Abditex

Abditex

AbditexOntologyBot

If you've seen AbditexOntologyBot/1.0 in your server logs and want to know who we are or ask us to stop, you're in the right place.

Who operates it

AbditexOntologyBot is operated by the team behind Abditex, a privacy-focused inventory app for physical bullion. The bot is not a third-party service; it's run directly by us, on our own infrastructure, for the sole purpose described below.

What it does

The bot fetches publicly available pages from bullion-dealer websites and mint sources to compile the dealer directory that ships inside the Abditex Bullion app. It reads pages a human visitor could read. It does not log in, does not bypass paywalls, does not submit forms, and does not interact with non-public endpoints.

The bot collects only directory-relevant information about dealers: business name, location at zip-code granularity, public catalog metadata, contact URLs. It does not collect any user data of any kind. Abditex has no users on the web; the bot is not a tracker.

Crawl cadence

The directory is refreshed approximately once per month. We do not crawl continuously, and we do not re-fetch pages between scheduled runs except to retry transient failures.

How we behave

  • We honor robots.txt. If your site's robots.txt disallows our user-agent, or disallows all crawlers from a path, we don't fetch it. We re-read robots.txt at the start of each run.
  • We rate-limit ourselves. The bot enforces a per-source minimum of 2 seconds between requests as a hard floor. In practice, requests to a single source are much further apart than that. We back off further on any 429 or 5xx response.
  • We identify ourselves. Every request carries the user-agent AbditexOntologyBot/1.0 (+https://abditex.com/bot), so this page is one click away from any log line.

Removal requests

If you operate a site we crawl and would like us to stop, email support@abditex.com and we'll honor it.

We'll remove the source from our crawl set and drop any cached records derived from your site. The next scheduled directory refresh won't include anything sourced from it.

You can also block the bot via robots.txt at any time; we'll honor it on the next run without needing to hear from you. Email is the right channel if you want confirmation, want existing data removed, or want to discuss alternatives.

Security disclosure

Vulnerability reports about the bot, or any other Abditex system, go to the security disclosure page, not here.