Data Sources

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Last updated: October 5, 2026

Peonix uses a small number of public reference datasets, translation models and one outside address service. This page names them and gives the attribution their licences require, and says plainly which of them ever receives something you typed.

United States postal codes, cities and states

Source: GeoNames — the postal-code export for the United States, published at download.geonames.org/export/zip.

Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). It permits commercial use and requires attribution; this page is that attribution.

What we use it for. When you type a ZIP code or a city name into an address field, Peonix offers matching places so that city, state and ZIP can be filled in one tap instead of typed three times. It is also what makes the sales-tax setup short: a shop enters its ZIP and its state follows.

What we changed. We keep three columns — postal code, place name, state — and drop the rest of the export. We also drop rows outside the fifty states and the District of Columbia, which removes military (APO/FPO) addresses and overseas territories.

Where it lives. The dataset is stored with the application and is read from memory. Looking a place up in it does not send anything to GeoNames or to any other outside service, and Peonix does not record what is typed. This is the only thing that runs on our online store: a buyer placing an order reaches no outside service at all.

Street addresses in the shop's own order form

Source: Geoapify address autocomplete, built on OpenStreetMap data.

Licence and attribution. Geoapify's free plan requires the credit Powered by Geoapify; the underlying map data is published under the Open Database Licence 1.0 and requires the credit © OpenStreetMap contributors. This page is those credits.

What we use it for. When a florist types a delivery address into an order, Peonix offers complete addresses so the street, city, state and ZIP are filled in one tap. Only the street line goes into the address field; the city, state and ZIP each go into their own.

What leaves, and what does not. The partial address being typed is sent to Geoapify to be matched, together with a map point in the middle of the shop's state that only nudges the order of the results — nothing else. No name, no phone number, no email address, no order and no payment detail is sent, and the address is not sent with anything that identifies who it belongs to or which shop is asking. Peonix does not record what is typed: it counts how many lookups a shop made, and nothing about what they were.

Where this does and does not happen. Only in the shop's own order form, used by its staff. It does not happen on our online store — when a buyer types their own address there, it stays with us and is matched against the postal dataset above.

If the service is unavailable. The suggestion is a convenience, never a requirement: when Geoapify cannot be reached the address is typed by hand and the order is saved exactly as before.

Translating a shop's website

Source: the OPUS-MT translation models by the Language Technology Research Group at the University of Helsinki (Jörg Tiedemann and Santhosh Thottingal, OPUS-MT — Building open translation services for the World, EAMT 2020), published on Hugging Face as Helsinki-NLP/opus-mt-en-es, opus-mt-en-ru, opus-mt-es-en, opus-mt-es-ru, opus-mt-ru-en and opus-mt-ru-es.

Licence. The Russian-to-English model is published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0), which permits commercial use and requires attribution; this page is that attribution. The other five are published under the Apache License 2.0.

What we use them for. Peonix translates the texts a shop writes for its online store — the home page, the menu, the footer, its pages, section names, product descriptions and photo captions — into the other two of English, Spanish and Russian, so a visitor can read the store in their language. Product names and the shop's name are left as written. Translations are made by the models alone and can contain mistakes.

What we changed. We converted the models to a compact format (CTranslate2, 8-bit weights) so they run on an ordinary server. The translations themselves are not otherwise changed.

Where it runs. On our own server. Translating a shop's website sends nothing to Helsinki, to Hugging Face or to any other outside service, and no translation is billed per use.

Corrections

GeoNames data occasionally lags a postal change. If a place is missing or wrong, write to support@peonix.app and we will pick up a newer export; corrections to the source itself can be reported to GeoNames directly. Street addresses come from OpenStreetMap, which anyone may correct at openstreetmap.org.