Terms of Use

Welcome

Ihsan Standard (the “Site”) is a public registry of Muslim-owned businesses, nonprofits, and community institutions in the United States, paired with an independent audit framework against published standards. Use of the Site is conditioned on your agreement to these terms.

1 · Permitted use

You may browse, search, and consult the directory for personal, non-commercial discovery — finding a halal restaurant, choosing a vendor, verifying an audit report, locating a mosque. Owners and verified representatives may claim and edit their listings.

2 · Prohibited uses

The following are forbidden:

• Automated harvesting / scraping. Any program that mass-fetches listings, downloads the directory in bulk, or otherwise accesses the Site at a rate or scale beyond ordinary human browsing.
• Republishing the directory as a competing database, target list, sales lead list, or any aggregated dataset.
• Use for targeting, surveillance, or harassment. We exist precisely because Muslim community lists have been used historically to target our institutions. Anyone using this directory to target Muslim-owned businesses, congregations, or individuals — physically, digitally, or commercially — is in flagrant violation of these terms and of the principles for which this project was built.
• Defeating access controls. Rotating IPs, forging user agents, distributing requests across networks to evade rate limits, or otherwise circumventing the technical protections on this Site.
• Reselling access. No paid or unpaid redistribution of directory contents.
• Training generative AI on directory contents without an explicit written license.

Violations may result in IP bans, civil action under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (18 U.S.C. § 1030) and applicable state computer-crime statutes, and referral to law enforcement when the use materially endangers community safety.

3 · Bulk / programmatic access

Legitimate research, journalism, academic study, and partner-institution use cases can be served by formal agreement. Contact us at standards@ihsanstandard.org to discuss a data-use agreement. We have approved access for academic researchers and partner organizations before; we will not grant access for marketing lists, target lists, or any purpose at cross-purposes with the community we serve.

4 · Listing accuracy + claim flow

Listings are sourced from public records (state Secretary-of- State filings, federal NPI / CMS, halal-certification authorities, community directories) and human attestations. Inaccuracies happen. If you are the owner or authorized representative of a listed organization, you may:

• Claim the listing and correct it — start at /claim-listing for any listing; nonprofits can also claim directly from their org page at /orgs/<slug>/claim.
• Request takedown if the listing is wrong or unwanted.
• Submit evidence supporting or contesting an audit finding.

If the self-service flow doesn’t fit your case, email listings@ihsanstandard.org for manual review. We action ownership-verified takedown requests as quickly as we can.

5 · Audit framework

The Ihsan Standard audit framework grades organizations against published rubrics. Audits are conducted in good faith from public records and on-site verification. Any organization may submit evidence, contest a finding, or request re-audit following our published process. We disclose conflicts of interest where they exist — see the COI banner on every audit report.

6 · Privacy

We do not use third-party analytics, ad networks, social-media tracking pixels, session replay, or any other surveillance tooling, and we never sell or share user data. For aggregate traffic understanding — page views, referrers, and visitor country — we run our own self-hosted, cookieless analytics: it counts unique visitors with a privacy-preserving daily-rotating hash instead of cookies, does not retain raw IP addresses, and the data never leaves our own infrastructure. The only other data we retain about visitors is short-lived rate-limit state used to enforce these terms.

7 · Changes

These terms may be updated. Material changes will be announced on the homepage for 30 days before taking effect.

8 · Contact

For ownership claims, audit appeals, data-use agreements, or press inquiries, email standards@ihsanstandard.org.