1. Purpose, scope, and contract documents
These terms govern free audits, accounts, deep analysis, recurring monitoring, web reports, billing, and support. The Privacy Policy, Billing and Refund Policy, Crawler Guide, and order terms shown at checkout also form part of the agreement.
If contract documents conflict, mandatory law, the Paddle checkout summary or order confirmation for the transaction, the Billing and Refund Policy, and these Terms apply in that order. Paddle Buyer Terms govern the payment transaction, while these Terms govern use of SearchProof AI. A later external-policy change will not be applied retroactively to an existing transaction to the user’s detriment. The Privacy Policy is a notice about data processing, and separate consent is obtained where required.
2. Key definitions
- Free audit: a limited review of a sample of public pages without sign-in.
- Deep analysis: measurement of public pages, performance metrics, and connected AI channels using the market, language, and queries selected by the user.
- Subscription: recurring access that renews monthly or annually until canceled.
- One-time purchase: one deep analysis within the scope shown at checkout, without a subscription.
- Analysis results: scores, findings, evidence URLs, AI observations, suggestions, and exported files.
3. Eligibility, accounts, and security
Users must have legal capacity to contract and provide accurate information. Accounts may not be shared or transferred, and users are responsible for safeguarding authentication credentials. Suspected compromise must be reported promptly after changing the password.
- Do not use another person’s email, domain, organization, or payment method without authority.
- Abnormal login, bulk automation, or security threats may trigger rate limits, additional verification, or temporary suspension.
4. Service delivery, measurement scope, and changes
Results depend on the configured domain, page sample, country, language, search engine, queries, measurement time, and connected third-party channels. Outages or policy changes at websites, PageSpeed, AI, email, or payment services may cause failed, unmeasured, or partial results. Features may change for security, compliance, quality, or integration reasons; materially adverse changes will be announced with reasonable notice.
Free or trial features may change or end for security, quality, or integration reasons, but paid core features already purchased will not be arbitrarily reduced. A materially adverse change to a paid core feature is normally announced by email and in-product at least 30 days in advance. If advance notice is impracticable because of an incident, law, or urgent third-party action, the reason and impact will be explained promptly afterward. If a core feature is removed without a reasonable substitute, the user may cancel before the change and receive any refund required for the unprovided prepaid period.
5. Authority over targets and prohibited conduct
Users must own, administer, or have a legitimate business interest in the analysis target and understand that automated requests will be sent to public pages.
Users represent that they have the authority and lawful basis required for each target, input, and instruction and will comply with the target site’s access terms and applicable law. Technical access to a public page does not itself grant additional permission from the operator or site owner. If a business user’s intentional or negligent breach, unauthorized analysis, or unlawful input causes a third-party claim, that user is responsible, to the extent of its fault, for finally determined direct loss and reasonable defense costs. The operator will give prompt notice and a reasonable opportunity to defend; operator fault and mandatory consumer liabilities are excluded.
- Bypassing authentication, paywalls, access controls, or robots.txt restrictions
- Analysis for unlawful, infringing, surveillance, discriminatory, or deceptive purposes, or submission of personal/confidential data
- Excessive load, vulnerability exploitation, malware, service circumvention, or result manipulation
- Reverse engineering, bulk copying, resale beyond permission, or infringement of third-party rights
6. AI observations and nature of results
SEO, AEO, GEO scores and AI visibility are samples derived from public data, deterministic rules, and particular models, queries, regions, languages, and repeats. Recommendation position is an approximation based on mention order. The service does not guarantee ranking, AI citation, accuracy, revenue, or outcomes and is not a substitute for legal, accounting, or security advice. Verify evidence URLs, original responses, and current site state before important decisions.
AI outputs and analysis results may vary for the same or similar input and may resemble results produced for others. The operator does not warrant that exclusive copyright arises in the output or that it is free of third-party rights; users must review facts and rights before publication, advertising, or material decisions.
7. Paid products, Paddle billing, and renewal
The pricing page may offer monthly and annual subscriptions and a one-time purchase. The final product, currency, tax-inclusive total, interval, and scope are those shown in the Paddle checkout summary. Paddle acts as Merchant of Record/authorized reseller for the transaction and handles payment, tax, receipts, and refund processing; SearchProof AI supplies the analysis service.
- Subscriptions renew for the same interval until canceled; price increases are notified in advance as required by law and Paddle procedures.
- Cancellation, refunds, and service commencement follow the Billing and Refund Policy and Paddle Buyer Terms.
8. Intellectual property, user data, and confidentiality
The operator or lawful licensors own the software, interface, rules, marks, and original content. Users retain rights in their inputs and lawfully controlled target content and permit processing, copying, transformation, and analysis as needed to provide the service. Users may use and export their results internally but must not violate third-party rights, confidentiality duties, or law. Each party will use non-public or inherently confidential information only to perform the agreement.
The license to user data is limited to the scope and period necessary to provide, secure, troubleshoot, and support the service. Without separate opt-in consent, the operator does not use user inputs or private results to train its own general-purpose foundation model or sell a third-party data product. Aggregated or anonymized operational statistics that cannot reasonably identify a person or customer may be used for quality, capacity planning, and security.
9. Suspension, termination, and data return
Users may cancel subscriptions in the customer portal and export data or request account deletion in the account screen. Access may be limited for breach, payment failure, security risk, unlawful use, or legal request. Where practicable, notice and a chance to cure will be provided; urgent security, fraud, or legal action may occur first. After termination, data is deleted or segregated under the Privacy Policy and statutory retention periods.
Restrictions are proportionate in scope and duration to the nature and risk of the issue. A remediable breach normally receives notice and at least seven days to cure, but fraud, unauthorized access, security threats, legal orders, or imminent third-party harm may be addressed immediately. The reason and appeal route will be provided. If the operator ends a paid service for its own business reasons, it normally gives 30 days’ notice and refunds the unprovided prepaid period as required by law and the billing policy.
Users should export needed results before account deletion; deleted data cannot be restored. If a renewable Paddle subscription or incomplete cancellation remains, deletion may be blocked to prevent billing from continuing without an account, and the subscription must first be canceled in the customer portal. Account deletion does not replace Paddle cancellation or a statutory refund request. Unused separately purchased analysis uses may expire with the account after a clear deletion warning, without limiting mandatory refund rights.
10. Liability, disclaimers, governing law, and changes
The service is provided with reasonable technical care but uninterrupted, error-free operation and complete third-party results are not guaranteed. Neither party is liable beyond what law permits for delays caused by external services, communications, site changes, or force majeure outside reasonable control. Liability that cannot lawfully be limited—including willful or gross negligence, personal injury, privacy violations, and mandatory consumer rights—is not excluded. South Korean law governs; disputes should first be discussed, then handled by the legally competent court or lawful dispute process. Material changes will be announced with their date and reason, and consent will be obtained where required.
- To the fullest extent permitted by law, liability for the operator’s breach or ordinary negligence is limited to direct, ordinary, and reasonably foreseeable loss. The operator’s aggregate ordinary-negligence liability to a business user will not exceed the amount that user actually paid to Paddle or the operator for SearchProof AI during the 12 months before the event.
- For business users, lost expected profit, opportunity, or reputation and indirect, special, or consequential loss are excluded where law permits. These exclusions and caps do not apply to intent or gross negligence, fraud, death or personal injury, privacy liability that cannot legally be limited, statutory refunds, complete non-delivery of a paid core obligation, or mandatory consumer rights.
- The operator is not responsible beyond its attributable fault for changes or outages in external AI, PageSpeed, networks, payment methods, or target sites, or for war, disaster, government action, and other events outside reasonable control. It will take reasonable steps to mitigate impact and, if a contracted core result is not delivered, apply the re-run, analysis-use restoration, billing adjustment, or refund standards in the Billing and Refund Policy.
- Ordinary changes are normally announced seven days in advance, and materially adverse changes 30 days in advance, by email and in-product with a comparison, reason, and effective date. Users may cancel without penalty before effect, with statutory refund rules applying to any unprovided prepaid period. Silence or continued use is not treated as consent where express consent is required, including for price increases or data processing.