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By accessing or using threatvectr.com (the “Service”), you confirm that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these Terms and by our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the Service. If you are using the Service on behalf of an organisation, you represent that you have the authority to bind that organisation to these Terms.

Threat Vectr publishes news, analysis, and commentary about cybersecurity, together with a weekly audio podcast and an optional email newsletter. The Service is provided for general informational purposes to a professional audience.

Threat Vectr is a news publication, not a security consultancy. Nothing on the Service constitutes professional security, legal, financial, or other advice, and it is not a substitute for guidance tailored to your specific situation. Before acting on anything you read here — applying a patch, responding to an incident, making a purchasing or compliance decision — you should verify it against the relevant vendor advisories, official sources, and your own qualified professionals. You rely on our content at your own risk.

We work to be accurate and to verify stories against their sources, but cybersecurity moves quickly and details can change after publication. The Service is provided in good faith on an “as is” and “as available” basis. We make no guarantee that any content is complete, current, or error-free. Where we discover a material error, we will correct it; if you spot one, please let us know.

The Service and its original content, design, branding, logos, and the “Threat Vectr” name are owned by us or our licensors and are protected by intellectual property laws. You may read, share, and link to our articles for personal, non-commercial use, and quote short excerpts with clear attribution and a link back to the original page.

You may not republish, reproduce, scrape, or redistribute substantial portions of our content, or use it to train machine-learning models, without our prior written permission. Third-party names, trademarks, advisories, and quoted material referenced in our reporting remain the property of their respective owners and are used for the purpose of news reporting and commentary.

When using the Service, you agree not to:

• break any applicable law or infringe anyone's rights;
• attempt to gain unauthorised access to the Service, its servers, or any connected systems, or probe, scan, or test their vulnerability without our written authorisation;
• interfere with or disrupt the Service — including through excessive automated requests, denial-of-service activity, or attempts to circumvent rate limits or security controls;
• scrape, harvest, or bulk-download content except as expressly permitted by our robots.txt and these Terms;
• introduce malware, or use the Service to transmit harmful or unlawful material.

Responsible security research into this site is welcome — please follow the coordinated disclosure process described in our security.txt.

If you send us a news tip, correction, pitch, or other message, you confirm it is yours to share and does not breach anyone's rights or confidentiality obligations. By submitting it, you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence to use, reproduce, and act on the information for our editorial purposes. We are under no obligation to publish, respond to, or keep confidential any unsolicited submission, though we will always try to protect the identity of sources who ask us to.

The Service contains links to third-party websites, advisories, and sources. We provide these for convenience and attribution; we do not control them, are not responsible for their content or practices, and a link does not imply our endorsement. Your use of any third-party site is governed by that site's own terms and privacy policy.

The Service may display advertising, including for products and services. Advertisements do not constitute an endorsement by us, and any dealings you have with an advertiser are solely between you and that advertiser. We are not responsible for the products, services, or claims of third-party advertisers.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Service is provided “as is” and “as available” without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, secure, or error-free. Nothing in these Terms excludes any guarantee, right, or remedy that cannot lawfully be excluded, including under the Australian Consumer Law.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Threat Vectr, the imicus group, and our people will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, data, goodwill, or business, arising out of or in connection with your use of (or inability to use) the Service or any reliance on its content — even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages. Where our liability cannot be excluded but can be limited, our total liability to you is limited to the amount you paid us to access the Service (which, for our free content, is nil).

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Threat Vectr and the imicus group from any claims, losses, liabilities, and reasonable expenses arising out of your misuse of the Service, your breach of these Terms, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.

These Terms are governed by the laws of Queensland, Australia, and you submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of that state and the Commonwealth of Australia. If any provision of these Terms is found to be unenforceable, the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect.

We may update these Terms from time to time. When we do, we will revise the “last updated” date above. Changes take effect when posted, and your continued use of the Service after that point means you accept the revised Terms. If you do not agree to a change, please stop using the Service.

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