SteadyNode – Terms of Service

Operator: Wild Protection Korlátolt Felelősségű Társaság (Wild Protection Kft.)
Registered seat: Aranyág Kert 23, Hódmezővásárhely 6800, Hungary
Company registration no.: 06-09-029431 | Tax no.: 32488337-2-06 | EU VAT: HU32488337
Contact: info@steadynode.io
Version: 1.1 | Effective date: 2026-10-28 | Last updated: 2026-10-28

1. Introduction and Acceptance

1.1. These Terms of Service ("Terms") form a binding agreement between Wild Protection Kft. ("we", "us", "Provider") and the legal entity or professional that registers for or uses SteadyNode ("Customer", "you").

1.2. "SteadyNode" or the "Service" means our web-based infrastructure monitoring platform, including HTTP/HTTPS monitoring, Playwright-based synthetic browser testing, SSL/TLS certificate checks, DNS checks, alerting, dashboards, APIs, and related software and documentation.

1.3. By creating an account, clicking "I agree", or using the Service, you accept these Terms, the Acceptable Use Policy in Part B ("AUP"), the Data Processing Agreement, and our Privacy Policy. If you accept on behalf of a company, you confirm that you have authority to bind it.

1.4. If you do not agree, you must not use the Service.

2. Business Use Only

2.1. The Service is intended exclusively for business, commercial, and professional purposes. It is not offered to consumers.

2.2. By registering, you represent and warrant that:

(a) you act solely for purposes related to your trade, business, craft, or profession;
(b) you are registering on behalf of a business or for your own business or professional use; and
(c) you are at least 18 years old and have legal capacity to contract.

2.3. The Service is not offered for personal or consumer use. Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits mandatory consumer rights or other protections that apply to you under applicable law. Your legal status depends on the circumstances and purpose of your use, not only on the wording of these Terms.

3. Public Beta Status

3.1. The Service is in a public beta phase. Features may be incomplete, change, break, or be removed at any time.

3.2. The Service is currently provided free of charge. This does not create any right to free use in the future. We may introduce paid plans, usage limits, or quotas. We will notify you at least 30 calendar days before any fee, or any new quota that materially reduces the functionality you currently use, applies to your account. No charges apply unless you expressly choose a paid plan; you may stop using the Service at any time. This Section does not restrict technical limits, throttling, or blocking that we apply for security, abuse-prevention, or capacity-protection reasons under Section 8 and Part B.

3.3. We may reset, migrate, or delete beta data (including monitors, check history, and configurations). You are responsible for keeping your own copies of configurations you need.

4. Account and Security

4.1. You must provide accurate information and keep it up to date.

4.2. You are responsible for all activity under your account, including that of your team members, API keys, and integrations. Keep credentials and API tokens confidential and notify us immediately of any unauthorised use.

4.3. You may allow only your employees, contractors, and clients who act under your authority ("Authorised Users") to use the Service through your account. You are liable for their compliance with these Terms.

5. Right to Use the Service; Restrictions

5.1. Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to use the Service for your internal business purposes during the term of these Terms.

5.2. You may not, and may not allow others to:

(a) copy, modify, or create derivative works of the Service;
(b) reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract source code, except where mandatory law permits this despite this restriction;
(c) resell, sublicense, or offer the Service as a competing service, or use it to build a competing product;
(d) interfere with or circumvent usage limits, security measures, or technical restrictions;
(e) use the Service in violation of the AUP or applicable law.

5.3. We and our licensors retain all intellectual property rights in the Service. No rights are granted except those expressly stated. Feedback you give us may be used by us freely without obligation or compensation.

6. Customer Content and Monitoring Targets

6.1. "Customer Content" means the data you submit or configure in the Service, including target URLs, hostnames, request headers and bodies, Playwright scripts, credentials, variables, and contact details for alerts.

6.2. You keep ownership of Customer Content. You grant us a limited, non-exclusive licence to host, process, transmit, and display it only as needed to (a) provide, secure, and support the Service; (b) enforce these Terms and the AUP; (c) comply with applicable law; and (d) produce aggregated, de-identified statistics about the operation of the Service that do not identify you or your targets. Where Customer Content contains personal data, we process it in accordance with your documented instructions and the Data Processing Agreement.

6.3. You are solely responsible for:

(a) the legality, accuracy, and appropriateness of Customer Content and of all monitoring targets;
(b) holding all rights, consents, and authorisations needed to monitor each target (see Part B);
(c) the content of any scripts you run in the synthetic testing engine; and
(d) any credentials you store. We recommend using dedicated, least-privilege test accounts and not using production administrator credentials.

6.4. Playwright scripts and requests run from our infrastructure on your instructions. Their effects on third-party systems are your responsibility.

7. Data Protection

7.1. Each party shall comply with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) and applicable Hungarian data protection law.

7.2. Where you determine the purposes and means of processing personal data in Customer Content, you are the controller and we act as your processor. Our Data Processing Agreement forms part of these Terms and applies to that processing. We act as controller for account, service-security, and operational data that we process for our own purposes, as described in our Privacy Policy. The parties' roles depend on the actual processing.

7.3. You must not use the Service to intentionally process special categories of personal data (Art. 9 GDPR), personal data relating to criminal convictions and offences (Art. 10 GDPR), payment-card data, or real users' financial credentials.

7.4. You must configure monitored targets and scripts to minimise personal data and use synthetic test data wherever possible. Monitor results, response content, and screenshots may incidentally contain personal data; you must not use the Service as a repository for real customer or employee data. This does not prohibit business contact details or alert-recipient information needed to use the Service. If you include personal data in Customer Content contrary to these Terms or the DPA, you do so at your own risk, you act as the controller of that data, and, as between you and us and to the extent permitted by law, you are solely responsible for it, including for claims by data subjects or authorities, subject to Section 11. We have no obligation to detect, filter, or review such data.

8. Suspension and Termination

8.1. Immediate suspension. We may, at our sole discretion and without prior notice, immediately suspend, restrict, throttle, or terminate your account, API access, or any monitor if:

(a) we detect or reasonably suspect a violation of the AUP or these Terms;
(b) we detect abnormal or high-frequency traffic, or resource use that abuses, endangers, or degrades our infrastructure, other customers, or third parties;
(c) we receive a complaint, abuse report, or legal request relating to your use;
(d) it is necessary to protect the security, integrity, or availability of the Service or any third-party system; or
(e) we are required to do so by law or by a competent authority.

8.2. Where we judge it practical and safe, we may notify you of the reason, but we have no obligation to do so. Suspension or termination under this clause gives rise to no compensation or refund claim.

8.3. We may block IP ranges, domains, or targets, and report unlawful conduct to authorities and affected third parties.

8.4. Termination for convenience. Because the Service is free and in beta, we may discontinue the Service or terminate your account at any time, for any reason, on notice (which may be given by email or in-app). You may stop using the Service at any time. To close your account and request deletion, contact us at info@steadynode.io; Customer Content is handled under Section 8.5 and the DPA.

8.5. Effect of termination. Your right to use the Service ends. We will delete Customer Content from active systems within 30 days after termination, or sooner where suspension results from an AUP violation, subject to legal retention and preservation duties. If enabled, DigitalOcean retains native Droplet backups for four weeks on weekly schedules or seven days on daily schedules; usage-based backups follow their configured retention period, and snapshots remain until deleted. Separately configured application-consistent backups follow the retention period set for their private destination. For personal data in Customer Content, the DPA governs return and deletion. Sections that by their nature should survive (including 6.3, 7, 8.5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15) survive termination.

9. Disclaimer of Warranties; "As-Is" and "As-Available" Service; No SLA

9.1. THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE", WITH ALL FAULTS, DURING THE BETA PHASE. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, express or implied, statutory or otherwise, including any warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, quiet enjoyment, and any warranty arising from course of dealing or usage of trade.

9.2. Without limiting 9.1, we do not guarantee or warrant that:

(a) the Service will be available, uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free;
(b) any monitor will run at any particular time or frequency, or that checks will be executed on schedule;
(c) any alert, notification, email, SMS, webhook, or integration message will be generated, delivered, or delivered on time;
(d) monitoring results, uptime figures, response times, screenshots, certificate or DNS data, or any other output will be accurate, complete, or reliable. False positives and false negatives may occur;
(e) the Service will detect any outage, degradation, vulnerability, expiry, or incident; or
(f) data will be retained, preserved, or free from loss or corruption.

9.3. No Service Level Agreement. There is no SLA. No uptime commitment, response time, support commitment, service credit, or maintenance window applies. Any statement on a website, status page, or documentation about availability is informational only and not binding.

9.4. The Service is a supplementary tool. You must not rely on it as your only means of monitoring and must maintain independent, redundant monitoring and alerting for any system whose failure could cause material loss, safety risk, or legal liability.

9.5. The Service is not designed for, and must not be used in, high-risk or safety-critical environments (for example, medical devices, emergency services, critical infrastructure control, aviation, or nuclear facilities) where failure could lead to death, injury, or severe harm.

10. Limitation of Liability

10.1. Cap. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, our total aggregate liability to you and all persons claiming through you for all claims arising out of or relating to the Terms or the Service, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), under statute, or otherwise, including claims under the Data Processing Agreement, shall not exceed the total amount you actually paid to us for the Service in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim. Because the Service is currently free of charge, that amount is currently EUR 0 (zero).

10.2. Excluded damages. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we shall not be liable for any:

(a) indirect, consequential, incidental, special, exemplary, or punitive damages;
(b) lost profits, lost revenue, lost sales, lost business opportunities, or loss of anticipated savings;
(c) loss of goodwill or reputation;
(d) loss, corruption, deletion, or unavailability of data or configurations;
(e) business interruption, downtime of your or your clients' systems, or costs of procuring substitute services; or
(f) damages or losses resulting from missed, delayed, inaccurate, duplicated, or undelivered alerts or monitoring results, including where your website, application, API, server, certificate, or domain fails, expires, or becomes unavailable and SteadyNode does not notify you, or notifies you late or wrongly.

10.3. These limitations apply even if we were advised of the possibility of such damages and even if a remedy fails of its essential purpose. They apply whether or not the damage was foreseeable at the time of contracting (Section 6:143 Ptk.), to the maximum extent permitted by law. The parties agree that these limitations are reasonable because the Service is provided free of charge and in beta.

10.4. Third parties. We are not liable for the acts or omissions of third parties, including hosting, cloud, network, email, SMS, and messaging providers, and the operators of monitored systems.

10.5. Mandatory law. Nothing in these Terms limits or excludes liability that cannot be limited or excluded under mandatory Hungarian or EU law. In particular, liability for (a) damage caused intentionally, (b) damage to life, bodily integrity or health, and (c) damage caused by a criminal offence is not limited by this Section 10, and nothing in these Terms limits the rights of data subjects under Art. 82 GDPR. If any part of this Section is held unenforceable, it applies to the maximum extent allowed, and the remainder stays in force.

10.6. Reasonable allocation. You acknowledge that these limitations reflect a fair allocation of risk, that the Service is provided free of charge in beta, and that we would not offer the Service without them.

10.7. Claim period. Any claim against us must be raised in writing within one (1) year of the date you became aware, or should have become aware, of the circumstances giving rise to it. This shortens the general limitation period under Section 6:22 Ptk.

11. Indemnification

11.1. You shall defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Wild Protection Kft., its directors, officers, employees, and contractors from and against all claims, losses, damages, fines, penalties, costs, and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or relating to:

(a) your or your Authorised Users' breach of these Terms or the AUP;
(b) your monitoring of any target without proper authorisation;
(c) Customer Content or your scripts, requests, or configurations;
(d) any claim by a third party (including a target's owner, hosting provider, or authority) arising from traffic or activity generated through your account; or
(e) your violation of law or third-party rights.

11.2. We will notify you of any claim in reasonable time and may control its defence. You shall not settle any claim in a manner that imposes obligations on us without our written consent.

12. Confidentiality and Security Reporting

12.1. Each party shall protect the other's non-public business and technical information with at least reasonable care and use it only for performing these Terms, except where disclosure is legally required.

12.2. If you discover a vulnerability in the Service, report it to info@steadynode.io and give us reasonable time to fix it before disclosing it. Good-faith research that complies with the AUP will not be pursued by us.

13. Changes to the Terms and the Service

13.1. We may modify these Terms and the AUP. We will publish the updated version and notify you by email or in-app notice at least 30 calendar days before a material change takes effect, except where a shorter period is required by law or reasonably necessary to address an urgent security or abuse-prevention issue. If you do not agree to a material change, you may stop using the Service and terminate your account before it takes effect. Changes to the Service itself (features, limits, availability) are governed by Sections 3 and 8 and do not require advance notice, except for fees and quotas covered by Section 3.2.

13.2. Continued use after the effective date is acceptance of the changes. If you disagree, you must stop using the Service.

14. Governing Law and Disputes

14.1. These Terms and any dispute or non-contractual claim arising from them are governed by the laws of Hungary, excluding its conflict-of-law rules and excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG).

14.2. Subject to mandatory rules, the parties first try to settle disputes in good faith for 30 days after written notice.

14.3. Failing that, the competent Hungarian courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction. We may seek injunctive relief against abuse in any competent court.

15. General Provisions

15.1. Entire agreement. These Terms, the AUP, the Privacy Policy, and the Data Processing Agreement are the entire agreement on the Service and replace prior understandings.

15.2. Severability. If a provision is invalid or unenforceable, the rest remain in force, and the provision is replaced by a valid one closest to its economic purpose.

15.3. No waiver. Failing to enforce a right is not a waiver.

15.4. Assignment. You may not assign these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them to an affiliate or a successor to our business.

15.5. Force majeure. We are not liable for failure or delay caused by events beyond our reasonable control, including internet or power failures, cloud or carrier outages, cyberattacks, government action, or natural disasters.

15.6. Notices. We may notify you by email to your account address, in-app, or on our website. You must send notices to us at info@steadynode.io and our registered seat.

15.7. Language. The English version controls over any translation.

15.8. Export and sanctions. You may not use the Service in breach of EU, Hungarian, or other applicable sanctions or export laws.

15.9. Relationship. The parties are independent contractors. There are no third-party beneficiaries, except for the indemnified persons in Section 11.

16. Prominent Notice of Key Terms (Section 6:78 Ptk.)

Some provisions of these Terms differ substantially from the default statutory rules or from usual contractual practice. We draw your special attention to the following, and by ticking the separate acceptance box at registration (or otherwise expressly accepting them), you confirm that you read, understood, and expressly accept them:

Section 2: business and professional use only;
Section 3.3: deletion and reset of beta data;
Section 6.2: scope of the licence to Customer Content;
Section 7: data-protection roles, restricted data, and allocation of responsibility;
Section 8: immediate suspension and termination without notice;
Section 9: "As Is" service, disclaimers, and no SLA;
Section 10: liability cap (currently EUR 0), excluded damages (including lost profits, data loss, and missed alerts), the shortened claim period, and application of these limits to DPA claims under Section 11 of the DPA;
Section 11: indemnification;
Section 13: changes to the Terms;
Part B (AUP): usage restrictions and enforcement;
Section 14: governing law and jurisdiction.

PART B – Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)

Applies to: All users of SteadyNode. Effective date: 2026-10-28

B1. Purpose and Scope

SteadyNode runs HTTP workers, Playwright synthetic browser engines, and SSL/DNS checkers from shared infrastructure. Misuse can harm third parties and other customers. This AUP is part of the Terms. You are responsible for compliance by all your Authorised Users and for all traffic created through your account, including by scripts, APIs, and integrations.

B2. Prohibited Uses

You must not use the Service, including its HTTP workers, synthetic testing engines, and request capabilities (including POST and other state-changing methods), to do any of the following.

B2.1. Load testing, stress testing, and denial-of-service

Perform load testing, stress testing, performance benchmarking under load, or capacity testing;
Launch, facilitate, or amplify any denial-of-service (DoS) or distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, or any traffic designed to exhaust the resources of a target;
Configure check frequencies, concurrency, retries, or numbers of monitors in a way that circumvents our limits or creates traffic disproportionate to genuine uptime monitoring;
Use the Service as a source of reflection, amplification, or botnet-like traffic.

B2.2. Port scanning and network discovery

Scan ports, probe services, fingerprint hosts, or enumerate IP ranges, subdomains, or services;
Discover, map, or probe internal, private, loopback, link-local, cloud-metadata, or otherwise non-public networks or addresses (for example, RFC 1918 ranges, localhost, or cloud instance metadata endpoints);
Use response timing, errors, or content to infer the existence or state of internal resources.

B2.3. Unauthorised targets

Monitor any website, server, API, domain, IP address, or infrastructure that you do not own, operate, or have explicit, documented authorisation to monitor;
Monitor third-party systems for the purpose of surveillance, competitive intelligence, scraping, or harassment.

You must be able to show us proof of authorisation on request. Authorisation must cover the nature, frequency, and method of the checks (including any POST requests or scripted browser actions).

B2.4. Circumventing security and SSRF protections

Bypass, evade, test, or attempt to bypass our Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) protections, URL validation, IP/host allow-lists and block-lists, DNS-rebinding defences, redirect restrictions, or egress controls;
Use DNS tricks, redirects, alternative IP encodings, URL parsers, protocol smuggling, or other techniques to make our workers reach a destination we would otherwise block;
Probe our infrastructure, other customers' data, or the Service for vulnerabilities except under Section 12.2 of the Terms.

B2.5. Other prohibited conduct

Violating any law, regulation, or third-party right, including computer misuse, data protection, and intellectual property laws;
Attempting unauthorised access to systems, accounts, or data, or deploying malware, exploits, or credential-stuffing or brute-force attacks;
Using POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, or scripted actions to submit spam, create fake orders or accounts, make payments, send messages, or alter data on systems in a way you have not authorised or that could cause harm;
Scraping, crawling, or mass data extraction;
Mining cryptocurrency or running unrelated workloads on our infrastructure;
Disguising the origin of traffic, spoofing identity, or evading our identification of your account (for example, by creating multiple accounts to avoid limits or bans);
Interfering with the Service or other customers, or placing an unreasonable burden on our infrastructure;
Uploading or processing illegal content, or content that is defamatory, infringing, or harmful;
Using the Service to test or demonstrate the weaknesses of third parties' systems.

B3. Fair Use and Rate Limits

We may set and change technical limits (for example, minimum check intervals, number of monitors, concurrency, script run-time, and request sizes) for security, abuse-prevention, or capacity-protection reasons under Section 8. Those technical measures may take effect without notice. You must respect them. Traffic that we judge to be abnormal, high-frequency, or abusive may be throttled, blocked, or terminated without notice.

B4. Customer Responsibilities

Verify before adding a target that you have the right to monitor it, and keep records of that authorisation.
Respect the target's terms, robots rules where relevant, and rate expectations.
Keep scripts safe and minimal. Do not run scripts that can create unintended side effects.
Use dedicated test accounts and non-production data for authenticated or write-capable checks where possible.
Promptly remove targets you no longer own or are authorised to monitor.

B5. Monitoring and Enforcement

B5.1. We may monitor use of the Service (including traffic patterns, targets, and request metadata) to enforce this AUP, protect the Service and third parties, and comply with law. We may review monitor configurations and scripts for these purposes.

B5.2. If we detect or suspect a violation, we may, immediately and without prior notice, take any of the following measures (alone or together): pause or delete monitors, block targets or IPs, throttle or suspend access, terminate your account, delete Customer Content, and preserve and disclose relevant information to authorities and affected third parties.

B5.3. Enforcement is at our discretion. Failure to act on a violation is not a waiver. We have no duty to monitor, and compliance remains your responsibility.

B5.4. You are liable for, and shall indemnify us under Section 11 of the Terms against, all losses, claims, and costs arising from your violation, including third-party claims, fines, and the costs of remediation and investigation. We reserve the right to claim damages and to seek injunctive relief.

B6. Reporting Abuse

To report suspected misuse of SteadyNode (for example, unwanted traffic originating from our workers), contact info@steadynode.io with the affected hostname/IP, timestamps (with timezone), and relevant logs. We will investigate in good faith and may share the outcome at our discretion.

B7. Changes

We may update this AUP under Section 13 of the Terms. Questions: info@steadynode.io.