Proxies are legal tools, and what matters is how you use them. This category covers what counts as acceptable use, how to collect public data responsibly and where the hard limits are.
The main post, Safe and Acceptable Proxy Use Cases, lists legitimate work such as price monitoring, ad verification, SEO monitoring and brand protection, and states plainly what is never allowed. The full rules are in the acceptable use policy.
In practice, responsible collection means gathering only publicly visible data, reading a site's terms and robots.txt, limiting request rates and never using proxies to break into accounts or evade bans. The guide on where residential proxy IPs come from also explains why consent in IP sourcing matters.
Looking for concrete examples? Browse the proxy use cases or read how to monitor competitor prices within these rules.