Bot identity

About zheenga's crawler

Our user-agent string: zheenga-bot/1.0 (+https://zheenga.com/bot)

What we are

zheenga is a worldwide dance-event discovery platform. Our crawler collects publicly-available dance-event information from a small, curated set of sources so dancers can find events more easily.

What we do

• Fetch public event listings that publish structured data (JSON-LD or ICS) we can parse.
• Follow feed URLs that a site owner has published as part of normal practice.
• Verify the robots.txt of a source we have already registered.

We do not crawl the open web indiscriminately, bypass robots.txt/paywalls/logins, scrape users' personal data, or resell data — zheenga is a discovery platform, not a data vendor.

What we respect

• robots.txt — honoured absolutely; connectors halt if it changes until we re-review.
• Crawl-Delay — we honour any rate guidance you publish.
• Rate limits — by default ≤1 request/second and ≤1,000/day per source; happy to slow further.
• Terms of Service — we keep a register of every source and don't run a connector against a source whose ToS doesn't permit it.

How to opt out

1. Add a rule to your robots.txt disallowing User-agent: zheenga-bot — we halt within 24 hours.
2. Email us and we'll stop and remove anything you ask us to.

Contact

Questions or takedown requests: bot@zheenga.com.