These terms apply to Bot Appétit at botappetit.ai, operated by Milk Moon Studio (Pty) Ltd (“we”, “us”). By using it, you agree to them. If you don’t, please don’t use it.
What Bot Appétit is
Bot Appétit is a free tool. You give it a web address; it fetches that page the way a search engine or AI crawler would, runs a set of automated checks, and shows you a score and a list of findings. It is an automated opinion, not an audit. A page scan reads one page; a site scan reads a sample of a site, not every page.
What you may scan
Only scan a site you own, or one you have permission to test.
This matters more than it might look. When you submit a URL, you are instructing our servers to send requests to someone else’s server. You are responsible for having the right to do that.
Specifically, you agree not to use Bot Appétit:
- against a site you do not own and have no permission to test;
- to send repeated or automated requests designed to burden either our service or the site being scanned;
- to try to reach private, internal, or non-public systems;
- to work around the limits, checks, or protections we put in place — including the anti-abuse checks and rate limits;
- for anything unlawful.
Automating page scans is allowed through the front doors we publish: our MCP server and public API, within their rate limits and under these same terms. Anything else that sends automated requests to the scanner, or works around those limits, is covered by the list above.
We rate-limit and bot-check the service to keep it available for everyone. Trying to defeat those measures is a breach of these terms.
The results come with no warranty
We built the checks carefully and test them continuously against real sites. Even so:
- the findings are provided “as is”, with no warranty of accuracy, completeness or fitness for any purpose;
- a passing score is not a guarantee of any ranking, traffic, visibility or AI citation, and we do not promise any commercial outcome;
- a failing or warning result may be a false positive, and a passing result may miss something;
- a scan checks one page, and a site scan checks a sample, not every page of your site;
- some findings depend on third parties (for example Google’s PageSpeed Insights and Safe Browsing) and inherit their availability and their judgement;
- the decisions you make from these findings are yours. Don’t make an irreversible change to a live site on the strength of an automated score without understanding the change.
What we send to third parties
To produce the results, the URL you submit is sent to third-party services (currently Google PageSpeed Insights and Google Safe Browsing). Don’t submit a URL that is itself confidential — a preview link, a reset link, or an address with a token in it. See our Privacy Policy.
What we keep
We keep a record of scans — including the web address scanned and the results we produce — to understand how the tool is used and to improve it. We do this in a way that does not store your IP address. Exactly what we keep, and why, is set out in our Privacy Policy.
For a small sample of scans we also keep a copy of the page itself, purely so we can re-run our own checks against a page we have already seen and tell the difference between our scanner changing and a website changing. These copies are never published or shared, and we will delete the copies we hold for your site on request — see Copies of scanned pages.
Availability
The tool is free, and we make no promise that it will be available, or that it will keep existing. We may change it, limit it, or withdraw it at any time without notice. We may refuse or block use that we reasonably believe breaks these terms.
Accounts
You can run a single-page scan without an account. A multi-page site scan needs one, because it runs for several minutes and we need somewhere to send the result. Accounts are free. Once you have run a site scan, we scan that site again every 30 days from your account and email you the result. You can switch that off on Your sites, and removing the site or deleting the account stops it.
Keep your sign-in details to yourself — you are responsible for what happens under your account. Give us an email address you actually control, do not create an account on someone else’s behalf without their say-so, and do not share one account between people as a way around any limit.
Do not use an account to do at scale what these terms already forbid one page at a time. That means: no scanning sites you have no business scanning, no scripting site scans through your account other than through our MCP server or API, which you approve in your browser and which have their own rate limits, no working around usage limits, and nothing that degrades the service for anyone else. The rules in “What you may scan” apply to every page a site scan touches, exactly as they do to a single scan.
We may suspend or close an account that breaks these terms, or that is being used in a way that threatens the service — and we may do it without notice where the problem is ongoing. You can close your account at any time by emailing hello@botappetit.ai.
Closing an account does not delete scan results. Results were never stored against you: they belong to the address that was scanned, and its history stays public. What goes is your email address, your sign-in details and your list of sites. The Privacy Policy sets this out in full.
The Chrome extension
The Bot Appétit Chrome extension is part of Bot Appétit, so these terms apply to it, and it needs an account. Its Scan this page and Scan site buttons start the same scans as the website, so the same rules about what you may scan apply, and the results are the same results with the same no-warranty terms. We may change or withdraw the extension at any time. Google’s own terms apply to the Chrome Web Store and to Chrome. If your browser warns you or will not install it, How do I install the Chrome extension? explains why and what to do.
Our stuff and your stuff
The tool, its wording, its checks and its design are ours. The site you scan is yours (or its owner’s) — we claim nothing over it. You may share your results freely.
Liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for any indirect or consequential loss, or for lost profit, revenue, data, or goodwill, arising from your use of Bot Appétit or from anything you did or didn’t do because of its findings.
Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited — including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud. Nothing here affects the rights you have under the Consumer Protection Act, 2008 where it applies to you.
You indemnify us
If you scan a site you had no right to scan, and that causes a claim against us, you agree to cover us for it — including reasonable legal costs.
Changes
We may update these terms. The date at the top changes when we do. Continuing to use the tool after a change means you accept it.
Law and jurisdiction
These terms are governed by the law of the Republic of South Africa, and the South African courts have jurisdiction.
Contact
Milk Moon Studio (Pty) Ltd — hello@botappetit.ai