Terms and responsible use
Terms and Ethical Usage
Last updated: June 18, 2026. These terms set the standard for lawful, respectful, and client-authorized scraping, extraction, automation, and website scraping risk audit work.
These terms are written for a solo freelancer and are self-reviewed by DataCrawlPro for practical risk reduction. They cannot remove every legal issue. For regulated data, personal data, marketing lists, high-volume scraping, or cross-border projects, the client must confirm authority, lawful basis, and permitted use before work starts.
Who these terms cover
- DataCrawlPro is a full-time freelance service brand operated directly by Prashant Patil. It is not a registered company, large agency, big team, or hidden outsourcing team.
- These terms apply when you use the website, submit a request, open a private workspace, request scraping or audit work, approve a quote, pay, receive files, or communicate with DataCrawlPro.
- A separate written quote, statement of work, Upwork contract, or platform contract may add project-specific details.
Service scope
- Services may include web scraping, data extraction, Python scraping scripts, automation support, data cleaning, file delivery, and website scraping risk audits.
- Scraping and extraction services are separate from website scraping risk audits. A scraping audit is not a full cybersecurity penetration test, legal opinion, or guarantee of complete protection.
- DataCrawlPro uses AI-assisted workflow tools where useful, but communication, pricing, findings, reports, and deliverables are manually reviewed.
Legal and ethical data standard
- DataCrawlPro works only with public data, client-owned data, or data the client is authorized to access, provide, or request.
- Each project may be reviewed for applicable law, website terms, robots.txt signals, copyright/database rights, privacy rights, rate limits, contractual restrictions, and intended use.
- DataCrawlPro may refuse, pause, narrow, or cancel a request if the legal basis, authorization, data source, or intended use is unclear or risky.
- No service description should be read as a promise that every project is lawful in every country. Compliance depends on source, data type, method, client role, target jurisdiction, and end use.
Client responsibilities
- You confirm that you have the right to request the work and that the instructions you provide are accurate, lawful, and complete.
- You are responsible for how you use, store, publish, enrich, combine, resell, contact, profile, or transfer any delivered data.
- You must tell DataCrawlPro before work starts if the project involves personal data, regulated data, health data, financial data, children, account data, credentials, paywalled data, confidential data, or data subject to special regional rules.
- If you provide login access, API keys, files, or credentials, you confirm that you are authorized to provide them and that DataCrawlPro may use them only for the agreed project.
Prohibited requests
- DataCrawlPro does not help with unauthorized account access, credential abuse, malware, spam, phishing, doxxing, harassment, hidden surveillance, or private data theft.
- DataCrawlPro does not help bypass paywalls, login walls, CAPTCHAs, IP blocks, technical access controls, or anti-abuse systems unless the website owner or authorized controller has clearly permitted that work in writing.
- DataCrawlPro does not knowingly collect or deliver stolen data, secret keys, passwords, private messages, non-public personal records, or data intended for unlawful discrimination, fraud, or abuse.
- Requests that could disrupt a website, overload a service, violate platform rules, or create legal risk may be declined even if technically possible.
Personal data and country-specific laws
- Data protection, consumer protection, cybersecurity, database, copyright, contract, marketing, employment, and sector-specific laws differ across the US, EU, UK, Middle East, India, and other regions.
- If a project may include personal data, you may need a lawful basis, notice, consent, legitimate-interest assessment, data processing terms, retention limits, opt-out handling, transfer safeguards, or other regional steps.
- For cross-border or regulated projects, DataCrawlPro may request written client instructions, a data processing addendum, source permissions, or legal confirmation before starting.
- DataCrawlPro can support a responsible workflow, but the client remains responsible for authority, lawful basis, permitted use, and country-specific legal requirements.
Operational scraping safeguards
- Where a scraping project is accepted, DataCrawlPro aims to use reasonable request rates, scope limits, data minimization, public or authorized endpoints, and practical anti-abuse safeguards.
- DataCrawlPro may avoid fields that are unnecessary for the agreed business purpose, especially personal, sensitive, or regulated fields.
- DataCrawlPro may stop work if a source blocks access, sends an objection, changes terms, changes technical restrictions, or creates unacceptable risk.
- Delivered scripts are provided for the agreed use case. You are responsible for future use, schedule frequency, hosting, proxy choices, data retention, and source compliance after delivery.
Payments, refunds, and delivery
- Quotes should be reviewed before payment. Work may require partial or full payment through Upwork or another agreed direct method.
- Website checkout is paused. DataCrawlPro does not store payment card details, and payment is treated as confirmed only after Upwork or direct payment confirmation is reviewed.
- Delivery timelines depend on scope, website complexity, source stability, client response time, payment confirmation, and legal or technical review.
- Refunds, revisions, and support depend on the written quote, milestone agreement, platform rules, and whether work has already started or been delivered.
No guarantees and limitation of liability
- DataCrawlPro does not guarantee uninterrupted access to third-party websites, fixed source layouts, complete data availability, search rankings, AI recommendations, or 100% scraping-audit accuracy.
- Website scraping risk audits are practical exposure reviews. They are not full cybersecurity audits, penetration tests, compliance certifications, malware scans, or legal opinions.
- To the extent allowed by applicable law, DataCrawlPro is not responsible for indirect, incidental, consequential, punitive, lost-profit, lost-data, enforcement, or third-party claim damages from client misuse or unauthorized instructions.
- You agree to indemnify DataCrawlPro for claims, losses, or costs caused by your unlawful instructions, lack of authority, misuse of deliverables, breach of these terms, or violation of third-party rights.
Questions or legal review
Email contact@datacrawlpro.com before submitting a sensitive, regulated, cross-border, or unusual request. You can also review the Privacy Policy, Return and Refund Policy, and Shipping and Digital Delivery Policy.