Use it sensibly, and most of this never matters.

“We” and “us” mean Smart Capture Studio, the operator of smartcapturestudio.com and the scanner behind it. “You” means whoever is using it — with or without an account, from a browser or from an API key.

Using the scanner means accepting these terms. If you are using it for an employer or a client, you are confirming you may accept them on that organisation’s behalf.

These terms cover the scanner, this website, the API and any account. They sit alongside the privacy policy, which covers what is stored and for how long.

You confirm, every time you run a scan, that you own the site or have the operator’s permission to scan it. We have no way to verify that and we do not try to. It is the one thing we genuinely rely on you for.

What the scanner does is deliberately modest: it requests pages the way a browser would, identifies itself in its user agent, follows only same-origin links, stays inside a fixed page and time budget, and does not attempt to log in, submit forms, or reach anything an ordinary visitor could not. That is a design choice, not a legal defence — in some places, scanning somebody else’s systems without permission is unlawful regardless of how politely it is done, and that is your responsibility rather than ours.

The same goes, more so, for an uptime monitor: it requests its address every few minutes for as long as it exists, so only point one at a site or an API you run or are allowed to watch.

The site audit on a paid plan goes further than the scanner, so the permission you need is wider: it crawls a whole site, up to your plan’s number of pages, can open pages in a browser, can ignore robots.txt if you tell it to, and can sign in with a login you give it. Only audit a site you run or are allowed to test in that way; use a login made for the purpose, with read-only access; and, if the site has a firewall or a host that limits crawling, tell them first. The same applies to pages you watch for changes and to pages you measure for speed.

Real-user measurement asks you to put our snippet on your site. If you do, you are the one telling your visitors about it: it sets no cookie and collects no personal data (see the privacy notice), but your own privacy notice should say that page timings are measured.

AI crawler analytics asks you to send us your own site’s requests (through a Worker, a log drain or an uploaded access log). Those requests include your visitors’ IP addresses and browser details. Send them only for sites you run and only where you are allowed to; we process them on your behalf and only to count AI bots and visits from AI assistants, and we keep no IP address, browser string or query string (see the privacy notice). Your own privacy notice should say that request logs are shared with a service provider for analytics.

Connecting Google Search Console or Analytics gives us read-only access to the properties you choose. Connect only properties you are allowed to share with us; disconnecting withdraws the access and deletes what we copied.

If you operate a site and want it excluded from the scanner, write to [email protected] and we will block it.

The scanner is provided as it is, with no warranty of any kind, express or implied, including any implied warranty of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. A score is the output of a fixed set of automated checks running once, against the entered page and up to a handful more, in about a minute. It is a useful signal and it is not an audit, a certification, or a substitute for someone who knows your system.

A clean report does not mean a site is secure, fast, accessible or correct. It means these particular checks found nothing. Do not make a decision that matters on the strength of a number from an automated tool — ours included.

We do not promise availability, and we publish no service level. The scan API runs on a small instance that is allowed to sleep when idle, so the first scan after a quiet period is slow on purpose. A report is deleted from the server as soon as it reaches you, so treat a report link as temporary and keep your own copy of anything you need.

Uptime monitoring is a measurement, not a guarantee. We check on a schedule and confirm a failure from more than one place before alerting, so a single check can be missed, a short outage can fall between checks, and an alert can arrive late or, if email or your channel fails, not at all. The uptime figures we report are what our checkers saw, not a service level we give you or one you can hold your own provider to. Do not make it the only thing watching something that must not go down.

AI visibility shows what the assistants said, not what they will say. Your questions are sent to the AI assistants you chose (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Perplexity), and each answer is recorded as it came back. Answers change from one run to the next and can be wrong; we report whether you were named and cited in them, and do not vouch for their content.

Some of what a report contains comes from third parties — Google’s PageSpeed Insights and Chrome UX Report, and public DNS. When one of them is slow, wrong or unavailable, those checks are skipped rather than failed, and the rest of the report still stands. We are not responsible for their output.

The scanner is used from everywhere, and nothing on this page takes away a right your local law gives you and does not allow to be signed away. If you are a consumer in the UK, the EU, Australia, India or anywhere with mandatory consumer protections, those apply on top of these terms and win wherever the two disagree. The free scanner is the only thing this page offers you, and it offers it for nothing.

Governing law is not yet stated on this page. Until it is, nothing here is intended to affect which law or which courts would otherwise apply to a dispute between us.

If a part of these terms turns out to be unenforceable, the rest carries on. Not enforcing something once does not waive it. You may not transfer your rights under these terms; we may transfer ours if the product changes hands, and would say so first. Neither of us is responsible for failures caused by something genuinely outside our control.

These terms can change. The date at the top of this page moves when they do, and a material change — anything affecting price, your rights, or what you are allowed to do — gets at least 30 days’ notice by email to anyone with an account. Continuing to use the scanner after a change means you accept it.

Questions go to [email protected], and we answer them ourselves.