Terms of Service and Platform Use

1.1. These Terms of Service (ToS) (together with the documents referred to in it) outline the terms on which you may make use of our training environment, accessed via our VPN (213.32.226.198), all machines are accessible once connected to the VPN and any of our applications, whether as a guest or a registered user. Use of our Services includes accessing, browsing, downloading or registering to use our sites.

1.2. Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use our Services, as these will apply to your use of our Services. We recommend that you print a copy of this document for future reference. By using our Services, you confirm that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to comply with them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, you must not use our Services.

1.3. WE PROVIDE THE SERVICES SOLELY ON THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT AND ON THE CONDITION THAT YOU ACCEPT AND COMPLY WITH THEM. BY CONNECTING TO THE VPN, YOU; (A) ACCEPT THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE THAT YOU ARE LEGALLY BOUND BY ITS TERMS; AND (B) REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT: (I) YOU ARE OF LEGAL AGE TO ENTER INTO A BINDING AGREEMENT; AND (II) IF THE CUSTOMER IS A CORPORATION, GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATION, OR OTHER LEGAL ENTITY, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT, POWER, AND AUTHORITY TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT ON BEHALF OF THAT CUSTOMER AND BIND CUSTOMER TO ITS TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT, WE WILL NOT AND DO NOT LICENSE THE SOFTWARE TO YOU, AND YOU MUST NOT ACCESS THE SERVICES.

1.4. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY IN THIS AGREEMENT OR YOUR OR OUR ACCEPTANCE OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT, NO LICENSE IS GRANTED (WHETHER EXPRESSLY, BY IMPLICATION, OR OTHERWISE) UNDER THIS AGREEMENT, AND THIS AGREEMENT EXPRESSLY EXCLUDES ANY RIGHT, CONCERNING ANY SERVICE OR ACCESS THAT YOU DID NOT ACQUIRE LAWFULLY OR THAT IS NOT A LEGITIMATE OR AUTHORISED ACCESS TO OUR SERVICE.

2. Grant of licence

2.1. Subject to the terms of this ToS and your strict compliance with all terms and conditions in the ToS, we grant you and your Affiliates a non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, limited and revocable license to use the Services and the Content (as defined in clause 3.1) within the platform for the term of this ToS subject to the continued due payment of the charges (as set out in the Reseller Terms) by Reseller and any limits on the number of users as set out in the Reseller Terms.

2.2. You shall be responsible for the acts and omissions of your directors, employees, contractors, sub-contractors or agents (“Employees”) with respect to their use of the Services and you remain liable throughout the term of this ToS for the acts and omissions of your Employees.

2.3. This ToS does not entitle you to Services such as implementation training or training in how to use our Services.

3. Ownership of the Service and Content

3.1. All right, title, interest and ownership rights and any copyright, design right, database right, patents and any rights to inventions, know-how, trade and business names, trade secrets and trademarks (whether registered or unregistered) and any applications therefore and other intellectual property rights (together “Intellectual Property Rights”) in the Service and the materials and Content within, including but not limited to all musical samples, text, software, scripts, code, designs, graphics, photos, sounds, music, videos, applications, interactive features and all other Content (“Content”) belong to us and/or our licensors. All rights are asserted and reserved, save for those granted under this ToS.

3.2. You acknowledge and agree that the Services and Content are provided under license, and not sold, to you. We reserve and shall retain our entire right, title, and interest in and to the Services and all Intellectual Property Rights arising out of or relating to the Services, except as expressly granted to you in this Agreement.

3.3. You shall use commercially reasonable efforts to safeguard all Services and Content (including all copies thereof) from infringement, misappropriation, theft, misuse, or unauthorised access. You shall promptly notify us if you become aware of any infringement of our Intellectual Property Rights in the Services or Content and fully cooperate with us in any legal action taken by us to enforce our Intellectual Property Rights.

3.4. The Service and Content are protected by copyright law, international copyright treaties and conventions and other laws. The Service or Content may contain licensed materials, and our licensors may act to protect their interests in the event of any breach of this ToS.

4. Online Service

4.1. We may, but shall not be obliged to, provide and maintain certain online functionality, online network play connectivity and interactivity, and other online features relating to the Service (“Online Service”) subject to the terms and conditions of this ToS.

4.2. We will grant you access to our Services upon receipt of payment of the Charges and subject to your compliance with the ToS and the terms and conditions are shown on our website from time to time including, but not limited to, privacy policy, acceptable use and website terms of use policies.

4.3. We do not warrant that the operation of the Online Service will be uninterrupted or error-free or that any error or interruption can or will be corrected.

5. Service desk and support

5.1. You may also contact us by emailing: [email protected] setting out details of your query, and a member of our team will respond to you.

6. Intellectual property

6.1. We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in and on our Services and in the material published on or in them. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.

6.2. You may print off one copy and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our Services for your personal use, and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to Content posted on our Services. You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

6.3. Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of Content on our Services must always be acknowledged. You must not use any part of the Content on our Services for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors. If you print off, copy or download any part of our Services in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our Services will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

7. Restrictions

7.1. You are not entitled to and shall not:

7.1.1. sell, distribute, reproduce, transfer, publicly display, translate, modify, adapt, create derivative works from, deconstruct, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble, rent, lease, loan, sub-license or otherwise deal in copies or reproductions of the Services to other parties in any way except as permitted by this ToS;

7.1.2. remove, delete, obscure, disable, modify, add to, tamper with, or circumvent any program code or data, copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices, labels or copy protection software contained on or within the Services or Content;

7.1.3. exploit the Services, Content, or any of its parts thereof for any commercial purpose including, but not limited to, using the Services for any illegal or immoral purposes;

7.1.4. export or re-export the Services or any copy or adaptation in violation of any applicable laws or regulations;

7.1.5. create data or executable programs which mimic data or functionality in the Service;

7.1.6. remove, disable or circumvent any copy protection software contained on or within the Services or Content; or

7.1.7. use the Services or Content for any illegal or immoral purposes.

7.2. You agree not to use any skills developed or inferred through our platform for malicious or illegal purposes.

7.3. You agree not to perform any security testing of the platform itself. If you identify or become aware of a bug or vulnerability in the platform, you agree to report it immediately to [email protected]. By following this process, you may, at Samurai Digital Security’s discretion, be rewarded for finding the vulnerability.

7.4. You agree not to publish or share any techniques, answers on how to complete labs, information, the intellectual property contained in the platform.

8. Risks from using the platform including Viruses

8.1. We do not guarantee that our Services will be secure or free from bugs or viruses. You are responsible for configuring your information technology, computer programmes and platform in order to access our Services. You should use your own virus protection software.

8.2. You must not misuse our Services by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our Services, the server on which our sites is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our Services. You must not attack our Services via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of-service attack. You must not attack our Services by social engineering. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990.

8.3. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities, and we will cooperate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our Services will cease immediately.

8.4 As a result of using our platform and services we cannot accept responsibility for;

  • Loss of profits, sales, business, or revenue;
  • Business interruption;
  • Loss of data;
  • Loss of anticipated savings;
  • Loss of business opportunity, goodwill or reputation; or
  • Any indirect or consequential loss or damage.

8.5 By using our platform and services, you acknowledge the risk that is connecting to an intentionally vulnerable environment designed for and used by hackers. While some protections have been put in place to prevent users from attacking each other, and it is against the terms of use to do so, we cannot guarantee that the users of the platform won’t realise any losses (defined in section 8.4). If you suspect a user is using the platform in a way which is against the terms of service contact [email protected] for us to investigate.

9. Prohibited uses

9.1. You may use our Services only for lawful purposes. You may not use our Services:

  • In any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international law or regulation.
  • In any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect.
  • For the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way.
  • To send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material which does not comply with our content standards.
  • To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).
  • To knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to affect the operation of any computer software or hardware adversely.

9.2. You also agree:

  • Not to attack other users of the platform or the platform itself
  • Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our sites in contravention of the provisions of these terms of use.
  • Not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:
    • any part of our Services;
    • any equipment or network on which our platform is operated from; 
    • any software used in the provision of our Services; or 
    • any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.

10. Suspension and termination

10.1. We will determine, at our discretion, whether there has been a breach of this Acceptable Use Policy through your use of our Services. When a breach of this policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate. Failure to comply with this Acceptable Use Policy constitutes a material breach of these terms of use upon which you are permitted to use our Services, and may result in our taking all or any of the following actions:

  • Immediate, temporary or permanent withdrawal of your right to use our Services.
  • Immediate, temporary or permanent removal of any posting or material uploaded by you to our Services.
  • Issue of a warning to you.
  • Legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs on an indemnity basis (including, but not limited to, reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach.
  • Further legal action against you.
  • Disclosure of such information to law enforcement authorities as we reasonably feel is necessary.

10.2. WE EXCLUDE LIABILITY FOR ACTIONS TAKEN IN RESPONSE TO BREACHES OF THIS ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY. The responses described in this policy are not limited, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.

11. Complaints

We are passionate about developing your cyber capability. Our platform is designed to upskill individual users, and therefore we aim for all our users to love our product. If for any reason you are unhappy with our product, please let us know by emailing [email protected]. We will respond within two working days of receipt, explain what we will do and the target timescale to resolve your query.

12. Third-party links and resources in our Services

Where our Services contain links to other sites, apps and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites, apps or resources.