Data sources and rights

Sources

Public cases rest on public-record material: determinations-committee decisions and statements, regulatory and securities filings, court filings, issuer documents and press releases. Each source family carries a rights classification that decides how much of it may appear on CDSBench:

• SEC EDGAR · U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissionpublic source — brief excerpts with a link to the source

Publicly accessible does not mean freely reproducible. Where the terms permit only reference, CDSBench shows the derived facts, a citation and a link to the authoritative document — never a mirror of it. Licensed material used internally for verification is not shown, indexed, exported or used to train anything.

Attribution

Every public case lists its sources with publisher, document title, date, retrieval date and a link to the original where linking is permitted. Attribution is a statement of origin — publishers named on CDSBench do not endorse it.

Verification

A real case is published only when both gates pass: its outcome is independently verified (two independent extractors plus an evidence check, or an official outcome statement naming the instrument) and its sources permit public use. An outcome can be correct and still unpublishable; both must hold. Material that fails the rights gate is kept out of public pages, search, exports and the API.

Internal-only and licensed material is never added to public totals.

Private documents

Documents uploaded for a private analysis are classified customer-private by default: no publication, no search, no indexing, no training. For long documents, such as an indenture, only the sections that state the terms it checks are sent to our AI model provider (Anthropic); short documents (under about 60,000 characters) are sent whole. This is for that customer’s own analysis only; it does not train on them and keeps them for up to 30 days under its own policy. You can publish your own case yourself with “Make this case public”: you confirm that you hold the rights to publish the documents and the facts derived from them, and any violation and its risk are yours — CDSBench acts on your instruction and does not review the material first. Removal is available on request. See what the current code does and the privacy policy.

Corrections

Factual errors are corrected transparently: the record is fixed and the change is logged with the previous and current version. Removals for source-rights reasons are logged the same way, without confidential detail. To report an error, write to the address below.

Rights holders and takedown

If you are a rights holder and believe material appears on CDSBench without permission, or you want a correction, write to support@cdsbench.com with the page URL and the document concerned. A takedown request disables the document, removes public excerpts, updates the sitemap and re-checks anything that depended on it; the internal audit history is preserved. The same address handles licensing questions.