Anti-Scraping & Anti-Crawling Policy

Legal Notice

CivScore strictly prohibits automated crawling, scraping, or using site content for training machine learning models without explicit written permission. Unauthorized access to our platform is illegal and violates our Terms of Service.

What is Prohibited

• • Automated scraping of quiz questions, answers, or explanations
• • Using bots or scripts to extract leaderboard data
• • Crawling course content or learning materials
• • Collecting user data or personal information
• • Using site content to train AI models or language models
• • Reverse engineering or attempting to bypass security measures
• • Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks

Technical Enforcement

We employ multiple technical measures to prevent unauthorized access:

• • User-agent blocking for known AI crawlers and bots
• • IP-based rate limiting and blocking
• • Request pattern analysis and anomaly detection
• • robots.txt and meta tags to discourage crawling
• • CAPTCHA challenges for suspicious activity
• • Automatic account suspension for violations

Reporting Abuse

If you discover unauthorized scraping or crawling of CivScore, please report it immediately to:

Include details such as the scraping method, data being accessed, and any relevant logs or evidence.

Exceptions & Permissions

If you have a legitimate use case for accessing CivScore data (research, partnerships, etc.), please contact us at partnerships@civicsense.app with details about your project. We may grant explicit written permission for approved use cases.

Consequences

Violations of this policy may result in:

• • Immediate account suspension or permanent ban
• • IP address blocking
• • Legal action and damages
• • Reporting to relevant authorities