Terms of Engagement

Last updated: 18 May 2026

§ 01 · Acceptance

By engaging with BotConduct, you accept these Terms. Engagement includes requesting a quote, addressing correspondence to the Desk, or entering into a signed engagement letter.

§ 02 · Nature of the service

BotConduct operates an independent behavioral observatory. The Observatory observes automated activity directed at public-facing web properties and produces interpretive evidence. BotConduct does not provide blocking, gating, or runtime defense. Findings are diagnostic.

§ 03 · Forms of engagement

Engagement-form services — Site Behavioral Risk Assessment, Continuous Behavioral Monitoring, Enterprise & counsel — are quoted per-engagement following correspondence with the Desk. Scope, payment, jurisdiction, and data-handling terms are documented in an engagement letter signed by both parties prior to commencement.

§ 04 · Receiver-side instrumentation

Engagement clients deploy receiver-side instrumentation on their own properties. The instrumentation captures signals of automated activity directed at the property. The instrumentation does not capture personal data of the property’s end-users.

§ 05 · Observatory archive

Behavioral observations collected through the receiver-side instrumentation are property of BotConduct and form the Observatory archive. The Observatory’s interpretive value depends on cross-property accumulation.

§ 06 · Independence

BotConduct does not sell, license, or operate blocking, gating, or runtime defense tools. The Observatory has no commercial interest in classification outcomes. This independence is structural.

§ 07 · Evidence and findings

Findings produced by the Observatory are interpretive. They are not regulatory determinations. Where presented as evidence to a regulator, auditor, court, or counterparty, findings are intended to be one input among others.

§ 08 · Intellectual property

Research notes, briefings, bulletins, and evidence chains produced by the Observatory remain the property of BotConduct. Engagement clients receive a non-exclusive licence to use findings as documented in the engagement letter.

§ 09 · Liability

The Observatory provides findings on an as-is basis. Liability for any damage arising from the use of findings is limited to the amount paid by the client in the twelve months preceding the claim.

§ 10 · Jurisdiction

These Terms are governed by the laws of Argentina. Disputes are referred first to good-faith correspondence with the Desk and, failing resolution, to the courts of the City of Buenos Aires.

§ 11 · Updates

Material changes to these Terms are communicated by email to engagement clients at least thirty days before they take effect.