generated: '2026-09-05'
method: searched
source: >-
  Searched every Colgate-Palmolive public host and the company's GitHub
  organization for documented API rate limits, quotas, throttling behaviour or
  429 semantics on 2026-09-05. No developer documentation of any kind exists.

limit_count: 0
headers: []
exhaustion_status: null
retry_after: false

note: >-
  An honest zero. There is no public Colgate-Palmolive API, therefore no
  published rate limits, no RateLimit-* or X-RateLimit-* response headers, and
  no documented 429 behaviour. Nothing was observed on a live response either,
  because there is no endpoint to observe. The only rate-limiting behaviour
  encountered anywhere on the company's surface is the Akamai edge policy in
  front of its marketing sites, which returns HTTP 403 "Access Denied" to
  non-browser clients and to browser-shaped clients that make requests too
  quickly. That is ordinary bot management on a consumer web property, not an
  API rate limit, and it is deliberately NOT recorded as one.

limits: []

evidence:
  - url: https://www.colgatepalmolive.com/openapi.json
    status: 403
    note: >-
      Akamai edge denial, not a rate-limit document. No OpenAPI is served on this
      or any other Colgate-Palmolive host.
  - url: https://api.colgatepalmolive.com/
    status: 0
    note: Does not resolve (NXDOMAIN) — no API host whose limits could be published.