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Acceptable Use Policy

This Acceptable Use Policy ("AUP") governs your access to and use of Company Radar, a product of Smoko Labs Pty Ltd (ABN to be confirmed) ("we", "us", "our"). By accessing Company Radar you agree to be bound by this AUP, our Terms of Service, and Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, you must not use Company Radar.

Last updated: 3 April 2026

Automated access, scraping, and bulk data extraction are strictly prohibited and may result in immediate account termination, IP blocking, and civil or criminal legal proceedings under Australian law.

1. About Company Radar

Company Radar is a business intelligence platform operated by Smoko Labs Pty Ltd that aggregates publicly available Australian company data from sources including the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), the Australian Business Register (ABR), and state-based building and licensing registers. Our product suite includes Gone Quiet, Gone Quiet Intelligence, Company Radar, and Accountant Dashboard.

While the underlying data may originate from public sources, our compilation, curation, enrichment, presentation, and analytical outputs constitute an original database and intellectual property of Smoko Labs Pty Ltd, protected under the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) and applicable database rights.

2. Permitted Use

You may use Company Radar solely for your own internal, non-commercial research and business intelligence purposes consistent with the subscription plan you have purchased. Permitted use means:

  • Manually searching for and reviewing information about specific companies
  • Monitoring companies relevant to your own business interests or client relationships (within your plan limits)
  • Exporting limited data for your own internal records, to the extent expressly permitted by your plan
  • Accessing Company Radar through a standard, unmodified web browser operated by a human user

3. Prohibited Activities

The following activities are strictly prohibited and constitute a material breach of this AUP and our Terms of Service.

3.1 Automated Access and Scraping

Any automated, programmatic, or systematic access to Company Radar is prohibited without our prior written authorisation. This includes, without limitation:

  • Web scrapers, crawlers, spiders, robots, or bots of any kind
  • Scripts, macros, or automated query tools
  • Browser automation frameworks including Selenium, Playwright, Puppeteer, or any headless browser
  • Any tool or technique that mimics, simulates, or impersonates human browsing behaviour
  • API calls made without a valid, currently authorised API key issued by us
  • Screen-scraping technologies, regardless of whether JavaScript is executed
  • Extracting data via network interception, reverse-engineering of our API, or monitoring of HTTP responses

If you require programmatic access to Company Radar data, contact us to enquire about our authorised API product.

3.2 Systematic Downloading and Bulk Data Extraction

You must not download, cache, store, or otherwise extract any substantial portion of Company Radar data. "Substantial" is interpreted broadly and includes any volume of data that exceeds what a single individual user would reasonably access during normal, incidental use of the platform. Prohibited conduct includes:

  • Systematically downloading company profiles, notices, signals, or search results
  • Aggregating data across multiple sessions or accounts to compile a dataset
  • Using browser extensions, plugins, or add-ons that automatically extract or store displayed data
  • Caching or mirroring any portion of Company Radar for later retrieval
  • Exporting data in quantities that exceed your plan entitlements or that suggest systematic extraction

3.3 Circumvention of Technical Measures

You must not attempt to circumvent, disable, or otherwise interfere with any technical measure we use to control or monitor access to Company Radar. This includes:

  • Circumventing or attempting to solve CAPTCHAs or challenge mechanisms using automated means
  • Evading or attempting to evade rate limits, request throttling, or IP-based restrictions
  • Rotating IP addresses, using proxy servers, VPNs, Tor exit nodes, or residential proxies to avoid access blocks
  • Spoofing, forging, or misrepresenting User-Agent headers or other browser fingerprint signals
  • Using multiple accounts to circumvent per-account usage limits
  • Exploiting any vulnerability, bug, or unintended behaviour in Company Radar to gain unauthorised access or capabilities

3.4 Redistribution and Republication

Data accessed through Company Radar is licensed to you for your personal or internal business use only. You must not:

  • Republish, resell, sublicense, or otherwise make available any Company Radar data to third parties
  • Redistribute data in its original or any modified or enriched form
  • Create, compile, or maintain any derivative database derived wholly or substantially from Company Radar data
  • Incorporate Company Radar data into any publicly accessible product, service, or dataset
  • Share account credentials to give unauthorised persons access to Company Radar data

3.5 Competitive Use and AI/ML Training

You must not use Company Radar data, directly or indirectly, to:

  • Build, develop, train, fine-tune, or evaluate any competing product or service
  • Create or contribute to any AI, machine learning, or large language model training dataset
  • Benchmark, analyse, or reverse-engineer our data aggregation, enrichment, or scoring methodologies
  • Assist any third party in building a product that competes with Company Radar or any Smoko Labs product
  • Conduct market research on behalf of a competitor or potential competitor

3.6 Interference with Infrastructure

You must not engage in any activity that disrupts, degrades, or places an unreasonable load on Company Radar's infrastructure. This includes:

  • Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks or any other coordinated flooding of our systems
  • Sending an abnormally high volume of requests in a short time period
  • Conducting vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, or security assessments without our prior written consent
  • Injecting malicious code, SQL injection, cross-site scripting, or any other attack vector
  • Introducing viruses, worms, trojans, or any other malicious software
  • Interfering with or disrupting other users' access to Company Radar

3.7 Misrepresentation and Fraud

  • Creating fake, fraudulent, or duplicate accounts
  • Impersonating any person or entity, or falsely claiming an affiliation with any person or entity
  • Providing false or misleading information during registration or in connection with your use of Company Radar
  • Accessing Company Radar using credentials belonging to another person without their authorisation
  • Obtaining a subscription through deception, including using stolen payment credentials

3.8 Harassment and Misuse of Company Data

Company Radar data must not be used for any purpose that targets, harms, or threatens individuals. This includes:

  • Using company data to identify, locate, harass, intimidate, threaten, or stalk individuals associated with listed companies
  • Compiling profiles on individuals for purposes other than legitimate commercial due diligence
  • Using data in connection with any unlawful debt collection, coercive conduct, or extortion
  • Any use that would constitute a breach of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) or the Australian Privacy Principles

4. Monitoring and Detection

We actively monitor access to Company Radar to detect and prevent abuse. By using Company Radar, you acknowledge and consent to the following:

  • We collect and analyse access logs, request patterns, timing data, and behavioural signals to identify potentially abusive or automated access
  • Automated detection systems may flag, rate-limit, challenge, or block access that exhibits characteristics of non-human or policy-violating behaviour
  • Access logs and associated data are retained for a minimum of 24 months for the purposes of security, abuse investigation, and potential legal enforcement
  • We may share access log data with law enforcement agencies or legal representatives where we reasonably believe a breach of this AUP or applicable law has occurred
  • We reserve the right to investigate any access pattern that we reasonably suspect constitutes a violation of this AUP, without prior notice to the user

Data Fingerprinting

Our data contains statistical and structural fingerprints that uniquely identify it as originating from Company Radar. These fingerprints enable us to detect and prove unauthorised reproduction of our data in third-party datasets, products, or services. Detection of these fingerprints in data you hold or distribute may be used as evidence of a breach of this policy.

5. Enforcement and Remedies

We take breaches of this AUP extremely seriously. Without limiting any other rights or remedies available to us, we may take any or all of the following actions in response to a suspected or confirmed breach:

Immediate termination

We may suspend or terminate your account immediately and without prior notice for any serious breach of this AUP, including (but not limited to) automated scraping, bulk data extraction, or circumvention of technical measures.

IP blocking

We may block access from your IP address, IP range, organisation, or any associated IP addresses, including proxy or VPN endpoints identified in connection with the breach.

Injunctive relief

We reserve the right to seek urgent injunctive or other equitable relief from any court of competent jurisdiction in Australia to restrain any actual or threatened breach of this AUP, without the need to prove actual damage.

Liquidated damages

You acknowledge that commercial scraping or systematic data extraction causes harm that is difficult to quantify. Accordingly, you agree to pay liquidated damages of AUD $10,000 per incident of commercial scraping or systematic data extraction as a genuine pre-estimate of our loss — or our actual proven damages if higher, whichever is greater. This clause survives termination of your account or subscription.

Debt recovery and costs

We may recover from you all costs incurred in investigating and responding to a breach, including reasonable legal costs on a solicitor-client basis, forensic investigation costs, and court filing fees.

Cooperation

You agree to cooperate fully and in good faith with any investigation we conduct in connection with a suspected breach, including providing access to relevant systems, logs, or other evidence on reasonable request.

6. Reporting Violations

If you become aware of any actual or suspected violation of this AUP — including suspected scraping, data harvesting, or misuse of Company Radar data — please report it to us promptly. We take all reports seriously and will investigate each one.

7. Changes to This Policy

We may update this AUP from time to time to reflect changes in our services, applicable law, or industry practices. We will indicate the date of the most recent revision at the top of this page. Continued use of Company Radar after any change to this AUP constitutes your acceptance of the revised terms.

For significant changes, we may provide additional notice via email or an in-product notification.

8. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

This AUP is governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia. You irrevocably submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of New South Wales and any courts competent to hear appeals from those courts. Nothing in this clause limits our right to seek urgent injunctive relief in any jurisdiction.