These API Terms of Use ("API Terms") govern programmatic access to the Baaed FREE SEO Suite application programming interfaces (the "API"). They are an addendum to, and incorporate by reference, our Terms of Service.
1. Eligibility and Authentication
API access requires a valid API key issued from your account dashboard. Each key is associated with a specific account and plan. You are responsible for keeping API keys confidential. Do not commit keys to public source-code repositories. Treat keys like passwords.
If a key is compromised, rotate it immediately from your account. We may rotate or revoke keys without notice if we detect compromise or abuse.
2. Plan Limits and Rate Limits
API access is governed by the limits of your current plan, including:
- Per-minute rate limits — documented in our API reference. Exceeding the limit returns HTTP 429 with a
Retry-Afterheader. - Per-day or per-month quotas — reset at the start of each calendar day or billing period in UTC.
- Concurrency caps — the maximum number of in-flight requests per key.
- Output-size caps — large responses may be paginated or truncated.
We may change these limits with reasonable notice (at least 30 days for paid plans, except where shorter notice is necessary to mitigate abuse).
3. Acceptable Use
Your use of the API is also governed by our Acceptable Use Policy. In addition, when using the API you must not:
- Make calls at a rate that destabilises the Service for other users.
- Use multiple keys, accounts, or IP rotation to evade rate limits or quota.
- Use the API to build a directly competing product.
- Resell or redistribute API responses except as part of a value-added end-user product, and only to the extent your plan permits redistribution.
- Use the API in any way that would cause our IP ranges to be blacklisted by the third parties we depend on (e.g. AI providers, search engines).
- Cache responses for longer than is reasonable for your application's needs (we serve fresh data; cached data may be misleading).
4. Attribution
Where API responses are presented to end-users in your product, you must provide reasonable attribution to Baaed FREE SEO Suite unless your plan agreement explicitly waives this requirement. Acceptable attributions include "Powered by Baaed FREE SEO Suite" with a link to our website, or a discreet credit in your product's "About" or "Sources" section.
5. Data Handling
API requests and the data they contain are subject to our Privacy Policy and our Sub-processors page. If you submit personal data of your end-users via the API, you are the controller of that data and we are the processor. Where required, our Data Processing Agreement is incorporated by reference.
Do not submit the categories of sensitive data prohibited in our AI Policy § 4: PHI, payment-card data, government identifiers, classified information, trade secrets.
6. Service Availability
API uptime targets and any service credits available for outages are described in our Service Level Agreement. The free API tier is provided "AS IS" with no uptime commitment.
7. Versioning and Deprecation
- We use a date-prefixed API version path (e.g.
/v1/,/v2/). - Backwards-incompatible changes are released only in a new version.
- When an API version is deprecated, we provide at least 6 months' notice before turning it off, with migration guidance.
- Security-driven changes may be made on shorter notice if necessary; affected users are notified at the email on file.
8. Webhooks
If your plan includes webhooks, you are responsible for receiving them at the URL you configure, validating the signature header, and responding with a 2xx status within the documented timeout. We retry failed deliveries with exponential backoff for up to 24 hours; deliveries that consistently fail may cause your webhook subscription to be disabled.
9. Suspension and Termination
We may suspend or terminate API access immediately if:
- You breach these API Terms, our Terms of Service, or our Acceptable Use Policy.
- Your usage is causing harm to the Service, to other users, or to our infrastructure.
- We are required to do so by law or by a third-party provider on whose service we depend.
- We discontinue the API or a specific endpoint (with the notice required by Section 7).
You may terminate API access at any time by deleting your keys from your account dashboard.
10. Pricing and Overages
Free-tier API usage is included with the corresponding plan. Paid-plan API limits are described on the Pricing page. Overage charges, if any, are calculated at the rate displayed in your account dashboard at the time of the request and are billed on the next invoice.
11. Intellectual Property in API Responses
API responses comprise (a) data we fetched from public sources (no IP claim by us beyond the structure of the response), (b) data we computed (e.g. SEO scores, parsed metadata; you have a licence to use the response in your application but we retain rights in the underlying methodology), and (c) AI-generated text (governed by Section 6 of our Terms of Service and our AI Policy).
You may not copy, modify, or republish API responses in a manner that misrepresents the source or that violates the rights of the underlying data publisher.
12. Logging and Monitoring
We log API requests for security, abuse-detection, billing, and debugging purposes. Logs include the request URL, HTTP method, status code, response size, latency, IP address, key identifier, and approximate geographic origin. We do not log request bodies or response bodies in our standard logs except in the case of error sampling for debugging, where the sample is access-restricted and retained for no more than 30 days.
13. Changes to These API Terms
We may modify these API Terms with at least 30 days' notice for material changes. Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance.
14. Contact
API support: info@baaed.com with subject "API".