About our bot

SelfCareNearby is an online directory.

To keep what we publish accurate, we use a small automated program, our bot, that reads public websites. This page explains what it does, in plain language.

Our bot is an automated program that visits public web pages. When it visits your website it tells your server who it is, using this name (its "user agent"):

DirectoryPlatformBot/0.1 (+https://selfcarenearby.com/about-our-bot)

The name includes the address of this page, so you can always find out who is visiting and why.

Only public information that businesses publish themselves, or that an open dataset or official public source lists:

• a business's official name, category, public address, main phone number and official website

• where it is, and whether it is open or closed

• plain details a business publishes about itself, such as its opening hours and the services it says it offers

• facts from open datasets of places published under open licences (see Third-party data licences in our Terms of use), kept with their source and date

Our bot never collects:

• reviews, ratings or star scores

• health or cure claims, or any promise of a result

• photos, logos or other artwork, which it does not copy

• text, descriptions or pictures copied from a website

• anything from review and booking websites such as Google or Yelp

• a practitioner's personal licence number, home address or personal contact details

• appointment books, client lists, or anything about individual customers or their health

• businesses we do not list, such as doctors' offices and physicians, dentists, chiropractors, physical therapists, mental-health counselors, pharmacies, weight-loss clinics, supplement sellers, acupuncture and alternative-medicine practitioners, and tattoo and piercing studios

Our bot is a polite visitor:

• It reads your site's robots.txt first and obeys it.

• It asks any one website for no more than one request every 5 seconds (slower if your robots.txt asks for a longer delay).

• It says who it is, every time, with the name shown above.

• It does not try to get past CAPTCHAs, log-ins or paywalls.

• It does not disguise itself as a web browser or a person.

• It does not rotate through different network addresses to avoid being blocked.

• If your site tells it to slow down or to stay away, it does. If your robots.txt cannot be read because the server answers "access denied" or "too many requests", it stays away.

To stop our bot visiting your website, add these two lines to your site's robots.txt file:

User-agent: DirectoryPlatformBot
Disallow: /

Or contact us (see below) and we will stop it for you. Either way we honour your request, and your organisation goes on our do-not-collect list, so it is never collected again.

If something we show about you is wrong or out of date, tell us and we will correct it. Please say which page and what should change.

You can also use our Report a correction page.

You can also write to us using the contact details below.

Email: info@wisenextstop.com

Write to us with questions, corrections or to opt out. Please tell us which website you mean.

Information about you belongs to you. You can ask us to correct it or to remove it, or ask us to stop collecting it, at any time.