Acceptable Use Policy

1. Purpose

This Acceptable Use Policy (“AUP”) sets the rules for using SEONOS — the website audit service at seonos.com. It exists to keep the Service safe, fair, and lawful for everyone, and to protect the websites that get scanned. This AUP is part of our Terms of Service; violating it may result in rate-limiting, suspension, or termination.

2. Scan Only Sites You Are Authorized to Scan

You may use SEONOS only to scan websites that you own or are authorized to manage on behalf of their owner. Submitting a URL for a deep report or monitoring confirms that you have permission to audit that site. You are solely responsible for ensuring you have the right to scan any URL you submit.

3. How SEONOS Accesses Pages

SEONOS fetches public pages the way a search engine crawler would, and a deep report may include an AI step that reads a rendered snapshot to verify on-page text. The Service is an analysis tool, not an attack or load-testing tool, and must not be used to probe, stress, or disrupt websites.

4. Prohibited Uses

You must not use SEONOS to:

• Scan, probe, or audit any site you do not own or are not authorized to manage.
• Attack, overload, denial-of-service, stress-test, or otherwise disrupt any website or server.
• Hammer sites with excessive, automated, or high-frequency requests, or attempt to bypass or evade our scheduling and rate limits.
• Circumvent, disable, or interfere with security, anti-abuse, or access controls — ours or anyone else’s.
• Access, collect, or expose data you are not authorized to access, or scan content behind authentication without permission.
• Infringe intellectual-property rights, violate privacy rights, or break any applicable law or regulation.
• Resell, redistribute, or build a competing crawling/scraping product on top of the Service without authorization.
• Upload or transmit malware, or use the Service to distribute spam or malicious content.
• Abuse free features — for example, by scripting the free soft scan to generate automated load, or creating multiple accounts to evade limits.

5. Rate Limits and Fair Use

Scans run on schedules and within capacity limits (for example, Whole-Site monitoring includes up to 200 pages, with paid expansion in increments of 100). We may apply rate limits and fair-use thresholds to protect the Service and the sites being scanned. Attempting to defeat these limits is a violation of this AUP.

6. Anti-Abuse Measures

To keep the Service and our forms safe, we use automated anti-abuse protections. These may include honeypot fields, submission-timing checks, language and content filters, and other signals used to detect automated or malicious activity. We may block, challenge, rate-limit, or discard requests that trigger these protections.

7. Enforcement

If we believe you have violated this AUP, we may — with or without notice — throttle or rate-limit your activity, suspend or terminate your account, remove offending data, and take any other action we consider appropriate, including reporting unlawful activity to the authorities. We may also act to protect the Service, our users, or third-party sites from harm.

8. Reporting Abuse

If you believe someone is misusing SEONOS — for example, scanning a site they do not control — please report it so we can investigate.

9. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Acceptable Use Policy from time to time. When we make material changes we will update the “Last updated” date above. Continued use of the Service means you accept the current AUP.

10. Contact Us

Questions or abuse reports? Contact us at [email protected].