Acceptable Use
Last updated: 2026-06-07 · Version 1.0
Crawlmouse crawls real websites on your instruction, so we hold everyone to a few clear rules. This Acceptable Use Policy is part of our Terms of Service; breaking it is a breach of those Terms.
Crawl only what you’re allowed to
You may only submit a site for auditing if you own it or are otherwise authorized to direct a crawl of it, and doing so does not violate the site’s terms, any law, or anyone’s rights.
Prohibited uses
You may not use Crawlmouse to:
- Crawl non-public, password-protected, login-gated, paywalled, or otherwise access-restricted content, or submit anyone’s credentials.
- Bypass or circumvent our rate limits, Turnstile challenges, or other protections — or a target site’s technical access controls, IP blocks, or CAPTCHAs.
- Submit non-HTTP targets, or internal, private, or loopback addresses (we block these to prevent server-side request forgery).
- Audit sites in order to attack, overload, harass, surveil, or otherwise harm them or their owners.
- Scrape, resell, sublicense, or repackage the service or its output as your own product.
- Publish a public report for a domain you have not verified you own, or spoof or tamper with domain verification.
- Collect or process personal data unlawfully, or violate anyone’s privacy rights.
- Harass others or abuse the takedown form (for example, filing false takedown requests).
Crawler etiquette we follow
We hold ourselves to the same standard. Our crawler requests only public pages while logged out, respects robots.txt, caps concurrency per host, backs off on 429/503 responses, identifies itself with a clear User-Agent, and stores derived structural data rather than copies of page content. We honor site-owner opt-out requests. The full details are on our crawler page.
Enforcement
If we believe you’ve violated this policy we may throttle your requests, suspend or terminate your account, block specific domains, and remove any public reports involved — with or without notice, depending on the severity and the risk to others.
Reporting abuse
If you see Crawlmouse being misused, or a public report about a domain you own that shouldn’t exist, tell us. Email abuse@crawlmouse.com or use the takedown form.