Screenscraping and reverse engineering health based web tool

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Published on 2010-12-23T20:30:50Z Indexed on 2010/12/23 20:54 UTC
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Hi

There is a publicly available free tool which has been built to help people understand the impact of various risk factors on their health / life expectancy. I am interested in understanding the data that sits behind the tool. To get this out it would require putting in a range of different socio-demographic factors and analyzing the resulting outputs. This would need to be done across many thousand different individual profiles. The tool was probably built on some standard BI platorm. I have no interest in how the tool was built but do want to get to the data within it.

The site has a Terms of Use Agreement which includes:

Not copying, distribute, adapt, create derivative works of, translate, or otherwise modify the said tool Not decompile, disassemble, reverse assemble, or otherwise reverse engineer the tool. The said institution retains all rights, title and interest in and to the Tool, and any and all modifications thereof, including all copyright, copyright registrations, trade secrets, trademarks, goodwill and confidential and proprietary information related thereto.

Would i be in effect breaking the law if i were to point a screen scraping tool which downloaded the data that sits behind the tool in question??

Any advice welcomed?

THANKS

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