Acceptable Use Terms

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Power Scraping turns Instagram posts you collect in your own browser into evidence-grounded venue intelligence. You tell us which profiles you are entitled to have collected and why; you collect only those, only under an Instagram account you are authorised to use, at your own risk and within Instagram's terms; and we keep a durable record of what you declared.

1. Declared, authorized targets only, under an account you may use

We accept records only for a profile you have declared as an authorized target, with an authorization basis (your own account, a signed creator contract, a documented client mandate, or public-interest research), a lawful basis for processing the personal data in its posts, and a reference we can audit. You confirm the basis is true and current, and you revoke the target as soon as it stops being true. We refuse to start a job for a profile that is not declared and active, records of any other account are dropped, and a target declared as your own account is collected only from a browser signed in to that account. A profile whose owner has objected is suppressed: nobody can declare it again. You collect in your own browser, under your own Instagram account and at your own risk: you must comply with Instagram's terms, and you must pair only a browser signed in to an Instagram account you are authorised to use - never one signed in to someone else's account.

2. No evasion of technical or contractual controls

The collector fails closed on a warning, a block, a rate limit, a challenge or a sign-out. It does not spoof device fingerprints, solve CAPTCHAs, rotate residential proxies, share or resell session credentials, or otherwise work around an access control. You may not ask us to; you may not modify or script the extension to do so, or spread one target's collection across several browsers or Instagram accounts to get around a limit; and you may not use any output to build such a capability. Requesting evasion is grounds for immediate suspension.

3. Data-subject handling

Collected material routinely contains personal data, and you are a controller of it (the data processing addendum sets out our role). You must have a lawful basis, provide the notice your jurisdiction requires, and honour access, correction, objection and erasure requests. We act on your documented instructions, delete a target's data on request, and never sell, pool or re-sell tenant data. Do not use the service for special-category profiling, surveillance of private individuals, or any decision about a person that produces a legal or similarly significant effect.

4. Retention and deletion

Collected records are retained for the retention window of your plan and are then deleted. Evidence is kept for exactly as long as the field it grounds. Audit events, which name the actor, the target and the declared basis but never post content or credentials, are retained for 24 months, longer than records, because they are what makes collection on your instruction defensible. You can request earlier deletion of any target at any time.