Acceptable use policy

This policy applies to everyone who uses Ranktide: the website, the app, the API, the MCP server and the free tools. It is part of our Terms of service. If you break it, we may limit or end your access.

1. Illegal or harmful use

Do not use Ranktide to:

• break any law, including privacy, consumer protection and intellectual property laws;
• store, send or link to illegal content, malware or phishing pages;
• harass, threaten, defraud or impersonate anyone.

2. Crawling and site audits

• Audit sites you own or manage, or sites you have permission to audit. Auditing other public sites is fine at the scale of a normal SEO audit.
• Do not use audits or the crawler to attack, overload or stress-test a site, to look for security weaknesses, or to get past logins, paywalls or other access controls.
• Our crawler follows robots.txt and slows down when a site asks it to. Do not try to get around that.
• Use crawler access settings, such as a saved store crawler signature, only for sites you control.

Site owners can read how our crawler identifies itself and how to block it on the crawler page.

3. Data and API use

• Do not resell or redistribute raw data from Ranktide as a data feed or standalone data product.
• Do not scrape the app. Use the API or MCP server, within your plan's limits.
• Do not get around rate limits, plan limits or credit metering.
• Keep API keys secret, and give each integration its own key.

4. Accounts and seats

• Each seat is for one person. Do not share a login to avoid paying for seats.
• Do not create extra accounts or organisations to collect more free credits.
• Do not create a new account to get around a suspension.

5. Free tools

• Use the free tools by hand, in a browser. No scripts, bots or automated querying.
• Do not bypass the bot check (Cloudflare Turnstile) or the daily limits.
• Do not use the free tools as a data source for another product.

6. AI features

• Do not use the AI assistant or other AI features to produce spam, including mass-produced pages meant to manipulate search rankings against search engines' spam policies.
• Do not use them to create deceptive, defamatory or illegal content.
• Do not try to make an AI feature reveal other customers' data, our system instructions or secrets.

7. Security

• Do not access, or try to access, other customers' data or accounts.
• Do not interfere with Ranktide's operation, for example with denial-of-service attacks or by flooding it with requests.
• Do not reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble Ranktide, except where the law allows it.
• Only test Ranktide's security under our responsible disclosure policy.

8. Connected accounts and third parties

Only connect Google accounts, Search Console properties, Analytics properties and DataForSEO accounts you are allowed to use. Follow those services' own terms.

9. Enforcement

If we believe you have broken this policy, we may warn you, stop an audit or other job, rate-limit or pause features, remove content, or suspend or close the account. We may report illegal activity to the authorities. Where we can, we will tell you what happened and why. We do not refund fees or credits when we act on a breach, except where the law requires it.

10. Reporting misuse

To report misuse of Ranktide, email support@ranktide.io. To report a security issue, email security@ranktide.io.