Terms of service

1. The agreement

These terms govern use of the Obcend website and, where no separate signed agreement exists, the provision of audit services. A signed master services agreement takes precedence over these terms wherever the two conflict.

2. Scope of service

Obcend performs scoped crawls of domains you own or are authorised to test, evaluates responses against a versioned ruleset, and produces findings with supporting evidence.

You warrant that you have authority to authorise crawling of every domain you submit. We may refuse or suspend a crawl where authorisation is unclear.

3. Acceptable use

You may not use Obcend to test infrastructure you do not control, to attempt to circumvent access controls, or to generate load intended to degrade a third party's service.

Crawl rate limits and scope ceilings agreed for an engagement are contractual limits, not defaults you may raise unilaterally.

4. Findings and interpretation

Findings describe observable conditions at the time of the run against a named ruleset version. They are statements of observation, not legal, security, or accessibility certification.

Mechanical accessibility checks cover a subset of WCAG 2.2 and do not substitute for manual and assistive-technology testing. A passing score indicates the absence of detected failures, not proven correctness.

5. Warranties and disclaimers

We warrant that services are performed with reasonable skill and care, and that a finding will be reproducible against the same target and ruleset version at the time of reporting.

We do not warrant that audits detect every defect, that remediation will produce any particular commercial outcome, or that the service will be uninterrupted. We make no ranking, traffic, or revenue guarantees of any kind.

6. Intellectual property

You retain all rights in your content and in the artifacts captured from your domains. Obcend retains all rights in the platform, its rulesets, and its report templates.

You may share reports produced for you with clients, auditors, and regulators without further permission.

7. Liability

Neither party excludes liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.

Subject to the above, each party's aggregate liability is limited to the fees paid in the twelve months preceding the claim, and neither party is liable for indirect or consequential loss.

8. Termination

Either party may terminate for material breach that remains uncured 30 days after written notice. On termination we cease crawling, deliver any completed work, and delete captured artifacts on request in line with the published retention schedule.