Acceptable Use Policy

You may use Shield Scraper to collect publicly available information for legitimate business purposes, such as price monitoring, stock and availability tracking, product catalog aggregation, regional comparison, market research, competitor monitoring, and change detection.

You must not use Shield Scraper for, or in connection with:

• Credential theft
• Account compromise
• Unauthorized access to private or authenticated information
• Fraud
• Fake traffic
• Spam
• DDoS or any other service disruption
• Malicious activity of any kind
• Unlawful collection of sensitive personal data

• Comply with all laws that apply to you and to the data you collect.
• Comply with your contractual obligations and the terms and policies of the websites you collect from.
• Collect only what your use case needs, and keep collection rates reasonable so you do not degrade the service of the sites you collect from.
• Give us accurate information about your use case when we ask for it.
• Keep your credentials secure and do not share them.

Shield Scraper does not determine whether a particular collection activity is lawful or permitted. That remains your responsibility.

To protect the platform, our customers, and third parties, Shield Scraper may, at our discretion:

• investigate suspected abuse, including reviewing request logs and usage patterns
• suspend individual customers or projects
• block individual domains or targets
• restrict or rate-limit traffic
• request information about a customer's use case
• rotate or revoke credentials
• terminate customers who violate this policy
• cooperate with upstream infrastructure providers where required

Where appropriate we will tell you why we acted, but we may act first where we believe it is necessary to stop harm.

If you believe Shield Scraper is being used in breach of this policy, write to abuse@shieldscraper.com.

We may update this policy from time to time. The date at the top of the page shows when it last changed.