Terms of Use
These Terms of Use govern your access to and use of https://prodsecguild.com, including its pages, forms, downloads, and other content. The website is operated by The Product Security Guild LLC, trading as The Product Security Guild. In these Terms, “the Guild,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to that entity.
By accessing or using the website, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the website.
1. About this website
The website provides general information about the Guild, product security, our services, training, events, and related topics. The content is intended for business and professional audiences.
We may change, suspend, or remove any part of the website at any time. We do not guarantee that every page, feature, or item of content will remain available.
2. No professional advice
Website content is general information. It is not legal advice, regulatory advice, engineering advice for a particular product, a security assessment, a certification, or a substitute for advice based on your facts and obligations.
Security, safety, regulatory, and compliance decisions depend on the product, intended use, architecture, operating environment, jurisdiction, evidence, and current requirements. You remain responsible for evaluating those factors and obtaining qualified advice where needed.
3. No client relationship or confidentiality through website use
Using the website, submitting a form, sending an email, attending a public presentation, or receiving a response does not by itself create a client, advisory, fiduciary, or other professional relationship with the Guild.
An engagement begins only when the relevant parties sign a written agreement. Any proposal, statement of work, services agreement, nondisclosure agreement, data processing agreement, or other signed engagement document controls the work it covers and takes priority over these Terms if there is a conflict.
Do not submit confidential, proprietary, export-controlled, patient, health, security-sensitive, or other sensitive information through a general website form. We can arrange an appropriate channel after initial contact. Information sent before a confidentiality agreement is in place may not be treated as confidential unless applicable law requires otherwise.
4. No guarantee of regulatory or security outcomes
References to laws, regulations, standards, guidance, frameworks, certifications, approvals, clearances, conformity assessments, or regulator expectations are informational. They do not mean that the Guild is endorsed by, affiliated with, or acting on behalf of a regulator, standards body, test laboratory, certification body, notified body, or approval authority.
No website statement guarantees regulatory acceptance, certification, approval, clearance, a successful submission, the absence of vulnerabilities, the prevention of an incident, or any other outcome.
5. Intellectual property
The website and its content, including text, graphics, logos, icons, page designs, downloads, and original materials, are owned by or licensed to the Guild and are protected by intellectual-property laws.
Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access the website and use its publicly available content for your own lawful, internal business purposes.
Unless we give written permission or applicable law allows it, you may not:
- Copy, republish, distribute, sell, sublicense, or commercially exploit website content.
- Modify content or present it in a way that is misleading about its source, date, scope, or meaning.
- Remove copyright, trademark, attribution, or proprietary notices.
- Use our name, trademarks, logos, or visual identity in a way that suggests endorsement, affiliation, certification, or approval.
You may link to a public page if the link is lawful, accurate, and does not imply an association or endorsement that does not exist. We may ask you to remove a link that misrepresents the Guild or its content.
6. Acceptable use
You may not use the website to:
- Break the law or infringe another person's rights.
- Submit false, misleading, fraudulent, defamatory, abusive, or unlawful material.
- Impersonate another person or misrepresent your authority or affiliation.
- Send spam, automated solicitations, or excessive form submissions.
- Introduce malware, harmful code, or content intended to disrupt or damage a system.
- Attempt to gain unauthorized access to the website, accounts, systems, or data.
- Interfere with the website's availability, integrity, security, or normal operation.
- Evade access controls, rate limits, robot exclusions, or other protective measures.
- Scrape, harvest, or systematically extract website content or contact information for resale, profiling, or unsolicited marketing.
- Conduct vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, exploitation, or other security testing without prior written authorization.
Search engines may index public pages in accordance with our technical instructions.
7. Information you submit
You retain ownership of information you submit through the website. You give us permission to use, copy, transmit, store, and share that information as reasonably necessary to respond to you, operate the website, protect our business, comply with law, and consider or provide requested services.
You represent that you have the right and authority to submit the information and that doing so does not violate another person's rights, contractual restrictions, or legal obligations.
Our handling of personal information is described in our Privacy Policy.
8. Third-party services and links
The website may rely on or link to third-party websites, platforms, tools, documents, and services. We do not control third-party content, availability, security, accessibility, or privacy practices. A link or reference does not imply endorsement unless we say so expressly.
Your use of a third-party service may be governed by that provider's terms and privacy notice.
9. Disclaimers
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the website and its content are provided “as is” and “as available.” We disclaim all express and implied warranties relating to the website, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, timeliness, availability, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and noninfringement.
We do not warrant that the website will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, or free from harmful components. We do not warrant that content will remain current after its stated publication or review date.
Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty exclusions. In those jurisdictions, the exclusions apply only to the extent permitted by law.
10. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Guild and its owners, officers, personnel, contractors, and service providers will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, punitive, or consequential damages, or for loss of profits, revenue, business opportunity, goodwill, data, or use, arising from or related to the website or its content.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited. Any liability that cannot be excluded will be limited to the greatest extent permitted by applicable law.
11. Security reports
If you believe you have found a security vulnerability affecting the website or our systems, do not exploit it or access data that is not your own. Report it to admin@prodsecguild.com. Authorization for security research exists only to the extent expressly stated in a separate written authorization.
12. Suspension and termination
We may restrict or terminate access to the website if we reasonably believe a person has violated these Terms, created risk for the website or another person, or exposed us to legal or security harm.
Provisions that by their nature should continue after termination will survive, including provisions concerning intellectual property, disclaimers, limitations of liability, governing law, and disputes.
13. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms when the website, our practices, or applicable requirements change. The updated Terms will be posted on this page with a revised Last updated date. Changes apply from the stated effective date.
14. General provisions
If a provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver. These Terms do not create rights for any third party.
15. Contact us
Questions about these Terms may be sent to:
The Product Security Guild LLC, trading as The Product Security Guild
admin@prodsecguild.com
