Website and Documentation Terms of Use
1. About these terms
1.1 These terms govern your access to and use of www.screamingfrog.co.uk and any sub-domain (the Website), including the Documentation. The Website is operated by Screaming Frog Ltd, registered in England and Wales (company number 07277243), registered office Century House, Wargrave Road, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, RG9 2LT (we, us).
1.2 By accessing or using the Website you agree to these terms. If you do not agree, you must not use the Website. If you access the Website on behalf of an organisation, you confirm that you have authority to accept these terms on its behalf. If you use an AI System or other Automated Means to access the Website, you accept these terms for that access and are responsible for it under clause 7.
1.3 If you hold a licence to our Software, the EULA also applies (SEO Spider EULA. Log File Analyser EULA). If these terms and the EULA conflict in relation to your use of the Software, the EULA prevails. Otherwise, both apply.
1.4 Our Privacy Policy, at www.screamingfrog.co.uk/privacy/, explains how we use personal information collected through the Website.
2. Definitions
2.1 In these terms:
AI System means any machine learning model, large language model, AI assistant, autonomous or semi-autonomous agent, code-generation tool or similar system, whether operated by you or a third party.
Automated Means means any robot, spider, crawler, scraper, script, AI System or other automated process used to access, copy or extract Content.
Competing Product means any software, service, tool, plug-in, extension, script, code repository or other product, whether commercial or free, open-source, internal or personal, and whether written by a person or generated wholly or partly by an AI System, that provides functionality substantially similar to, or that is marketed or described as an alternative to, replacement for, or clone or copy of, all or any material part of our Software. A general-purpose AI System is not a Competing Product merely because it can be used to perform tasks similar to those our Software performs.
consumer means an individual acting for purposes wholly or mainly outside their trade, business, craft or profession, and business means anyone who is not a consumer.
Content means all material on the Website, including text, Documentation, images, screenshots, videos, code samples, data, page layout and design. Some third-party material on the Website is also subject to its owner’s terms.
Documentation means the user guides, tutorials, help text, FAQs, issues library, release notes, configuration and file format descriptions and any other material we publish about our Software, in any form, including Markdown, plain-text and other machine-readable versions.
EULA means the end user licence agreement for the relevant Software.
Software means the Screaming Frog SEO Spider, the Screaming Frog Log File Analyser and any other software we make available, including free versions.
3. Ownership
3.1 We, or our licensors, own all copyright, database rights and other intellectual property rights in the Content. All rights not expressly granted in these terms are reserved.
3.2 “Screaming Frog” (UK registration UK00002536503) and the Screaming Frog logos (UK registrations UK00002582270 and UK00003560542) are registered trade marks of Screaming Frog Ltd in the United Kingdom. We also claim rights in the names “SEO Spider” and “Log File Analyser” as used for our Software, and in our other unregistered names, logos and get-up.
4. What you may do
Provided you comply with clause 5, you may:
(a) view the Content, and print or download individual pages, for your own reference or to use our Software;
(b) share links to the Content, and share extracts with colleagues and clients to help them use our Software;
(c) quote short extracts with a clear acknowledgement and a link to the source;
(d) use search engines and AI search services to index, find and display the Content, including in AI-generated answers that link to or credit the source;
(e) use an AI System, including AI search and AI assistants, to find, read, summarise or answer questions about the Content in response to an individual user’s request, for example to learn how to configure a crawl or interpret a report, but not for any purpose prohibited by clause 5; and
(f) use the Content to train or fine-tune an AI System, or compile datasets for that purpose, so that it can describe our Software and help people use it, provided that the AI System is not, and is not intended to be, a Competing Product or a component of one. This permission is given to the developer of the AI System and the compiler of the dataset only. It does not permit anyone to use that AI System for a purpose prohibited by clause 5.
These are the only rights we grant to use the Content. They are granted on condition that you comply with clause 5, and any use of the Content outside them, or in breach of clause 5, is not licensed.
5. What you must not do
5.1 You must not, and must not permit, instruct or assist any person or AI System to:
(a) use the Content, or any specification, requirements document, prompt, feature list, summary or other material derived from it, as a specification or source material for designing, developing, training, improving or documenting a Competing Product, whether directly or by means of an AI System (including an AI coding tool or agent), and including by instructing an AI System to base a Competing Product on our Software, the Content or its knowledge of them;
(b) reproduce, republish, translate or adapt the Documentation, or any substantial part of it, or its distinctive presentation (including screenshots, help text and error messages), in any other product, or in the documentation, help text or marketing of any other product;
(c) use the Content to train, fine-tune or ground an AI System that is, or is intended to be, a Competing Product or a component of one, or include it in a retrieval index, knowledge base or dataset used by or for a Competing Product, unless we have agreed a licence in writing;
(d) provide the Content to an AI System, or direct an AI System to it (including by uploading, pasting or summarising it, giving the AI System a link to the Website, or allowing an AI agent to browse the Website), for the purpose of generating a Competing Product, or of replicating or reconstructing all or part of our Software, its user interface or the Documentation;
(e) use Automated Means to copy or extract the Content in bulk, except for indexing, retrieval, training and dataset compilation permitted by clause 4(d), (e) and (f), or for ordinary SEO, accessibility or link analysis that does not store or reuse the Content, or, if you hold a licence to our Software, to support your own use of it as permitted by the EULA, and then only in accordance with our robots.txt and any rate limits;
(f) circumvent any access control, login, rate limit, robots.txt instruction or other technical measure applied to the Website;
(g) access any area of the Website restricted to licensees except under the EULA;
(h) remove, alter or obscure any copyright, trade mark or other notice on the Content; or
(i) use screenshots or videos of our Software on the Website to recreate the appearance of its user interface, screen layouts or report designs in a Competing Product, whether directly or by means of an AI System.
5.2 You must not use our trade marks, or any confusingly similar name, logo, icon or get-up, in connection with a Competing Product (including in product, domain, app, extension, code repository, package or social media account names, and in descriptions of a project), or in a way that suggests a connection with or endorsement by us that does not exist. You must not present any product as an imitation, replica, clone or copy of our Software. This does not prevent honest, accurate references to our Software, including comparisons that comply with applicable law.
6. Reservation of text and data mining rights
6.1 We expressly reserve all rights to carry out, and to authorise others to carry out, text and data mining of the Content for the purpose of developing, training or improving a Competing Product, or of replicating or reconstructing all or part of our Software or the Documentation. Text and data mining for other purposes, including AI training permitted by clause 4(f), is not reserved. This reservation is made for the purposes of Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790 and any equivalent or future law in any jurisdiction, and applies to all copies of the Content, wherever they are hosted or obtained.
6.2 To ask about a licence for any use of the Content not permitted by these terms, contact [email protected].
7. AI Systems and agents
7.1 If you operate an AI System or other Automated Means that accesses the Website, you must ensure it complies with these terms and with our robots.txt.
7.2 If an AI System or other Automated Means accesses the Website on your behalf, you are responsible for its acts as if they were your own.
8. Your statutory rights
8.1 Nothing in these terms excludes or restricts any use of the Content that the law permits regardless of contract, including fair dealing for criticism, review, quotation or news reporting, and text and data mining for non-commercial research under section 29A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 or any equivalent law, each of which is subject to its own statutory conditions. Any provision of these terms is to be read as not applying to the extent it would do so.
9. Enforcement
9.1 If we reasonably believe you have breached these terms, we may block or limit your access to the Website, withdraw any permission in clause 4, and take any other action available to us.
9.2 You acknowledge that a breach of clause 5 or 7 may cause us harm for which damages would not be an adequate remedy, and that we will be entitled to seek injunctive or other equitable relief.
9.3 For any use of the Content in breach of clause 5.1(a), (c), (d) or (i), we may claim damages measured by reference to the fee we would reasonably have charged for a licence of that use.
10. Website disclaimer
10.1 We do not guarantee that the Website or Content is accurate, complete, up to date or free from errors or viruses.
10.2 Nothing in these terms limits or excludes our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other liability that cannot be limited or excluded by law. If you are a consumer, your statutory rights are not affected.
10.3 Subject to 10.2: (a) if you are a business, we will not be liable for any loss arising from your use of, or inability to use, the Website or Content; and (b) if you are a consumer, we are liable only for loss that is a foreseeable result of our breach of these terms or failure to use reasonable care and skill, and not for any business loss.
10.4 We may change, suspend or withdraw all or any part of the Website at any time, without notice.
10.5 The Website contains links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for their content, and a link does not mean that we endorse them.
11. General
11.1 We may change these terms by updating this page. The version in force when you access the Website applies, and the version in force at the time of any breach governs that breach.
11.2 If any provision of these terms, or part of one, is found unenforceable, it is deleted to the extent necessary and the rest of these terms continues in effect. If a provision would be enforceable with part of it deleted, only that part is deleted.
11.3 These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales. The courts of England and Wales have exclusive jurisdiction, except that if you are a consumer you may also bring proceedings in the courts of the part of the UK, or the country, where you live. If you are a consumer, this clause does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory laws of the country where you live.
11.4 Nothing in clause 11.3 prevents us from bringing proceedings in any other jurisdiction to protect our intellectual property rights or enforce clause 5 or 7.
11.5 No one other than us and you has any right to enforce these terms.
11.6 If we delay or do not enforce any of these terms, including against automated access or copying we have previously tolerated, we do not waive our rights and may still enforce them later.
Last Amended 11 November 2026
