ZeusRadarBot

ZeusRadarBot is the web reader used by Analytic Labs Data Corporation (“ALDC”, 550 Burrard St #2900, Vancouver, BC V6C 0A3, Canada) for its research service. It reads publicly available pages so that we can write short, attributed summaries that link back to the original.

Identification

• User agent: ZeusRadarBot/1.0 (+https://aldc.io/bot)
• Operator: Analytic Labs Data Corporation

How it behaves

• Reads and obeys robots.txt. A robots.txt that is unreachable, returns a server error, or is served as an HTML page is treated as “do not crawl”.
• Respects noindex and nosnippet directives in <meta name="robots"> tags.
• Does not log in to sites, get around paywalls, or solve bot challenges.

What we publish

Short summaries with the publisher, the title and date where the page gives them, and a link to the source, labelled as automated. We do not republish full pages. Where a publisher’s open licence (for example the Open Government Licence – Canada or the Statistics Canada Open Licence) allows reproduction, we reproduce only the opening of the page, with the attribution the licence requires.

Opt out, questions, problems

The most reliable way to exclude your site is to disallow ZeusRadarBot in your robots.txt; the bot checks it before reading your pages:

User-agent: ZeusRadarBot
Disallow: /

To ask us to stop reading your site, to remove content we hold from it, or to report a problem, email privacy@aldc.io with the domain. A person reads these requests and we will reply.

Analytic Labs Data Corporation
Email: privacy@aldc.io
Web: analyticlabs.io