Terms of use

Information only

Gardvale provides an external check of public records (DNS, registry, and limited website signals). Results are information only. They are not an assessment, certification, audit, penetration test, or professional advice (including legal or security advice).

If you keep a copy for your own records, you may treat a printed or saved report as a pre-renewal security settings report. That phrase describes a settings snapshot for your own records only — not advice about insurance products or pricing.

Acceptable use

You may use Gardvale for only domains you control or are authorised to verify. You must not:

• use the service to probe, harass, or overload third-party systems;
• attempt to bypass rate limits, bot checks, or ownership verification;
• submit domains you do not control without a lawful basis;
• misrepresent results as a formal audit or certification.

Ownership verification (DNS TXT) and opt-out are described on Verify and Opt out. Scanning methods are summarised on How we scan.

Free tool and Free monitor tier

The free public domain check and the Free monitor seat may change, pause, or end without notice. Cached results may be reused for a limited time. We may refuse scans when bot protection, rate limits, or configuration checks fail closed. Scans always require Turnstile.

Business and Partner path checks

Business and Partner monitoring makes limited read-only GET requests to well-known admin, setup and debug paths on domains you have verified you own or control. Requests use a fixed safe path list only — no login attempts, no brute force, and no payloads. Free one-off scans never run these probes. You confirm this consent when you start domain ownership verification.

Paid plans — Business and Partner

Paid monitor tiers are Business (indicative A$49 / month or A$490 / year, up to three domains, weekly rescans) and Partner (multi-domain, white-label, monthly or yearly). No GST charged. If you subscribe to a paid plan, we will give reasonable notice (for example, 30 days) before material changes to these terms that adversely affect you, or before we terminate the paid service other than for breach or unlawful use. Where we terminate or materially reduce a paid plan without cause, unused prepaid fees for the unused period are refunded on a pro-rata basis. Pre-renewal security settings report framing applies to Business and Partner only — not the Free tier.

How we notify changes to these terms

We may update these terms from time to time. For the free tool, the updated terms take effect when posted on this page. For paid plans, we will notify the account contact by email (and, where practical, by an in-product notice) of material changes, with the notice period above where required. Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance of the updated terms.

Liability — free tool

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Gardvale is not liable for indirect or consequential loss arising from use of the free check, and our aggregate liability for a claim relating to a free scan is limited to AUD $100 or the amount you paid us for that scan (if any), whichever is greater.

Nothing in these terms excludes, restricts or modifies any consumer guarantee, right or remedy under the Australian Consumer Law or other law that cannot be excluded. Where liability cannot be excluded but can be limited, our liability is limited to re-supplying the services or paying the cost of re-supplying them.

Liability — paid tiers

For paid plans, subject to the Australian Consumer Law and other non-excludable rights, our aggregate liability arising from the paid service is limited to {{PAID_LIABILITY_CAP}}.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia. The courts of New South Wales have exclusive jurisdiction, subject to any non-excludable rights you have under the Australian Consumer Law.

Contact

Questions about these draft terms: see Privacy for privacy and abuse contacts, or /.well-known/security.txt for security reports.