Compliance Scanner

If you are on this page, you've probably seen the Osano Privacy Compliance Scanner user agent in your logs and you are trying to decide whether to block it or not.

TL/DR; Don't block the Osano Privacy Compliance Scanner.

The Osano Privacy Compliance Scanner/1.1 (+http://www.osano.com/bot) user agent shows up in your logs when Osano  is evaluating compliance details for your website. Osano makes data privacy compliance software and this scanner helps to faciliate faster compliance for businesses.

If you see these scans, it is likely that your company is a customer of Osano and these scans have been triggered intentionally by using the Osano SaaS product. However even if you are not a customer of Osano, it is a good idea to ensure that the Osano Privacy Compliance Scanner/1.1 is not blocked by your CDN provider so that we can properly analyze your compliance posture for third parties who may have a requirement to monitor your compliance.

The Osano Privacy Compliance Scanner is lightweight and respectful, it does not visit often and it is judicious in it's use of bandwidth, we all want to be great citizens of the Internet, hopefully we're doing a good job. If not, please reach out and let us know how we can improve.