Fastscraping is a managed data-engineering service. Clients hire us to collect, structure, and maintain information that is already published openly on the web. This page sets out the limits we work within — for clients deciding whether we're a fit, and for site owners who want to know what we do.
Public pages, nothing more.
We collect information that is publicly accessible — the same pages any visitor can open in a browser without an account. Typical examples:
- Public product listings, catalogue pages, specifications, and public pricing.
- Public company and business directory information.
- Public job postings.
- Publicly published reviews and ratings.
- Open datasets, government and regulatory publications, and public filings.
We structure that information, keep it current, and deliver it to the client in the format their systems need. That is the whole of the service.
The hard limits.
These aren't negotiable, and no fee changes them. We do not:
- Sign in to anything. We don't create accounts, use client credentials, or collect data that requires being logged in.
- Go behind paywalls. Subscription-only or pay-to-read content is out of scope.
- Touch private or internal systems. No private APIs, no internal endpoints, no non-public infrastructure.
- Collect credentials or payment data. No passwords, no card numbers, no bank details — ever.
- Collect special-category personal data. No health, biometric, genetic, financial-account, precise location, religious, political, or sexual-orientation data about individuals.
- Collect data about children. We don't work with sources directed at under-16s.
We say no.
Not every request is a project we'll take. We turn down work where the purpose or the source makes it inappropriate, including:
- Surveillance, stalking, harassment, or building profiles of private individuals.
- Assembling contact lists for unsolicited bulk messaging.
- Circumventing access controls, authentication, or digital rights management.
- Wholesale copying of a copyrighted work or database for republication.
- Collection from a source that has told us, in writing, not to.
- Any use intended to defraud, discriminate unlawfully, or break competition law.
If a project drifts into this territory after it starts, we stop, tell the client why, and refund anything prepaid for the undelivered portion — see our Refund policy.
Good citizens of the web.
A source site should never notice us as a burden. In practice that means:
- Measured request rates. We pace collection so it stays a rounding error against a site's ordinary traffic, and never runs at a volume that could degrade service for its real users.
- Identifiable traffic. We can be reached. Site operators who want to talk to us have a name and an address to write to, at the bottom of this page.
- Cache, don't hammer. We store what we collect and re-fetch on a schedule that matches how often the source actually changes.
- Stop when asked. A request from a site owner to stop is honoured — see section 07.
We are not a data broker.
We do not build, sell, licence, or maintain databases of personal information, and we don't offer contact-enrichment or people-search products of any kind.
Most of what we collect is about companies, products, and prices, not people. Where public business information incidentally includes a person — an author byline, a publicly listed business contact — we treat it as personal data under GDPR and CCPA, minimise it, and apply the retention limits set out in our Privacy policy.
For data collected on a client's instruction, the client is the data controller and Fastscraping acts as processor. We sign data processing agreements, and we support Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers out of the EU.
What we ask of you.
Compliance runs in both directions. When you engage us, you confirm that:
- You have a lawful basis and a legitimate business purpose for the data you're asking for.
- You'll use it in line with our Terms of service and applicable law, including data-protection law.
- You won't use it for any of the purposes listed in section 03.
- You'll handle any personal data in the delivery as a controller, including honouring data-subject requests.
If we learn that delivered data is being used outside these limits, we may suspend or terminate the engagement.
A real address, and a real answer.
If you operate a website and would prefer we didn't collect from it, email us. We don't argue the point — we'll confirm the domain, add it to our exclusion list, and stop. We aim to confirm within five business days.
If you're an individual and believe we hold information about you, you can ask us what we hold and ask us to delete it, wherever you live. Where we hold it on a client's behalf we'll pass the request to that client and support them in answering it. See the rights section of our Privacy policy.
If you hold rights in content you believe has been copied improperly, write to us with the detail and we'll investigate and respond.
Talk to a person.
Compliance questions, takedown requests, and data-subject requests all go to the same place, and a human reads them:
- khalid@fastscraping.com — replies within one business day
- Fast Scraping LLC · 30 N Gould St, Ste R · Sheridan, WY 82801 · United States
Send this page to your counsel — we'll answer their questions.
We're used to procurement and legal review. Send us the questionnaire, the DPA, or the security review and we'll work through it with you.