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> **Original source:** https://www.zyte.com/data-compliance/

## Leading the Charge in Ethical and Compliant Web Scraping

At Zyte, we’re not just pioneers in web scraping, we’re setting the standard for ethical and compliant data collection. 

## Compliance built-in

[Zyte API](https://www.zyte.com/zyte-api/) has built-in compliance features to keep your projects secure and responsible

  

-   **Legally Compliant Schemas:** structured data formats that meet legal standards
    
-   **Website Blocking:** automatic login restrictions for many sites that prohibit scraping
    
-   **Rate Limiting:** controls to monitor and prevent server overload
    
-   **Compliant IP Sourcing:** legally and ethically sourced residential IPs
    
-   **KYC Checks:** ensuring accountability in use cases and data access
    

## Dedicated experts

Enterprise customers benefit from dedicated compliance experts to guide their data projects

  

-   **Legal Compliance:** assessments for personal data and copyright
    
-   **Ethically Sourced Data:** collaborating with you to ensure responsible data use
    
-   **Connect with your Legal Team:** confidently navigate web scraping with compliance at the forefront
    

Your data project will get a compliance review and dedicated hours from our in-house legal team.

## Compliance certification

We are helping to redefine what it means to scrape data responsibly

  

-   **GDPR and CCPA**: leading experts on how these laws impact data extraction
    
-   **EWDCI co-founders**: Ethical Web Data Collection Initiative (EWDCI) certification program
    
-   **FISD Alternative Data Standards**: co-authors of the leading standards
    

The EWDCI certification is a welcome signal to customers, partners, and the public that you operate a web data extraction business that operates at the highest degree of ethics.

## Step-by-step guide to compliant web scraping

To help you embark on your web scraping journey responsibly and ethically, we’ve created a checklist to guide you through essential compliance considerations.

Review each item—if you answer “Yes” to any of the following, consult a legal advisor or [talk to us.](https://www.zyte.com/data-extraction-b/#form)

## Check out our helpful guides to get started!

Most companies needing [web scraping](https://www.zyte.com/learn/what-is-web-scraping/) lack a dedicated team to advise on ethical data collection. At Zyte, ethical web scraping is at the heart of what we do.

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