Scraping & Automation Policy

Automated access to AskBiz — other than through the published API — is prohibited without prior written consent from AskBiz.

This includes: web scraping, crawling, spidering, screen-scraping, data extraction tools, headless browser automation (Puppeteer, Playwright, Selenium), and any other automated means of accessing the AskBiz web interface.

AskBiz invests significant resources in developing its platform, algorithms, and content. Unauthorised automated access:

• Places disproportionate load on our infrastructure, degrading service for legitimate users
• May extract proprietary methodology and content in violation of our intellectual property rights
• Can constitute unlawful access under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 (UK) and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (US)
• May infringe database rights under EU law (Database Directive 96/9/EC)

We actively monitor for automated access patterns and will take enforcement action, including legal proceedings, against significant violations.

The following automated access is permitted:

• Published API — automated access via the AskBiz API with a valid API key and within rate limits
• Standard browser automation for accessibility — screen readers, accessibility tools, and similar assistive technology
• Search engine crawling — standard web crawlers from major search engines (Googlebot, Bingbot) are welcome to crawl our public pages (Help Center, blog, marketing pages). We maintain a robots.txt file.
• Authorised integrations — integrations explicitly built and published by AskBiz (e.g. Zapier, Make) that access AskBiz within the bounds of the published API

Academic researchers or organisations with a legitimate reason for automated access may request permission by emailing legal@askbiz.co with:

• Your name and institutional affiliation
• The purpose of the automated access
• The specific data or content you need access to
• How you plan to store and use the data
• The duration of access required

We assess requests on a case-by-case basis. We do not grant commercial scraping access.