Last Updated & Effective: October 17, 2026
These Terms of Service govern your access to and utilization of UserScanner, its real-time heuristic search engines, automated investigative probes, metered compute infrastructure, and RESTful APIs. By accessing the platform, submitting search queries, or purchasing digital compute credits, you explicitly agree to all provisions detailed herein, including the Acceptable Use Policy, accuracy and heuristic reconnaissance disclaimers, digital credit non-refundability terms, and binding arbitration.
Welcome to UserScanner ("we," "us," "our," or the "Service"). These Terms of Service (these "Terms") constitute a legally binding contract between you (whether an individual researcher, cybersecurity practitioner, forensic auditor, or corporate enterprise entity, hereinafter "User" or "you") and UserScanner.
By creating an account, authenticating via OAuth, accessing the dashboard, initiating any scan, or calling our APIs, you represent and warrant that you are at least 18 years of age (or the legal age of majority in your jurisdiction), possess the full legal power and capacity to enter into this agreement, and that your use of the Service complies with all applicable local, national, and international laws. If you do not unreservedly accept these Terms in their entirety, you must immediately terminate your session and cease all access to the Service.
UserScanner operates as an Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) search engine and digital footprint discovery tool. The platform is designed to aggregate, parse, and structure publicly available information across third-party websites, developer registries, social networks, and online communication platforms.
The Service operates strictly via automated, passive, and non-intrusive heuristic probing methodologies:
UserScanner interfaces with thousands of sovereign, independent third-party platforms across the decentralized open web. These external services are maintained by unaffiliated third parties who frequently, unpredictably, and without advance notification alter their infrastructure, including:
Understanding Investigative Variances (False Negatives & False Positives):
A. False Negatives (Temporary Module Omissions):While our automated engineering pipeline continuously monitors, benchmarks, and recalibrates our scanning modules, an upstream structural redesign or aggressive anti-bot challenge by an external service can momentarily cause a module to report no active account, even where an identity or registered account exists on that platform. An unconfirmed result indicates that the platform's endpoint did not positively validate presence during that specific probe execution; it does not constitute conclusive cryptographic evidence of non-existence.
B. False Positives (Disclaimed Platform Ambiguities): While our multi-vector heuristic algorithms are engineered to minimize erroneous matches and maintain high confidence, false positives may occasionally manifest. Factors contributing to occasional false positives include third-party wildcard routing (where an external server returns HTTP 200 for all queries regardless of registration), domain park pages, recycled username pools, or vanity URL redirects.
C. Corroborative Nature of OSINT: UserScanner provides automated reconnaissance intelligence and investigative leads. All findings must be corroborated through multi-source validation, manual inspection, and secondary verification. UserScanner data should never be relied upon as the sole determinant for irreversible legal, employment, credit, law enforcement, or disciplinary decisions.
UserScanner is strictly licensed for lawful, ethical, defensive, and authorized cybersecurity and investigative purposes. Authorized use cases include corporate risk management, self-assessment of personal digital footprints, authorized red/blue team security assessments, fraud prevention, brand abuse monitoring, academic research, and investigative journalism.
Strictly Prohibited Unlawful Conduct:
You agree under penalty of law that you shall NEVER use the Service to:
UserScanner reserves the absolute right to monitor aggregate traffic patterns, investigate credible abuse reports, cooperate fully with verified law enforcement requests and lawful legal process, and terminate or permanently blacklist any account, IP address, or API key found violating this Acceptable Use Policy without notice or refund.
Scanning queries, concurrent thread execution, residential proxy egress, and premium threat vectors are metered and purchased via digital "Credits."
Immediate Compute Resource Commitment:When you initiate an investigative scan (whether standard, deep 2,500+ platform sweep, phone OSINT, or autonomous cross-scan), UserScanner's infrastructure immediately provisions high-concurrency worker threads, dispatches hundreds of simultaneous network sockets, and routes traffic through specialized residential proxy pools. These network, compute, and third-party data resources are consumed irrecoverably in real-time.
Non-Refundable Digital Goods: Because compute cycles and proxy egress are expended immediately upon scan initiation, all purchases of Credits, subscription passes, or plan upgrades are strictly final and non-refundable once purchased or executed, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable statutory law.
Voluntarily Stopped Scans ("Stop Scan"):When a user elects to terminate a scan midway by clicking "Stop Scan," our engine halts pending network tasks to preserve proxy bandwidth and immediately records all intelligence collected up to that millisecond into your permanent history. Because computational and proxy resources were already consumed up to the moment of cancellation, no partial refunds, credit adjustments, or fee reversals will be issued for voluntarily stopped scans.
Legal Characterization of Credits: Credits constitute a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable software usage license to interact with computational search nodes. Credits carry no cash value, accrue no interest, do not constitute fiat currency or property, and cannot be redeemed, transferred, or exchanged for monetary funds. Credits do not expire while your account remains in good standing.
Merchant of Record & Fraudulent Chargebacks: Payment processing, currency exchange, and automated taxation are managed securely via our authorized Merchant of Record, Dodo Payments. Submitting a fraudulent chargeback or payment reversal without legitimate cause constitutes a material breach of contract, resulting in immediate account ban, credit forfeiture, and potential civil collection remedies.
Users provisioned with programmatic REST API keys ("API Keys") receive a non-exclusive, revocable license to access our endpoints according to their provisioned tier parameters.
UserScanner queries publicly accessible endpoints operated by independent third-party platforms (e.g., GitHub, Google, Instagram, Reddit, Telegram, etc.). UserScanner does not claim any endorsement, sponsorship, affiliation, partnership, or ownership of any third-party company, trademark, service mark, or brand referenced in scan results.
All brand names, service marks, platform titles, and corporate logos displayed in scan outputs are the exclusive intellectual property of their respective trademark holders. Their inclusion in UserScanner results serves solely as factual nominative fair use to identify the external public endpoint queried.
We recognize individual privacy rights. If you are an individual and wish to request that your personal handle, email address, or phone number be suppressed from public scan queries across our platform, you may file a formal Delisting Request.
To submit an opt-out request, send an email to support@user-scanner.in with the subject line "Delisting Request", specifying the exact identifier and reasonable proof of account or identity ownership. Validated delisting requests are processed within seven (7) business days, adding the identifier to our global query suppression filter.
THE SERVICE, INCLUDING ALL SCANNING ENGINES, RECONNAISSANCE PROBES, METADATA PARSERS, REST APIS, FORENSIC PDF GENERATORS, AND AGGREGATED INTELLIGENCE REPORTS, IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS WITH ALL FAULTS AND DEFECTS.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, USERSCANNER AND ITS OPERATORS, DIRECTORS, CONTRACTORS, AND LICENSORS EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY, OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, TITLE, QUIET ENJOYMENT, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
USERSCANNER MAKES NO WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION THAT: (A) THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR SPECIFIC INVESTIGATIVE REQUIREMENTS; (B) SCANS WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, OR ERROR-FREE; (C) RESULTS WILL BE 100% ACCURATE OR EXHAUSTIVE; (D) ALL EXISTING THIRD-PARTY ACCOUNTS WILL BE DETECTED (ABSENCE OF FALSE NEGATIVES); (E) ALL REPORTED MATCHES WILL BE EXCLUSIVELY ASSOCIATED WITH YOUR INTENDED TARGET SUBJECT (ABSENCE OF FALSE POSITIVES); OR (F) THIRD-PARTY PLATFORMS WILL PERPETUALLY REMAIN REACHABLE OR FREE FROM BOT-DETECTION INTERRUPTIONS.
TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL USERSCANNER, ITS FOUNDERS, OPERATORS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS, RESIDENTIAL PROXY PROVIDERS, OR AFFILIATES BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING LOSS OF PROFITS, REPUTATIONAL INJURY, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF DATA, OR LOSS OF GOODWILL, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
IN ANY EVENT, THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF USERSCANNER FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING UNDER OR RELATING TO THESE TERMS OR THE SERVICE SHALL BE STRICTLY LIMITED TO THE TOTAL AMOUNT ACTUALLY PAID BY YOU TO USERSCANNER FOR COMPUTE CREDITS IN THE THREE (3) MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE OCCURRENCE GIVING RISE TO LIABILITY.
User Indemnification Obligation:
You agree to vigorously defend, indemnify, and hold harmless UserScanner, its parent operators, developers, and infrastructure partners from and against any third-party claims, lawsuits, regulatory investigations, fines, losses, liabilities, costs, and reasonable legal expenses (including attorney fees) arising from or relating to: (a) your use or misuse of the Service; (b) any search query or identifier submitted by you; (c) any violation by you of this Acceptable Use Policy or applicable privacy/criminal laws; or (d) any action, disciplinary measure, or dispute initiated by you or against you based on data gathered through the Service.
Any dispute, controversy, or claim arising out of or relating to these Terms, the Service, billing, or any alleged breach thereof shall be resolved exclusively through confidential, binding individual arbitration conducted remotely and electronically in the English language under recognized commercial arbitration rules.
CLASS ACTION WAIVER: YOU AND USERSCANNER MUTUALLY AGREE THAT ALL CLAIMS MUST BE BROUGHT IN AN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS, CONSOLIDATED, REPRESENTATIVE, OR PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL PROCEEDING.
UserScanner operates strictly as a neutral technological intermediary, heuristic query engine, and automated search tool under recognized electronic service provider and intermediary safe harbour principles.
Passive Technical Intermediation: UserScanner does not initiate transmission of third-party content, does not select the receiver of the transmission, and does not select or modify the underlying information generated on external platforms. Our scanning engine solely automates the passive retrieval of data that third-party platforms have already made discoverable on the open web.
Publicly Discoverable Data: The scanning engine operates exclusively upon information that has been voluntarily made publicly available by users or third parties across public online profiles, repositories, and directories. UserScanner does not ingest or sell non-public private data.
Due Diligence & Prompt Remediation: UserScanner adheres to comprehensive due diligence standards, maintaining an active grievance redressal mechanism, expedited identifier delisting, and prompt cooperation with lawful legal process and verified law enforcement notices.
UserScanner maintains a dedicated compliance process to address user inquiries, abuse reports, legal notices, and statutory data delisting requests.
Turnaround Commitments: Receipts of any complaint, legal notice, or delisting request sent to our compliance desk are acknowledged within twenty-four (24) hours and investigated and addressed within fifteen (15) days from the date of receipt.
We reserve the right to amend, update, or revise these Terms at any time to reflect software updates, module recalibrations, regulatory changes, or revised commercial pricing. Material changes will be indicated by updating the "Last Updated" timestamp at the top of this document. Your continued access to or utilization of the Service following any update constitutes full acceptance of the revised Terms.
For operational inquiries, legal notifications, compliance disclosures, or enterprise contracts, please contact our administrative desk: