Trust · rules before purchase
Allowed use, by example
The acceptable use policy is the rule. This page applies it to the situations buyers ask about, so you can tell before you pay whether your work is welcome.
| What you want to do | Position | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Tracking public product prices across markets | Allowed | Considerate request rates, and the site's terms are yours to read. |
| Checking how your adverts render in other countries | Allowed | A core use of residential and mobile routes. |
| Monitoring search rankings for your own keywords | Allowed | Subject to the search engine's terms. A SERP API handles this without you running browsers. |
| Collecting public pages to build a training corpus | Allowed | Record the terms of each source. Personal data in public pages is still personal data. |
| Testing your own site from other locations | Allowed | Include the harness on the method page. |
| Collecting data from behind a login you hold | Ask first | Depends on the site's terms and the data. Tell us the site and the purpose. |
| Creating accounts automatically | Ask first | Depends on scale, the site and intent. Some forms of it are refused. |
| Heavy crawling of a small site | Ask first | Volume that degrades a service for its real users is prohibited. We will ask for your rate. |
| Testing stolen or leaked credentials | Refused | Credential stuffing and account takeover are prohibited. |
| Scraping personal data to profile or locate a private person | Refused | Harassment and stalking are prohibited. |
| Bulk unsolicited messaging, phishing or fake-account farms | Refused | Fraud and abuse infrastructure are prohibited. |
| Reselling access without a written agreement | Refused | Ask us about a reseller arrangement first. |
The examples are illustrative, and the policy governs where they differ. Not sure where your work falls? Ask [email protected] before you start. Seen misuse? Report abuse.
Test it on your own targets.
Create an account, run the measurement harness against your real workload, and read the numbers before you commit to anything.