# Source: https://docs.apify.com/legal/actor-terms-and-conditions.md

# Actor Terms and Conditions

Effective date: January 12, 2026

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These Actor Terms and Conditions ("**Actor Terms**") outline the specific provisions governing the use of Actors in connection with the Platform and related Services. They are hereby incorporated into the [Apify General Terms and Conditions](https://docs.apify.com/legal/general-terms-and-conditions.md) ("**General Terms**").

By accessing or using any Actors on the Platform, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Actor Terms, in addition to the General Terms. In the event of any conflict or inconsistency between these Actor Terms and the General Terms regarding the use of Actors, these Actor Terms shall prevail.

## 1. Definitions

Any capitalized terms not otherwise defined in these Actor Terms shall have the meaning set forth in the General Terms.

1.1. "**Apify Maintained Actor**" refers to a public Actor developed and/or maintained, and directly supported by Apify and labeled as "Maintained by Apify" in Apify Store.

1.2. "**Community Actor**" refers to a public Actor (other than an Apify Maintained Actor) developed by any User and made available by such User in Apify Store.

1.3. "**Actor Developer**" refers to a User who creates an Actor through the Platform.

1.4. "**Actor Input**" is any data, input, or parameters provided by you when using an Actor.

1.5. "**Actor Output**" is any intermediate or final data generated during an Actor’s execution, or any data stored by an Actor to Apify or third-party data storage.

## 2. Your Rights and Obligations

2.1. Your use of Actors consumes your prepaid usage and resources, as billed to you according to Apify's pricing as outlined in the Agreement.

2.2. You may use Actors solely for legitimate purposes consistent with their intended functionality and in accordance with these Actor Terms, General Terms (including Apify Acceptable Use Policy), and the respective terms published by the Actor Developer(s) and all applicable laws and regulations.

## 3. Actor Intellectual Property Rights

3.1. Actor Developer reserves all rights, title, and interest, including all Intellectual Property rights in and to their Actor(s).

3.2. You retain all intellectual property rights in your Actor Inputs and Actor Outputs. However, you grant Actor Developer a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to process your Actor Inputs and Actor Outputs as necessary to provide the Actor’s functionality to you.

## 4. Actor Privacy

4.1. Subject to your permissions levels setting in your Account, you authorize us to share your Account information and Customer Data relating to the specific Actor with the Actor Developer. You acknowledge that Actor Developers shall not be considered our Subprocessors as defined in the [Apify Data Processing Addendum](https://docs.apify.com/legal/data-processing-addendum.md).

4.2. For Community Actors, you should also review any privacy policies or data handling practices provided by the respective Actor Developer, as they may have direct access to or control over the Actor Inputs and Actor Outputs processed by their Actors.

4.3. Unless the parties agree otherwise, all Actors are intended for the processing of non-confidential, non-proprietary information. Any Actor Outputs retrieved by you and processed through the Platform are considered Customer Data.

## 5. Disclaimer of Warranties

5.1. All Actors are provided “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE”. Your use of any Actor is at your sole risk. Apify expressly disclaims all warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. Apify makes no warranty that (i) any Actor will meet your requirements; (ii) any Actor’s operation will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free; (iii) Actor Outputs will be accurate or reliable; or (iv) the quality of any Actor will meet your expectations.

## 6. Liability Limitation

6.1. IN NO EVENT SHALL APIFY BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF APIFY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM: (i) THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE ANY ACTOR; (ii) THE COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS AND SERVICES RESULTING FROM ANY GOODS, DATA, INFORMATION, OR SERVICES PURCHASED OR OBTAINED OR MESSAGES RECEIVED OR TRANSACTIONS ENTERED INTO THROUGH OR FROM ANY ACTOR; (iii) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR ACTOR INPUTS AND ACTOR OUTPUTS. THIS LIMITATION OF LIABILITY IS FURTHER SUBJECT TO THE LIMITATIONS OUTLINED IN THE GENERAL TERMS.

## 7. Indemnification

7.1. You agree to indemnify and hold Apify, its affiliates, officers, agents, employees, and partners harmless from any claim or demand, including reasonable attorneys' fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of any Actor, your connection of the Actor to the Service, your violation of these Actor Terms, or your violation of any third-party’s rights.

## 8. Apify Maintained Actors

8.1. **License Grant**. We hereby grant you a worldwide, non-exclusive, non-assignable, non-transferable, and revocable license for the duration of the Agreement to use the Apify Maintained Actor(s) in the scope and manner compliant with the Agreement and our technical documentation. Under the license, you may not (i) modify, alter, process, reverse-engineer, or otherwise interfere with the Apify Maintained Actors, any of its parts, including in particular any source codes; (ii) reproduce, share, or distribute the Apify Maintained Actor(s) except for open source software subject to any opensource license approved by the Open Source Initiative ("**OSS**") components; (iii) create derivative or analogous works, copies of the Apify Maintained Actors, or any part thereof; (iv) sublicense, transfer, or assign any rights or obligations under the license, in whole or in part, to third parties.

8.2. **Limited Warranty**. We warrant that Apify Maintained Actors will perform substantially in accordance with their official description. Your sole and exclusive remedy for any breach of this warranty is that we will use commercially reasonable efforts to correct the non-conforming Apify Maintained Actor.

8.3. **Updates**. We may release updates, new versions, or discontinue Apify Maintained Actors at our sole discretion. We will endeavor to provide reasonable notice for any significant changes or deprecations. Use of AI Features. Some Apify Maintained Actors may provide AI features that utilize third-party AI companies’ technology ("**Third-Party AI Provider**"). You acknowledge that other users may submit information or materials to Apify Maintained Actors that generate results that are identical or similar to your Actor Outputs ("**Third-Party Results**"). You acknowledge that you have no right, title, or interest in or to any Third-Party Results. You permit Third Party AI Provider to use the Actor Input to deliver the Actor Output and comply with applicable laws. We contractually restrict Third Party AI Providers from using Actor Inputs for training or otherwise improving Third Party AI Providers’ services.

## 9. Community Actors

9.1. Community Actors are developed by Users and are made available on Apify Store without any verification or guarantees from Apify. Specifically, we do not guarantee security, accuracy, or legal compliance of the Community Actors.

9.2. Apify does not review, vet, endorse, or monitor the Community Actors for quality, security, or compliance. Actor Developers are solely responsible for their Community Actors. They have no obligation to maintain, update, or provide support for their Community Actors, unless explicitly stated by the Actor Developer themselves.

9.3. You are solely responsible for conducting your own due diligence on the Community Actor’s code (if available), reputation, and functionality before use. We do not assume any risks associated with using Community Actors, including, but not limited to, risks of data loss, privacy breaches, security vulnerabilities, inaccurate results, operational failures, and non-compliance with applicable laws.

9.4. You acknowledge that the Actor Developer will have access to and control over any Actor Inputs you provide. Apify has no control over or responsibility for how Actor Developers of Community Actors handle or secure Actor Inputs or Actor Outputs.

9.5. While Apify does not monitor Community Actors, you may report malicious or severely problematic Community Actors to Apify. Apify reserves the right to review such reports and may, at its sole discretion, remove the reported Community Actor or disable access to it without notice or explicit justification.

## 10. General

Apify reserves the right to update these Actor Terms periodically. The most current version, dated accordingly, will be posted at [https://docs.apify.com/legal/actor-terms-and-conditions](https://docs.apify.com/legal/actor-terms-and-conditions). Changes become effective upon posting unless a later effective date is specified. For material revisions, Apify may notify you via the Platform or email. Your continued use of the Actors after such updates constitutes your acceptance of the revised Actor Terms.