Terms of service

1. What this is, and who operates it

Outrings is a website measurement service, operated by BTN GROUP ("we", "us"). References to Outrings in these terms mean the service; references to us mean the operator.

Outrings It makes ordinary HTTP requests to a public address, reads what comes back, applies published rules and returns the result — over a web interface, a REST API and a Model Context Protocol server. Using any of them means you accept these terms.

The service is provided free of charge. There is no account, no subscription and no paid tier, so nothing here creates a payment obligation in either direction.

2. Acceptable use

You may use Outrings to measure sites you own, sites you are authorised to assess, and sites that are publicly reachable — the same access any browser or search engine crawler has. What you may not do:

• Use it against systems you have no right to inspect, or to circumvent an access control.
• Automate it at a rate that burdens this service or the sites being measured.
• Attempt to bypass the rate limits, or distribute requests to evade them.
• Use it to assemble information about a private individual.
• Present its output as something it is not — see section 5.
• Resell access to the API as though it were your own service.

Measuring a competitor's public website is fine and expected. Probing it for vulnerabilities is a different activity that this service does not perform and does not authorise.

3. Rate limits and availability

Forty audits per hour and two hundred per day per caller. Each audit makes dozens of requests to the site being measured, so the limit protects third parties as much as this server. Exceeding it returns 429 with a Retry-After header.

The service runs on modest infrastructure and is offered as-is. There is no uptime commitment, no service level agreement, and no guarantee that any endpoint, check or response field will continue to exist. Breaking changes to the API will be reflected in the version fields published on every response, but they may happen.

4. Your content

You keep whatever rights you have in the URLs you submit and the messages you send. Submitting a URL grants permission to fetch and analyse it, and to include its hostname and scores in the aggregate public statistics — never the path, the query string or the page content. If you would rather a hostname were not in that data, ask and it will be removed.

Audit output describes a third party's website. Outrings claims no ownership of it, and you are free to publish, quote and act on results you obtain.

5. What a measurement is, and is not

This section is the one that matters, so it is stated plainly rather than buried.

• A result is an observation, not a guarantee. It describes what was observable at one moment from one vantage point.
• A high score is not a statement that a site is secure. Application logic, dependency vulnerabilities and internal practices are invisible to any external check, and a site with perfect headers can be trivially exploitable.
• Coverage is bounded and published. Every response carries a notCovered array. Do not claim coverage beyond it.
• Undetermined is not a pass. Checks that reached no verdict are returned separately with a reason, and must not be reported as successes.
• Nothing here is legal, security or compliance advice. Privacy and accessibility checks flag observable signals; they do not establish compliance with GDPR, CCPA, WCAG or anything else. Automated accessibility testing in particular can find violations but can never prove conformance.

Decisions with real consequences — legal, financial or security — should rest on professional judgement, with a measurement as one input among several.

6. Liability

The service is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Outrings is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss, nor for lost profits, revenue, data or goodwill, arising from use of or inability to use the service — including reliance on a result that was wrong.

Nothing in these terms limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else that cannot lawfully be excluded. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain exclusions, in which case the narrowest permitted exclusion applies.

7. Suspension

Access may be limited or blocked without notice where use breaches section 2, threatens the availability of the service, or endangers the third-party sites being measured. There is no account to terminate; this is a technical block rather than a contractual remedy.

8. Changes

These terms may change. The date at the top reflects the last revision, and material changes will be noted there. Continuing to use the service after a change means accepting the revised terms.

9. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Romania, and the courts of Romania have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute. If you are a consumer, this does not deprive you of the protection of mandatory provisions of the law of your country of residence.

The operator of record is BTN GROUP. Correspondence about these terms should go through the contact form, which reaches the operator directly.

10. Contact

Questions about these terms, or anything else: the contact form.

See also: Privacy & security · Cookie policy · How every check works