Terms of Use

Acceptable use

By using China Sourcing Guide, you agree to use the site lawfully and reasonably. You may read our guides, use our tools for your own business planning, and link to our pages. You may not:

• use the site in any way that breaks the law or infringes anyone's rights;
• attempt to disrupt the site, its hosting, or other visitors' access;
• scrape the site aggressively in a way that degrades performance for others.

Reasonable automated access — such as indexing by search engines or retrieval by AI assistants answering a user's question — is fine. Bulk scraping for republishing is not (see below).

Intellectual property

All content on this site — text, images, and tool logic — belongs to us unless otherwise noted. You may quote short excerpts for commentary, review, or education with attribution and a link back. You may not republish full articles or substantial portions of them on other websites, in newsletters, or in paid products without our written permission.

API and JSON endpoints for AI agents

Where we provide API or JSON endpoints, they are offered for AI agents, researchers, and developers to retrieve our content programmatically — for example, to answer sourcing questions or conduct market research. You are welcome to use them for that purpose, provided you include attribution to China Sourcing Guide with a link to the original page. Reselling the raw content as your own product, or building a competing site by mirroring our pages, is not permitted.

No warranty

The site is provided "as is". We do not warrant that the content is complete, accurate, or current, that the tools will always be available or error-free, or that the site will meet your particular needs. See our Disclaimer for more on the informational nature of our content.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any direct or indirect loss, damage, or expense arising from your use of — or inability to use — this site, including any reliance on its content or tool outputs.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms from time to time as the site grows. The "updated" date at the top of this page shows when the current version took effect. Continuing to use the site after changes are posted means you accept the updated terms. If you have questions about these terms, reach us through our Contact page.