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Acceptable use policy

VectorLeads is for finding businesses and approaching them about business. This is what that means in practice, and what isn’t allowed.

Last updated Nov 10, 2026

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1.What VectorLeads is for

Use VectorLeads to find local businesses, understand their online presence and offer them services that fit what you found. This policy is part of our terms of service and applies to everyone in your workspace.

2.Contacting businesses

You must follow the marketing and privacy laws of the countries you contact businesses in. In every message:

Say who you are and which business you represent, with a real way to reach you.
Write about the business, to the business, about something relevant to the person’s role.
Give a working way to opt out, honour it quickly and permanently, and add the address to your suppression list in VectorLeads.
Use subject lines and claims that are true. Present findings as the measurements they are, with their source and date.

Some examples of local rules (not legal advice):

UK. Under PECR, marketing emails to limited companies need an opt-out; emails to sole traders and partnerships generally need their prior consent.
EU. Rules for business emails differ by country; some require consent for any unsolicited marketing email.
US. CAN-SPAM requires accurate headers and subject lines, your postal address, and an opt-out honoured within 10 business days.
Canada. CASL allows messages to addresses a business has published, without a statement refusing them, only when the message is relevant to the person’s role; it must identify you and include an unsubscribe.
Australia. The Spam Act 2003 allows inferred consent for conspicuously published addresses when the message relates to the person’s role; it must identify you and include an unsubscribe.
India. Follow the Information Technology Act, the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and TRAI rules for calls and messages.

3.Not allowed

Reselling data. Selling, licensing, publishing or giving away VectorLeads data as a list or database, or using it to build a competing product.
Scraping VectorLeads. Crawling or bulk-downloading the app or reports, using bots or scripts to operate it, or getting around credit, plan or rate limits.
Spam. Bulk unsolicited messages that break the rules above, or contacting people who asked you to stop.
Targeting individuals. Using VectorLeads to contact or profile people for anything other than their business: consumer marketing, harassment, stalking, publishing personal details, or discrimination.
Eligibility decisions. Using VectorLeads data to decide whether a person gets credit, a job, insurance or housing. VectorLeads is not a consumer reporting agency.
Probing or attacking sites. Using security findings to access, test or attack a website, or asking us for active scans. VectorLeads only runs passive checks.
Misrepresenting findings. Telling a business it has been hacked, is breaking the law or is about to be sued, or presenting a measurement as something it isn’t.
Data you can’t use. Uploading lists you have no right to use, or sensitive data about people such as health, religion or finances.
Anything unlawful or harmful. Breaking the law, infringing others’ rights, impersonating anyone, or uploading malware.
Testing our security without our written permission. If you find a vulnerability, tell us at [support email].

5.If this policy is broken

We may remove content, limit features, or suspend or close the account, depending on how serious the breach is, and we may report unlawful activity to the authorities. Where we reasonably can, we warn you first. Unused credits lapse when an account is closed for serious or repeated breaches of this policy.

6.Reporting misuse

If you think someone is misusing VectorLeads, or you received a message that breaks these rules from one of our customers, email [support email].

1.What VectorLeads is for

2.Contacting businesses

3.Not allowed

4.Social data

5.If this policy is broken

6.Reporting misuse