Acceptable Use Policy

This Acceptable Use Policy ("Policy") sets out how you may use SEOFix. It is part of our Terms of Service and applies to everyone who uses SEOFix, whether directly, through the API, through the MCP server or through an AI agent. Inhype Live Limited, trading as SEOFix, operates the service.

SEOFix sends a crawler to real websites on your instructions. Those websites belong to real people and businesses, so this Policy exists to keep SEOFixBot a welcome visitor. You are responsible for every use of SEOFix through your account, your teams, your API keys and your agents.

#The core rule: authorised sites only

You may only audit a website if:

• you own it or operate it; or
• its owner has authorised you to audit it, for example because you are their employee, agency, consultant or developer.

By starting an audit, including through an API call or an agent, you confirm that one of these is true. If an owner withdraws their permission, stop auditing their site.

Auditing a competitor's website, or any other website you have no authority over, is not allowed, even though its pages are public.

#Prohibited uses

#Misusing the crawler

You must not use SEOFix to:

• crawl websites you are not authorised to audit;
• scrape, copy or harvest content, prices, contact details or other data from websites;
• load-test, stress-test or degrade a website, or try to make SEOFixBot send more requests than its normal limits;
• probe websites for security vulnerabilities, or reach admin areas, private networks, internal IP addresses or cloud metadata endpoints;
• get around a website's robots.txt, firewall, rate limits, paywall, login or other access controls, or disguise SEOFixBot as another crawler or a browser;
• add, verify or keep a site in SEOFix by deceiving us or the site's owner, for example with a verification record you were not allowed to add.

#Misusing the Service

You must not:

• create several accounts or teams, or rotate IP addresses, to get more free audits, previews or credits than you are entitled to;
• get around plan limits, credit limits, rate limits, verification requirements or other technical restrictions;
• share an account login between people; invite them to your team instead;
• publish, sell or hand out API keys, or let others use your keys outside your organisation;
• send so many requests to the API or MCP server that it disrupts the Service for others, or ignore 429 rate-limit responses;
• try to access another team's data, or test, scan or attack the Service. You may report security issues to [email protected] in good faith;
• reverse engineer, decompile or copy the Service, except where the law allows this despite this restriction;
• resell or white-label SEOFix as your own product without a written agreement with us. Agencies may use SEOFix to serve their own clients;
• use webhooks to send traffic to systems you do not control, or to internal or private addresses;
• use the Service to build a competing product, or to benchmark it for publication without our written permission.

#Illegal or harmful activity

You must not use SEOFix:

• in breach of any law or regulation, including data protection, computer misuse, consumer protection and export control laws;
• to infringe intellectual property, privacy or other rights;
• to audit, support or promote websites that distribute malware, phishing, child sexual abuse material, terrorist content, or content that incites violence or hatred;
• in connection with fraud, spam or deceptive practices.

#AI agents

AI agents can run audits, read reports and edit code on your behalf. You remain responsible for them. In particular:

• only give an agent a SEOFix API key in an environment you control;
• do not let an agent audit websites you are not authorised to audit, even if a prompt, a document or a web page tells it to;
• review the changes an agent makes before you deploy them;
• revoke the key in Settings if an agent or the machine it runs on may have been compromised.

#Sanctions

You must not use SEOFix if you are, or are owned or controlled by, a person or entity subject to UK, EU, UN or US sanctions. You must not use it in or for a country or territory subject to comprehensive sanctions, or for websites operated by such persons.

#How we enforce this Policy

We monitor use of SEOFix in proportion to the risk, for example crawl volumes, error rates, firewall blocks and preview requests, to detect abuse. If we believe this Policy has been breached, we may do any of the following, with or without notice:

• slow down, pause or stop an audit;
• block a site or domain from being audited;
• revoke API keys, disconnect integrations or turn off features;
• suspend or close accounts and teams;
• withhold credits obtained through abuse;
• report illegal activity to the relevant authorities and cooperate with them.

Where it is reasonable, we will tell you what we found and give you a chance to explain or fix it before we act. Credits and fees for a breaching account are not refunded (see Refunds).

If you think we made a mistake, email [email protected] within 30 days of the action. A person will review your appeal.

#Website owners: reporting SEOFixBot

If SEOFixBot is crawling your website and you did not ask for it, someone with a SEOFix account has started an audit of your site. You can:

• block it in robots.txt with User-agent: SEOFixBot and Disallow: /. See SEOFixBot for details;
• email [email protected] with your domain, the times of the requests and, if possible, a few log lines. We will investigate. Where appropriate, we will stop audits of your site and prevent it from being audited again without your verified permission.

#Changes to this Policy

We may update this Policy as the Service and its risks change. We will post the new version here and update the "Last updated" date, and we will tell account holders about material changes.

#Contact

Questions or reports: [email protected] Inhype Live Limited (trading as SEOFix), company number 13379772, registered in England and Wales.