Acceptable Use
What Proxio's proxy network is built for, what's prohibited, and how destination blocklists help keep the network clean.
Proxio's proxy network exists for legitimate data collection and access use cases. This page is a practical, plain-language summary of what that means. For the binding legal agreement, see the official Terms of Service.
What the network is for
Proxio proxies are built for tasks like:
- Scraping publicly available web data
- SEO and SERP rank monitoring
- Price tracking and e-commerce intelligence
- Ad verification
- Brand and IP protection monitoring
- Market research
- Managing your own social media accounts, within each platform's own terms
If your use case looks like one of these, you're in the right place.
What's prohibited
Regardless of use case, the following are never allowed on Proxio's network:
- Illegal activity of any kind
- Fraud, including payment fraud, account takeover, or ad fraud
- Attacks on other systems or unauthorized access attempts: credential stuffing, vulnerability scanning, DDoS, and similar
- Harassment or abuse directed at individuals
Violations affect your account
Activity that violates these principles can lead to suspension of the credential, service, or account involved.
Destination blocklists
Proxio gives you control over where traffic from each credential is allowed to go. From a service's Sub-users tab, you can apply a built-in blocked-destination preset, or add your own custom host and port rules to a credential, to keep specific destinations off-limits for it. On top of whatever you configure, Proxio also applies a baseline of global restrictions across the network to keep the platform compliant and free of abuse.
Questions or exceptions
Not sure whether a use case is allowed, or need an exception to a blocklist? Don't guess. Open a support ticket and describe what you're trying to do.