Terms of Service

1.This agreement

These Terms are a contract between you and ReadyLayer ( “ReadyLayer”, “we”, “us”). They apply when you create an account, use our public scanner, install our script tag, or otherwise use the service.

By doing any of those things you accept these Terms. If you are accepting on behalf of a company or other organisation, you confirm you have authority to bind it, and “you” means that organisation.

Our Privacy Policy and, where we process personal data on your behalf, our Data Processing Addendum are part of this agreement. If you have signed a separate written order form or agreement with us, that document controls wherever it conflicts with these Terms.

2.What the service does

ReadyLayer does four things:

• Audits — fetches publicly accessible pages on sites you nominate, analyses them against our rule set, and reports an Agent Readiness Score with the issues behind it.
• Generation — produces an “Agent Layer”: a machine-readable set of files derived from your pages, including Markdown copies, structured data and an index.
• Hosting and delivery — hosts those files and, via our script tag, advertises them to agents that visit your site.
• Monitoring — re-checks your sites on a schedule and alerts you to changes.

We improve and change the service over time. We will not make a change that materially reduces the core functionality of a paid plan during a term you have already paid for without giving you notice and, if you are unhappy, a pro-rated refund of the unused portion.

3.Your account and your team

You need an account to use most of the service. Keep your sign-in details secure and tell us promptly at security@readylayer.io if you believe your account has been compromised.

Accounts live inside a workspace. Workspace members hold one of three roles — owner, admin or member — and owners and admins can invite others, change billing, and delete sites and their stored data.

• You are responsible for everything done under your account and by everyone you invite into your workspace.
• Inviting someone gives them access to your workspace’s sites, audits and reports. Invite accordingly.
• You must be at least 16 years old and legally able to enter into this agreement.
• Provide accurate information, and keep your billing details current.

4.Sites you may point us at

Every time you submit a URL or add a site, you represent and warrant that:

• You own or control that domain, or you have permission from whoever does to have it fetched, analysed and stored by us.
• Having us crawl it does not breach any agreement you are party to, any applicable law, or that site’s own terms.
• You have whatever rights and lawful basis are required for us to process any personal data that appears within that site’s content.

Our crawler identifies itself in every request, obeys robots.txt, and fetches only pages a logged-out visitor could reach — but none of that substitutes for your authorisation. If a site owner complains, or we reasonably believe you lack authorisation, we may remove the site and its stored data from your account and suspend the audit without notice.

The one deliberate exception is our public single-page scanner, which anyone may point at any public URL to see a single-page score. It is rate limited, stores no page content, and exists to demonstrate the product. It is not a licence to audit sites in bulk that you have no relationship with, and the acceptable use rules still apply to it.

5.Acceptable use

Use ReadyLayer for its intended purpose: understanding and improving how agents read sites you are responsible for. You must not:

• Submit domains you do not own or have permission to audit, or use the service to profile, scrape or build a dataset about sites you have no relationship with.
• Attempt to make our crawler reach private networks, internal hostnames, loopback addresses or cloud metadata endpoints, or otherwise use us as a proxy to reach something you could not reach directly.
• Circumvent or attempt to circumvent rate limits, quotas, plan capacity, anti-abuse challenges, or any technical restriction in the service — including by creating multiple accounts to obtain repeated free scans.
• Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of our systems without our written permission, or breach or circumvent any authentication or security measure. Good-faith vulnerability reports are welcome and are covered in our Privacy Policy.
• Interfere with the service, overload our infrastructure, or disrupt another customer’s use of it.
• Reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract the source of the service, or copy our rule set, scoring methodology, or templates to build a competing product.
• Resell, sublicense, or provide the service to third parties as a service bureau, unless we have agreed to that in writing.
• Use the service to publish or distribute material that is unlawful, infringing, deceptive, or that you have no right to publish.
• Misrepresent the Agent Layer as content it is not — for example, publishing generated files that describe products, prices, claims or credentials that are not genuinely yours.

If you breach this section we may suspend or terminate your access. For anything that puts our infrastructure, another customer, or a third party at risk, we may act immediately and tell you afterwards. Otherwise we will give you notice and a reasonable chance to fix it.

6.The script tag

We grant you a non-exclusive, revocable licence to embed our script tag on sites within your account for as long as your subscription is active. You may not modify it, rehost it, or use it on domains that are not in your account.

The script runs on your site, in your visitors’ browsers. You are responsible for your own website, including any notices or consents your jurisdiction requires. What the script sends and stores is documented precisely in the Privacy Policy so you can assess it.

If your subscription ends, the licence ends: remove the tag. We may stop serving configuration to it at that point, and the tag will stop advertising your Agent Layer.

7.Your content stays yours

You own your content. That covers your website, the pages we fetch, everything we extract from them, and the Agent Layer files we generate from them. We claim no ownership over any of it.

You grant us a limited, non-exclusive licence to host, copy, process, transform and display that content for one purpose only: providing the service to you. The licence lasts as long as you keep the content in the service and ends when you delete the site or close your account.

A published Agent Layer is public by design: it is served at predictable addresses precisely so that agents can find it. Do not put anything in a page you publish through ReadyLayer that you would not publish on the open web.

If you send us feedback or suggestions, we may use them freely to improve the product, with no obligation to you. This does not give us any rights in your content.

8.Scores and results: what we can and cannot promise

We can promise that we will analyse your pages, generate the files, and host them where agents look. We cannot promise what third-party AI systems and search engines will then do, because we do not control them.

• We do not guarantee that any AI agent, assistant, or search engine will read, use, cite, recommend, or rank your site, or that installing ReadyLayer will increase your traffic, visibility, or revenue.
• The Agent Readiness Score is our own diagnostic measure, based on our rule set. It is a considered opinion about machine readability, not an industry standard, not a certification, and not a prediction of commercial outcomes. We refine the rules over time, so a score can move without your site changing.
• Audit findings, including detected issues and broken links, are generated automatically and may contain errors or miss problems. Review them before acting.
• Generated content is derived mechanically from your pages. You are responsible for reviewing what you publish, and for its accuracy.
• Nothing in the service is legal, regulatory, accessibility, or professional advice. An accessibility signal in an audit is not an assessment of your compliance with any accessibility law.

9.Plans, fees and renewals

Current plans, add-ons and prices are on our pricing page. The fees that apply to you are the ones shown at the time you purchase.

• Subscriptions renew automatically at the end of each billing period — monthly or yearly, whichever you chose — until you cancel. We charge the payment method on file through Stripe.
• Add-ons are purchased in fixed quantities and billed on the same cycle as your subscription. Adding or removing them mid-term is prorated by Stripe.
• Taxes are your responsibility and may be added to the amounts shown, depending on where you are.
• Price changes never apply to a term you have already paid for. We will give you at least 30 days’ notice before a change takes effect at your next renewal, and you can cancel before then.
• Failed payments. If we cannot collect payment we may suspend access until it is resolved. We will try to reach you first.
• Custom plans are agreed separately. Where you have a written order form, its commercial terms — price, capacity, duration — control over anything in this section.

10.Free scans

We offer two things at no cost, on different terms to a paid plan:

• The public single-page scanner, which anyone can use without an account. It is rate limited per IP address and may present an anti-abuse challenge.
• A free full-site scan per account, covering up to 25 pages. It is consumed when the scan is claimed and becomes available again 90 days later, for as long as the account remains on the free plan. Accounts whose paid subscription has ended do not receive the recurring scan.

Free features are provided as-is, with no availability commitment, and we may change, limit or withdraw them at any time. If a free scan fails for a technical reason and you tell us, we will restore it.

11.Capacity and limits

Paid plans include a defined capacity — how many sites you can publish, how many pages each published site can hold, how deep an audit crawls, and how many audits and scans you can run each month. Your current allowances are shown in your dashboard.

• Page packs are assigned to a specific site, not pooled across your account. Each block adds 30 pages of publishing capacity to whichever site you assign it to.
• Reassigning blocks between sites is limited to once per calendar month per site, to keep capacity from being shuffled around faster than we can bill for it.
• An audit crawls deeper than your plan publishes. That is intentional: the audit’s job is to show you the pages you are not yet optimising. Pages beyond your publishing capacity are reported but not published.
• Monthly quotas reset each billing period and do not roll over.

We may apply reasonable technical limits to protect the service. If your usage is materially disproportionate — enough to degrade the service for others — we will contact you to agree a suitable plan before taking any action.

12.Cancellation and refunds

You can cancel at any time from the billing settings in your dashboard, which opens the Stripe customer portal. No phone call, no retention conversation.

• Cancelling stops the next renewal. Your plan stays active until the end of the period you have already paid for.
• We do not give refunds for partial periods, except where the law requires it or where we have said otherwise in these Terms.
• If we terminate your account for convenience, or materially reduce a paid plan mid-term, we will refund the unused portion of what you paid.
• If we terminate your account because you breached these Terms, no refund is due.

Cancelling a subscription does not delete your data. To have your account and its contents removed, see termination and the Privacy Policy.

13.Our intellectual property

The service itself — the software, the rule set and scoring methodology, the templates, the documentation, the ReadyLayer name and logo — belongs to us and our licensors. These Terms grant you a right to use the service, not any ownership in it. You may not use our name or branding without permission, except to state factually that you use ReadyLayer.

14.Confidentiality

Each of us may learn non-public information about the other. We will each protect it with at least reasonable care, use it only for this agreement, and not disclose it except to people who need it and are bound to keep it confidential. This does not apply to information that is public through no fault of the receiver, was already known, is independently developed, or must be disclosed by law — in which case the disclosing party gets advance notice where that is lawful.

15.Term, suspension and termination

This agreement runs for as long as you use the service or hold an account.

• You may terminate at any time by cancelling your subscription and closing your account.
• We may terminate or suspend if you materially breach these Terms and do not fix it within 14 days of notice; immediately where the breach is of acceptable use or authorised domains, or where the law requires it; or for convenience on 30 days’ notice with a pro-rated refund.
• On termination, your access ends and your Agent Layer stops being served. Remove the script tag from your sites.
• Your data. Export anything you want to keep before you close your account. Ask us at privacy@readylayer.io and we will delete your account and its contents, other than records we are required to keep — see the retention section.
• What survives: ownership, confidentiality, fees already due, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnities, and governing law.

16.Disclaimers

We work hard to keep ReadyLayer accurate and available, but we have to be clear about what we are not promising.

The service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied or statutory, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement, to the fullest extent the law allows.

In particular, we do not warrant that:

• the service will be uninterrupted, timely, or error-free;
• audit results, scores or generated content will be accurate, complete, or suitable for your purposes;
• any AI system, agent or search engine will read, use, cite or rank your site, or that your traffic or revenue will improve — see scores and results;
• defects will be corrected, or that the service is free of harmful components.

Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

17.Limitation of liability

Neither party is liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, or business interruption, even if told such damages were possible.

Each party’s total liability under this agreement is capped at the greater of the amounts you paid us in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim, or US$100.

These limits do not apply to:

• your obligation to pay fees you owe;
• either party’s indemnification obligations;
• fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, wilful misconduct, or gross negligence;
• death or personal injury caused by negligence, or any other liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

Nothing in these Terms limits any consumer rights you have that cannot be waived under the law of your country of residence.

18.Indemnification

You will defend and indemnify us against third-party claims, and the resulting damages, losses and reasonable legal costs, arising from your content, your websites, your use of the service in breach of these Terms, or your submission of a domain you were not authorised to submit. We will tell you promptly about any such claim, let you control the defence of it, and cooperate reasonably at your expense. You may not settle a claim in a way that imposes an obligation or admission on us without our consent.

19.Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms as the product and the law change. For material changes we will give at least 30 days’ notice by email or in the product before they take effect, and the date at the top of this page will change. Continuing to use the service after that means you accept the new Terms. If you do not, cancel before they take effect and we will refund the unused portion of your current term.

20.Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Nebraska, without regard to its conflict of law rules, and excluding the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.

Talk to us first. If something goes wrong, email legal@readylayer.io with a description of the problem and what you want. We will do the same for you. Most disputes end here. Both of us agree to try to resolve it informally for 60 days before starting proceedings.

If that fails, both of us submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Douglas County, Nebraska, and each of us consents to venue there. If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory law of your country of residence, or of the right to bring proceedings in your local courts where that right cannot be waived.

21.General

• Entire agreement. These Terms, the Privacy Policy, the DPA and any order form are the whole agreement between us on this subject, and replace anything said beforehand.
• Severability. If a provision is unenforceable, it is limited to the minimum extent necessary and the rest stays in force.
• No waiver. Not enforcing something once does not waive it.
• Assignment. You may not assign this agreement without our consent. We may assign it in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of assets, on notice to you.
• Force majeure. Neither party is liable for delays caused by events genuinely outside its reasonable control.
• Notices. We will send notices to the email address on your account — keep it current. Send formal notices to us at legal@readylayer.io.
• No third-party beneficiaries. This agreement is between you and us.
• Relationship. We are independent contractors. Nothing here creates a partnership, agency or employment relationship.
• Trade controls. You confirm you are not subject to sanctions that would prohibit us from providing the service to you.

22.Contact

Questions about these Terms go to legal@readylayer.io. For sales and plan questions, use sales@readylayer.io. For anything about personal data, use privacy@readylayer.io. ReadyLayer is based in Omaha, Nebraska; our postal address is available on request for formal notices.