Acceptable Use & Scan Authorization

Submit only URLs you are authorized to analyze

By starting a scan or competitive audit, you confirm that the submitted URL is a public-web resource and that you own it, administer it, have permission to analyze it, or otherwise have a legitimate basis to request a bounded public-web audit.

Do not use DiscoverGraph to

• attempt to bypass authentication, verification, paywalls, access controls or security protections;
• scan private networks, localhost, internal services or non-public resources;
• perform exploitation, credential attacks, vulnerability exploitation or destructive testing;
• evade rate limits, create abusive automated load or repeatedly submit failing targets to consume shared resources;
• submit URLs primarily to collect sensitive personal data, secrets or credentials;
• use reports to misrepresent measured facts, rankings, certifications or endorsements;
• violate applicable law or third-party rights.

Recurring calibration requires stronger authorization

Enrolling a registered product in the Calibration Program is different from requesting a one-time scan. You must own/administer that site or have permission to authorize recurring bounded calibration scans. Do not enroll a competitor or other third-party site merely because it is publicly reachable. Anonymous scans and one-time competitive audits never create recurring calibration permission.

Respectful crawling

DiscoverGraph uses bounded request budgets, timeouts and host concurrency limits. It does not intentionally bypass verification/interstitial layers. Machine Web Census crawling has a separately declared crawler identity and robots behavior on the crawler page.

Enforcement

We may refuse, rate-limit, suspend or terminate access when activity threatens the service, other websites, shared-hosting resources or third-party rights.