Bright SDK Ethical Usage of Residential Proxies
At Bright SDK, we are committed to enabling only ethical, transparent, and lawful use of our residential proxy network. We carefully review every application and use case to ensure it meets our ethical guidelines before approval.
Note: The use cases listed below represent the approved categories for which our residential proxy network may be used.
Account Management
Businesses manage accounts, verify data, monitor visibility, and check performance. Teams verify test account workflows and experiences from different locations using our network. This supports innovative account automations, enhanced operations, quality control, and localized strategies.
Ad Link Verification
Advertisers and agencies verify that paid ads, affiliate links, landing pages, and redirects work correctly across geographies. Teams test users' ad journeys to identify broken links, unauthorized redirects, cloaking, or region-specific campaign issues. This helps ensure users reach the intended destination and reduce ad-fraud.
Analyzing Broadband Affordability and Access
Gathering public pricing and availability data from internet providers to study broadband affordability and digital equity. Bright Data's Residential Proxy product helps researchers access location-specific public information needed to identify disparities across communities.
Archiving Public Legal and Policy Documents
Collecting and preserving publicly available legal, regulatory, and policy documents from government sources. Bright Data helps academic and public-interest researchers build accessible archives that support transparency and long-term analysis.
Brand Protection
Brands monitor marketplaces, social platforms, search results, and regional websites to detect counterfeits, unauthorized sellers, trademark misuse, price violations, and misleading product listings. Our network is used to support faster detection, enforcement, and protection of consumers, partners, and brand reputation.
Building Open-Access Sustainability Databases
Collecting publicly available corporate sustainability and emissions information from across the web. Bright Data's Residential Proxy network enables reliable access to fragmented public sources, helping researchers and clean-energy initiatives improve transparency around environmental impact.
Business Data
Companies rely on public business data to enrich company profiles, monitor competitors, map industries, and identify market opportunities. Businesses access business directories, company websites, review platforms, and public registries available to local users. This enables reliable data collection at scale while reducing blocks, location-based gaps, and incomplete market visibility.
Combating Misinformation
Monitoring online misinformation, hate speech, and threats across public platforms. Bright Data's Residential Proxy technology helps organizations reliably access public web data to inform researchers, civil society groups, and policymakers.
Data Enrichment
Investment firms, research teams, and enterprises use alternative data to identify market signals beyond traditional financial reports. Businesses collect public web indicators such as pricing trends, product availability, hiring activity, reviews, traffic signals, and marketplace behavior. This supports investment research, forecasting, and strategic analysis.
Data for AI
AI companies require large volumes of fresh, diverse, and publicly available web data to train, evaluate, and improve models. Teams collect publicly available data from different regions, languages, and platforms to reduce location bias and improve dataset coverage. This supports AI training, reducing bias, model testing, retrieval systems, and evaluation workflows.
Evaluating AI Chatbot Reliability
Testing whether AI chatbots provide accurate, location-specific public information, such as election misinformation and disinformation, correct election dates, voter booth locations and more. Bright Data's Residential Proxy infrastructure enables secure, country-level testing while reducing the risk of blocking or biased access.
Financial
Financial application providers use public web data for risk assessment, onboarding, fraud detection, credit insights, and account verification workflows. Businesses access region-specific public sources and geo-specific online signals which improves data availability for financial services applications and supports safer digital financial activity.
Fintech
Fintech companies use public online data for fraud prevention, compliance checks, market monitoring, alternative scoring, and digital onboarding. Teams access financial websites, comparison platforms, public business records, online risk signals from relevant locations, and account specific information. This supports stronger risk analysis, better compliance workflows, and more informed financial decision-making.
Investigating Illicit Networks and Supply Chains
Supporting research into illicit finance, forced labor, corruption, and high-risk supply chains. Bright Data's Residential Proxies enable access to public corporate records, trade information, and web sources that help investigators uncover hidden networks and accountability gaps.
Mapping Global Internet Content
Studying where online content is hosted and how it is delivered across regions. Bright Data's Residential Proxy network helps researchers simulate access from different locations to better understand internet infrastructure, localization, and policy implications.
Market Research
Market research teams collect public online signals to understand consumer demand, category trends, competitive positioning, and regional market behavior. Researchers access localized content, pricing, search results, listings, reviews, and public discussions as they appear to real users. This improves benchmarking, demand analysis, and strategic planning.
Promoting Open Governance and Anti-Corruption Research
Collecting public records from government websites to support transparency, accountability, and anti-corruption initiatives. Bright Data's Residential Proxies help researchers access geographically restricted or difficult-to-reach public information.
Real Estate
Real estate platforms, investors, and analysts monitor property listings, prices, availability, neighborhood trends, and rental market movement. Teams access property portals to collect region-specific information that may vary by location. This supports valuation models, investment analysis, market forecasting, and competitive benchmarking.
Retail Backend
Retail operations teams track inventory, assortment, catalog changes, delivery options, seller activity, and fulfillment signals. Businesses access public retail data from multiple geographies to reduce gaps, restrictions or regional website variations. This supports supply chain decisions, marketplace monitoring, and competitive retail planning.
Retail Frontend
Retailers monitor how products, prices, promotions, availability, and customer experiences appear to shoppers in different locations. Teams view eCommerce websites as real consumers across cities, regions, and countries. This helps validate localized pricing, detect display issues, compare competitor storefronts, and improve the customer-facing retail experience.
Sales Intelligence
Sales teams use public web data to identify prospects, enrich CRM records, monitor company changes, and detect buying signals. Businesses collect information from company websites, business directories, professional platforms, and industry sources at scale. This supports lead generation, account prioritization, and go-to-market planning.
Security Threat Analysis
Supporting Cybersecurity teams in their efforts to ensure safer intelligence gathering, risk monitoring, and faster response to online threats. This includes identifying phishing, malware, fraud networks, counterfeit sites, and suspicious online infrastructure.
Social Data
Brands, researchers, and platforms analyze public social data to understand trends, consumer sentiment, influencer activity, and emerging conversations. Teams collect publicly available social content across regions and platforms while reducing the impact of rate limits, blocks, and location-based differences. This enables broader social listening and trend analysis.
Supporting Disaster Response
Helping emergency response teams identify public distress signals and location-based information shared online during natural disasters. Bright Data's Residential Proxy technology supports timely access to public web data that can be relayed to aid organizations and official response teams.
Testing Global Web Accessibility
Assessing whether users in different regions can access public websites, research portals, and online information equally. Bright Data's Residential Proxies enable geographic testing to identify access restrictions, censorship, or regional disparities.
Travel Backend
Travel platforms track inventory, route availability, supplier pricing, fare changes, and accommodation listings. Businesses collect public travel data across markets where results may vary by user location. This supports competitive pricing, revenue management, supplier benchmarking, and operational intelligence.
Travel Frontend
Travel companies monitor how flights, hotels, car rentals, and vacation packages appear to customers in different markets. Teams access travel websites from different geo-locations to verify prices, availability, promotions, and booking flows by geography. This supports customer experience optimization, pricing strategy, and competitive analysis.
Web Data Extraction
Businesses use web data extraction to convert public websites into structured datasets for pricing, product, market, and operational intelligence. Data teams distribute requests across our network to maintain access to public web sources and reduce interruptions. This supports large-scale collection of accurate and timely business data.