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Who these terms apply to
These terms apply to every visitor, prospect, client, and organization using the platform. If you are using Faustshield on behalf of a company, you confirm that you have authority to bind that company to these terms.
Effective March 13, 2026
Terms of Service
These terms govern your use of the Faustshield website, intake form, and any manual security research or audit engagement requested through the platform. By using the site or submitting an audit request, you agree to the terms below.
Important
Faustshield performs authorized security work only. You must have the legal right to request testing of any target, environment, domain, application, or infrastructure you submit.
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What the platform does
The platform is used to collect audit requests, scope information, contact details, and communication preferences for researcher-led security reviews. Submitting a request does not automatically create a paid engagement, guarantee acceptance, or begin testing.
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Service scope
Faustshield offers manual security research, application security review, vulnerability validation, and remediation support. Exact deliverables, timing, targets, and pricing are set in the written scope, proposal, or engagement confirmation for each job.
Unless specifically agreed in writing, services do not include always-on monitoring, compliance certification, legal review, managed detection and response, or testing of third-party assets outside the approved scope.
We may refuse, pause, or limit work if the requested activity creates legal, operational, or safety risk, or if we cannot validate your authorization over the target.
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Client obligations
- You provide accurate scoping information.
- You own or control the assets submitted for testing.
- You maintain backups and change control.
- You review and act on findings in a timely manner.
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Authorization and acceptable use
You may not use the platform to request testing of systems you do not own, administer, or have written permission to assess. You may not use Faustshield to facilitate harassment, extortion, sabotage, unauthorized intrusion, or unlawful surveillance.
We reserve the right to suspend or reject requests that appear fraudulent, abusive, deceptive, or inconsistent with responsible security practice.
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Fees, payment, and refunds
Pricing is governed by the engagement terms presented to you before work starts. Invoices are due according to the payment terms shown on the proposal or invoice.
Unless required by law or otherwise agreed in writing, fees for completed work, work in progress, or reserved research time are non-refundable once an engagement has started.
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Confidentiality and reports
Each party will treat non-public information received from the other as confidential and use it only for the engagement, except where disclosure is required by law or necessary to prevent imminent harm.
Audit reports, findings, and remediation notes are provided for your internal security use. Unless otherwise agreed in writing, you may not remove context, alter findings materially, or publish our reports as endorsements.
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No guarantee of complete detection
Security review reduces risk but cannot eliminate it. We do not guarantee that every vulnerability, weakness, or exploit path will be found, or that a reviewed environment is fully secure after the engagement.
Any timelines shown on the website are target service expectations, not guarantees for every scope, incident, or edge case.
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Disclaimers and limitation of liability
The platform and services are provided on an "as available" basis. To the maximum extent permitted by law, Faustshield disclaims implied warranties, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Faustshield will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost revenue, lost data, business interruption, or reputational loss arising out of the platform or services.
To the extent liability cannot be excluded, Faustshield's total aggregate liability arising from the platform or an engagement will not exceed the amount you paid for the specific engagement giving rise to the claim in the 3 months before the event.
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Suspension, termination, and updates
We may suspend access, decline a request, or terminate an engagement if these terms are breached, required information is missing, payment is overdue, or continuing would create unacceptable risk.
We may update these terms from time to time by posting a revised version on this page. Continued use of the platform after an update means you accept the revised terms.
Questions
Need clarification before you submit scope?
Use the audit request form on the homepage and include any legal, operational, or scoping constraints in your notes before work begins.