OwnersPalBot

Who runs it

OwnersPalBot is run by VIVE AI, Inc., the company behind OwnersPal. It is not a search engine, and it does not collect pages from the wider web.

What it reads

Only the website address an owner gave us, and pages on that same site that anyone can open, such as the home, about, menu, gallery and team pages. It does not visit any other site, sign in, fill in forms or read private pages.

Why and how often

It runs only at the request of the business that owns the website: when they add or change their website address in OwnersPal, or ask us to refresh. After that it checks again about every one to four weeks. It asks for pages one at a time, not all at once.

It follows robots.txt

Before it reads a page, OwnersPalBot reads that site's robots.txt and skips every page the file does not allow for OwnersPalBot or for all robots. If a site has no robots.txt, or we cannot read it, we treat the site as open.

Two page checks

Two other tools read a site only to tell its owner what to fix: the findability score and the website setup check. They open the owner's home page and files such as robots.txt and sitemap.xml, because reporting on those files is their whole job, and they do not use robots.txt to decide whether to look.

The exact names it uses

Every request carries one of these User-Agent strings, and each one links back to this page.

• Reading a business's website (OwnersPalBot)

  OwnersPalBot/1.0 (+https://ownerspal.app/bot) Mozilla/5.0 (compatible) Python/httpx

• Findability score

  OwnersPalFindabilityBot/1.0 (+https://ownerspal.app/bot) Mozilla/5.0 (compatible) Python/httpx

• Website setup check

  OwnersPalSetupCheck/1.0 (+https://ownerspal.app/bot)

How to stop it

Add these two lines to your site's robots.txt and OwnersPalBot will not read your site:

User-agent: OwnersPalBot
Disallow: /

Or email us your website address and we will stop all three: privacy@ownerspal.app