Effective Date: January 13, 2026
Last Updated: January 13, 2026
These Terms of Service ("Terms," "Agreement") constitute a binding legal agreement between you ("you," "your," "Customer," "Subscriber") and CrawlReady ("CrawlReady," "we," "our," "us"). By accessing or using the CrawlReady website at crawlready.app ("Site"), application programming interface ("API"), middleware integrations, command-line tools, or any related services (collectively, "Services"), you agree to be bound by these Terms and our Privacy Policy, incorporated herein by reference.
IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, YOU MAY NOT ACCESS OR USE THE SERVICES. If you are entering into these Terms on behalf of an organization or legal entity, you represent and warrant that you have the authority to bind that entity to these Terms, and references to "you" shall refer to that entity.
CrawlReady provides an AI readiness platform designed to optimize websites for artificial intelligence crawlers, agents, and generative AI systems. Our Services include, but are not limited to:
To access certain features of the Services, you must create an account by providing a valid email address and completing the registration process through Clerk (our authentication provider). You may register using third-party authentication providers such as Google or GitHub.
You must be at least 16 years of age to create an account and use the Services. By registering, you represent and warrant that you meet this age requirement and that all information you provide is accurate, current, and complete.
You are responsible for:
You agree not to share your account credentials with third parties or permit others to access your account. CrawlReady is not liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to maintain account security.
If you create an account on behalf of an organization, you represent that you have authority to bind that organization to these Terms. Organization accounts may have multiple authorized users, and the account owner is responsible for managing user permissions and ensuring compliance with these Terms.
CrawlReady offers the following subscription tiers:
Paid subscriptions are billed in advance on a monthly or annual basis. Payment is due at the start of each billing cycle and will be automatically charged to the payment method on file. We use Stripe for payment processing, and you agree to provide accurate and complete payment information.
We reserve the right to modify subscription pricing at any time. Price changes will not affect your current billing cycle and will take effect upon your next renewal. We will provide at least 30 days' notice of price increases via email. If you do not agree to a price increase, you may cancel your subscription before the new pricing takes effect.
Fresh crawls are metered and count toward your monthly allocation. A "fresh crawl" is defined as a new rendering or scan of a URL that is not served from cache. Cached responses (content served from cache within the TTL window) are unlimited for paid tiers. Exceeding your fresh crawl allocation will result in additional per-crawl charges at the then-current overage rate, or requests may be rate-limited at our discretion.
All fees are exclusive of applicable taxes, duties, or similar governmental assessments, including VAT, sales tax, and GST (collectively, "Taxes"). You are responsible for paying all Taxes associated with your subscription, except for taxes based on CrawlReady's net income. If we are required to collect Taxes, they will be added to your invoice.
We offer a 14-day money-back guarantee for new paid subscriptions. If you are not satisfied with the Services within 14 days of your initial subscription purchase, you may request a full refund by contacting support@crawlready.app. Refunds for subsequent billing cycles are provided at our sole discretion.
You may cancel your subscription at any time through your account settings or by contacting us. Cancellations take effect at the end of the current billing cycle. You will retain access to paid features until the end of the prepaid period. No refunds will be provided for partial billing cycles, except as provided in Section 5.1.
Overage charges for usage beyond your subscription allocation are non-refundable. You are responsible for monitoring your usage and upgrading your plan as necessary to avoid overage charges.
You may use the Services only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms. Permitted uses include optimizing your own websites or websites for which you have lawful authority to make modifications.
You agree not to:
We reserve the right to investigate and take appropriate action against any violation of this Acceptable Use Policy, including suspending or terminating accounts, reporting violations to law enforcement, and pursuing civil remedies. We are not obligated to monitor user activity but may do so to enforce these Terms or comply with legal obligations.
You retain all ownership rights to content you submit to the Services, including website content, URLs, and configuration data ("Your Content"). By using the Services, you grant CrawlReady a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to access, crawl, render, transform, cache, and serve Your Content solely as necessary to provide the Services.
You represent and warrant that: (a) you own Your Content or have obtained all necessary rights and permissions; (b) Your Content does not infringe on any third-party intellectual property, privacy, or proprietary rights; and (c) Your Content complies with all applicable laws and these Terms.
The Services, including the Site, API, software, algorithms, scoring methodologies, user interface, design elements, trademarks, logos, and documentation (collectively, "CrawlReady IP"), are owned by CrawlReady and protected by copyright, trademark, patent, and other intellectual property laws. These Terms do not grant you any ownership rights to CrawlReady IP.
Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license to access and use the Services solely for your internal business purposes. This license terminates automatically upon termination of your account or violation of these Terms.
CrawlReady may generate derivative content from Your Content, including rendered HTML snapshots, Schema.org JSON-LD markup, diagnostic reports, and optimized content transformations ("Generated Content"). You retain ownership of Generated Content based on Your Content, and we grant you a perpetual, irrevocable license to use Generated Content for any lawful purpose.
If you provide feedback, suggestions, ideas, or feature requests ("Feedback"), you grant CrawlReady a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, modify, and incorporate Feedback into the Services without attribution or compensation.
We may use aggregated, anonymized, or de-identified data derived from Your Content and usage patterns for analytics, product improvement, benchmarking, marketing, and research purposes. Such aggregated data does not identify you or your websites and is owned by CrawlReady.
If you use the Free Tier, optimized content served to AI crawlers will include a backlink to CrawlReady in the form of a `<link rel="ai-analytics" href="https://www.crawlready.app">` HTML tag. This backlink is not visible to human users and serves as attribution for the free service. Paid tiers do not include this backlink. You agree not to remove, obscure, or tamper with the backlink when using the Free Tier. Attempts to circumvent the backlink may result in account suspension or termination.
The Services rely on third-party providers for certain functionality, including:
Your use of these third-party services is subject to their respective terms of service and privacy policies. CrawlReady is not responsible for the availability, functionality, or security of third-party services.
You may integrate the Services with third-party platforms, frameworks, or tools (e.g., Next.js, WordPress, Cloudflare Workers). You are responsible for ensuring that your use of integrations complies with third-party terms and that integrations do not interfere with the proper functioning of the Services.
References to third-party products, services, or companies do not constitute endorsements or recommendations by CrawlReady. We are not liable for any issues arising from your use of third-party services.
For paid subscriptions at the Pro tier and above, we target 99.9% uptime for core Services (API endpoints, diagnostic scans, analytics ingest, and content serving) calculated on a monthly basis, excluding scheduled maintenance.
We may perform scheduled maintenance with at least 24 hours' advance notice via email or in-app notification. Scheduled maintenance windows do not count toward downtime for SLA purposes.
If uptime falls below 99.9% in a calendar month (excluding scheduled maintenance, force majeure, or customer-caused outages), you may be eligible for service credits as follows:
Service credits are your sole remedy for downtime. To request credits, you must submit a claim to support@crawlready.app within 30 days of the end of the affected month with details of the downtime experienced. Credits are applied to future invoices and cannot exceed one month's subscription fees.
The SLA does not apply to: (a) Free Tier users; (b) downtime caused by third-party services, internet connectivity, or your infrastructure; (c) beta or experimental features; (d) scheduled maintenance; or (e) force majeure events.
Our collection, use, and disclosure of personal information is governed by our Privacy Policy, available at /privacy-policy. By using the Services, you acknowledge that you have read and understood the Privacy Policy.
To the extent that CrawlReady processes personal data on your behalf as a data processor under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Data Processing Agreement (DPA) available at crawlready.app/dpa is incorporated into these Terms. If you are subject to GDPR, you must execute the DPA to use the Services.
You are responsible for: (a) obtaining all necessary consents and authorizations for collecting and processing data through the Services; (b) complying with applicable privacy laws, including GDPR, CCPA, and ePrivacy Directive; (c) posting appropriate privacy policies and cookie notices on your website; and (d) ensuring lawful basis for transmitting user data to third-party services.
If you deploy AI Crawler Analytics, you acknowledge that: (a) only AI crawler requests are logged, not human visitors; (b) no personally identifiable information (PII) of end users is collected; (c) no cookies are set on end user browsers; and (d) analytics data is retained for 90 days by default (configurable in account settings).
THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS," "AS AVAILABLE," AND "WITH ALL FAULTS." TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, CRAWLREADY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO:
NO ORAL OR WRITTEN INFORMATION OR ADVICE PROVIDED BY CRAWLREADY OR ITS REPRESENTATIVES SHALL CREATE A WARRANTY. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
CrawlReady does not control, endorse, or assume responsibility for third-party content, including websites you submit for scanning. You access third-party content at your own risk.
We may offer beta, experimental, or preview features marked as such. Beta features are provided "as is" without warranties of any kind and may be discontinued at any time without notice.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL CRAWLREADY, ITS AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, LICENSORS, OR SERVICE PROVIDERS BE LIABLE FOR:
CRAWLREADY'S TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING FROM OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICES SHALL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF: (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID TO CRAWLREADY IN THE TWELVE (12) MONTHS PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO LIABILITY, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED EUROS (€100).
THESE LIMITATIONS APPLY REGARDLESS OF THE LEGAL THEORY (CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE) AND WHETHER OR NOT CRAWLREADY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT FULLY APPLY TO YOU.
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless CrawlReady, its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors, and service providers from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, expenses, or fees (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising from or relating to:
CrawlReady reserves the right to assume exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification, in which case you agree to cooperate with our defense. This indemnification obligation survives termination of these Terms.
We reserve the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue the Services (or any part thereof) at any time, with or without notice, for any reason, including to: (a) improve functionality or security; (b) comply with legal requirements; (c) address technical issues; or (d) respond to market conditions. We are not liable for any modification, suspension, or discontinuation of the Services.
We may modify these Terms at any time. Material changes will be communicated via: (a) email notification to the address associated with your account; (b) prominent notice on the Site; or (c) in-app notification. Changes take effect 30 days after notification unless you object by discontinuing use of the Services and closing your account. Your continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance of the modified Terms.
Changes to subscription pricing are governed by Section 4.3.
You may terminate your account at any time by canceling your subscription through account settings or contacting us at support@crawlready.app. Termination takes effect at the end of the current billing cycle (for paid accounts) or immediately (for free accounts). You will not receive refunds for prepaid fees, except as provided in Section 5.1.
We may suspend or terminate your account and access to the Services immediately, without notice, if: (a) you violate these Terms or the Acceptable Use Policy; (b) your account is subject to fraudulent or illegal activity; (c) we are required to do so by law or legal process; (d) you fail to pay fees when due (30-day grace period for unintentional non-payment); or (e) we discontinue the Services entirely.
Upon termination: (a) your right to access and use the Services ceases immediately; (b) we may delete Your Content, account data, and cached content within 90 days (you may export data before termination); (c) outstanding fees become immediately due; (d) cached content and optimized pages are removed from our CDN; and (e) API keys and access tokens are revoked.
The following sections survive termination: 7 (Content and Intellectual Property), 12 (Disclaimer of Warranties), 13 (Limitation of Liability), 14 (Indemnification), 17 (Dispute Resolution), and 18 (General Provisions).
These Terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of France, without regard to conflict of law principles. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) does not apply.
Any disputes arising from or relating to these Terms or the Services shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Paris, France. You irrevocably consent to the jurisdiction and venue of these courts.
Before initiating formal legal proceedings, you agree to attempt to resolve disputes informally by contacting us at legal@crawlready.app with a detailed description of the dispute. We will attempt to resolve the dispute within 60 days.
Notwithstanding Section 17.2, CrawlReady may seek injunctive or equitable relief in any court of competent jurisdiction to protect intellectual property rights, confidential information, or to enforce acceptable use provisions.
These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy and any executed Data Processing Agreement, constitute the entire agreement between you and CrawlReady regarding the Services and supersede all prior or contemporaneous agreements, communications, or understandings, whether written or oral.
You may not assign or transfer these Terms or any rights or obligations hereunder without our prior written consent. CrawlReady may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets. Any prohibited assignment is void.
If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable by a court of competent jurisdiction, the remaining provisions shall remain in full force and effect. The invalid provision shall be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable while preserving its intent.
No waiver of any term or condition of these Terms shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or any other term. Failure to enforce any right or provision does not constitute a waiver of that right or provision.
CrawlReady is not liable for any failure or delay in performance due to causes beyond our reasonable control, including acts of God, war, terrorism, riots, embargoes, acts of civil or military authorities, fire, floods, accidents, pandemics, strikes, or shortages of transportation, facilities, fuel, energy, labor, or materials. In the event of force majeure exceeding 30 days, either party may terminate the Agreement upon written notice.
The Services may be subject to export control laws and regulations, including those of the European Union and the United States. You agree to comply with all applicable export and import laws and not to export, re-export, or transfer the Services to prohibited countries, entities, or individuals.
If you are a U.S. government entity, the Services are provided as "commercial computer software" and "commercial computer software documentation" under FAR 12.212 and DFARS 227.7202. Use is governed solely by these Terms.
These Terms do not create a partnership, joint venture, employment, agency, or franchise relationship between you and CrawlReady. You have no authority to bind CrawlReady or make representations on our behalf.
These Terms are for the benefit of you and CrawlReady only and do not confer any rights upon third parties, except as expressly provided (e.g., indemnified parties).
Notices to you may be sent to the email address associated with your account and are deemed delivered 24 hours after sending. Notices to CrawlReady must be sent to legal@crawlready.app and are deemed delivered upon receipt.
These Terms are drafted in English. Any translation is provided for convenience only. In the event of conflict, the English version controls.
If you have questions about these Terms or the Services, please contact us:
These Terms of Service were last updated on January 13, 2026. Previous versions are available upon request.