稿者によって提出されます。 The contributors also send pictures of the product, its labels, ingredients lists and health and beauty claims. 疑わしい場合は、訪問者が自分で正確さを確認し、誤りがあればその場で修正することができます。

潜在的なエラーをより簡単に検出するために、自動チェックを段階的に追加します。 e.g. e.g. if the ingredients of a product are very different from products of the same category, it may be an error. If the nutriments add up to more than 100%, it's definitely an error.

Finally, many producers send us photos and data about their products using our Platform for Producers. If you are a producer, please contact us

メーカーのサイト、ショッピングサイト、その他のサイトの商品写真やデータを追加できますか？

Probably not. Almost all other sites forbid reproduction and reuse of their data and images, and that's actually the reason why we are creating Open Beauty Facts: to make all this data available to all and for all uses.

したがって、法的な問題を回避するために、寄稿者には、自分で撮った写真のみを追加し、製品のパッケージとラベルから取得したデータのみを追加するようお願いします。

I am a cosmetics product manufacturer, can I add my own products?

はい はい はい はい はい 唯一の条件は、データと写真がオープンライセンスの下で利用可能になることを受け入れることです。 (see the Terms of contribution)

当社は、サイズに関係なく、製品に関する写真やデータを簡単にインポートできる無料のプラットフォームを開発しました。 It will let you import complete and up-to-date data and visuals into Open Food Facts that will be visible in more than 100 other nutritional apps. Additionaly, the platform provides suggestions to improve the Nutri-Score of your products. Contact-us to discuss how we could proceed: producers@openfoodfacts.org

What is the difference with other web sites, services and mobile applications that already allow to view cosmetics products information?

The main difference is for us a critical one: our data is freely available to all and for all uses. これがオープンデータと呼ばれるものです

他のほとんどすべてのサイト、サービス、およびアプリケーションは、他の人がデータを複製および再利用することを禁じています。 Quite to the contrary, the jealously keep it for themselves. In almost all cases, their terms of service explicitly forbid any non-personal use and any extraction of all the data or parts of the data.

We consider that cosmetics products information is too important and useful to keep it locked in a safe. So we decided to do exactly the opposite: not only we allow use and reuse of our database, freely and without fee, to everyone and for all uses (including commercial), but we also encourage it!

Making the data publicly available (what is know as open data) allows individuals, associations, companies, researchers etc. from all around the world to think up and develop applications for the data that we certainly would never have thought about.

What is Open Beauty Facts' economic model

Contributors are volunteers. Their contributions are gathered in an open database that can be used by everyone and for all uses. (see the Terms of reuse)

Everyone (including but not limited to Open Beauty Facts contributors and creator) can thus redistribute and/or reuse the data to build web sites, services, software, mobile applications, or to write articles and studies. They are free to make the resulting work freely available, or to sell or monetize it (e.g. with ads), as long as they respect the terms of reuse.

We are also strictly independent from the food industry, and all the services and software we build are free. For example, our Platform for Producers is totally free, and we are all the more pleased with that because we think it might help them improve their products.