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Terms of Service

LAST UPDATED · AUG 14, 2026

By using RateMyWebsite (“the Service”) you agree to these terms. Read them — they define what the Service is and is not.

What the Service is

RateMyWebsite produces an automated, informational report card on a website's search visibility, AI visibility, and security. It is informational only.

No guarantees

We make no guarantee of any ranking, traffic, revenue, or business outcome. Scores reflect the specific automated checks listed in each report at the time of the scan, and nothing more. Search engines and AI assistants change constantly; a good score is not a promise of results.

What we scan

We scan publicly available pages only. We identify our scanner honestly as RateMyWebsiteBot/1.0 (see our bot page) and honor robots.txt for domains you haven't verified ownership of.

You must have a legitimate interest in any domain you scan — your own site, a client's site you work on, or a competitor you have a genuine business reason to research. You may not use the Service to harass, attack, or overload any site.

Caching and domain-level results

A scan result belongs to the domain, not to you. We may cache results and serve domain-level results (score, grade, pillar scores, and non-gated findings) to other users who scan the same domain, and we retain anonymized domain-level records as part of our benchmark dataset. Specific security detail is gated to verified domain owners.

Payments

Paid products (the Fix Plan, re-scans, monitoring, Pro) are billed through Stripe. Subscriptions renew until cancelled from your billing portal. The free scan is one per account, ever.

Acceptable use

  • No scanning of domains you have no legitimate interest in.
  • No attempts to overload, attack, or circumvent our rate limits.
  • No reselling or scraping of the Service.

Liability

The Service is provided “as is,” without warranty. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for any damages arising from your use of the Service or reliance on its reports.

Changes and contact

We may update these terms; material changes will be posted here. Questions? See our Privacy Policy or contact us through the site.