SoomaBot

The web crawler run by Sooma.com – Web Services, Lda (Matosinhos, Portugal).

SoomaBot visits public websites under .pt, .it, .es, .fr, .de and .nl to record how each domain is used: whether there is an active site, a parked page or a redirect, what technology and hosting it runs on, and the business contact details the site publishes (company name, VAT number, business email and phone).

Why we collect it

• Market research on web hosting and email security.
• Domain-reputation signals for our email filtering.
• Contacting businesses about our services.

How it behaves

• It reads robots.txt first and follows it for every page it fetches.
• Per domain it fetches the homepage and at most two other pages: the legal notice and the contact page.
• No more than 4 requests at a time to any one server.
• It does not run JavaScript, submit forms, log in or follow links beyond those pages.
• It identifies itself with this User-Agent:

  Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SoomaBot/1.0; +https://crawler.sooma.com)

Opting out

Add this to your site's robots.txt and SoomaBot will not fetch your pages:

User-agent: SoomaBot
Disallow: /

Or write to crawler@sooma.com with your domain, and we will delete the data we hold about it and leave it out of future crawls.

Your data

Controller

Sooma.com – Web Services, Lda, Rua D. João I 99, 4450-164 Matosinhos, Portugal

Data

Information published on the website itself: company name, VAT and company register numbers, business email addresses and phone numbers, and technical details of the domain (DNS, hosting, software).

Legal basis

Legitimate interest, Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.

Retention

Up to 24 months after the last crawl, or until you ask us to delete it.

Your rights

Access, correction, deletion and objection: write to crawler@sooma.com. You can also complain to the Portuguese data protection authority, the CNPD (cnpd.pt).

Crawler address

SoomaBot only connects from 2.29.146.71 (reverse DNS crawler.sooma.com), over IPv4.