I. PALISCADE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE

The following Terms and Conditions apply when you view or use the website located at paliscade.com (the “Site”). Paliscade offers a platform and related services to businesses seeking to securely crowdsource vulnerability testing of their websites by allowing volunteer members of the public to identify and report software bugs. Researchers may be eligible for “bug bounties”, or awards if they meet the eligibility criteria. 

SITE VISITORS: Please review the following terms carefully. By accessing and interacting with the Site, you signify your agreement to these Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree to these Terms and Conditions, you may not access or use the Site.

NOTE TO BUSINESSES: For the terms and conditions applicable to your access to and use of the Paliscade Platform and Services, please refer to your Customer Agreement.

These Terms and Conditions include a release by you of all claims for damage against us that may arise out of your access to or use of this Site. By using this site, you agree to this release.

II. PRIVACY POLICY

Paliscade respects the privacy of its Site visitors. Please refer to Paliscade’s Privacy Policy which explains how we collect, use, and disclose information that pertains to your privacy. When you access or use the Site, you signify your agreement to this Privacy Policy.

III. ABOUT PALISCADE

Paliscade contracts with businesses and individuals who develop and produce one or more of the company’s products on Paliscade's platform. Through the  platform, they can access posted research projects, communicate with Paliscade, and test these products on customer-provided test environments. Paliscade then administers the payment of monetary awards to producers if use cases are deem to be relevant. Paliscade do use open-sourced projects subject to the developer's copy rights.

IV. RULES FOR SITE VISITOR CONDUCT

Your permission to access and interact with the Site is conditioned upon the Use Restrictions and the Conduct Restrictions.

USE RESTRICTIONS. You agree that you will not under any circumstances:

• send unsolicited bulk communications;
• register for multiple accounts;
• transmit any information that is abusive, threatening, obscene, defamatory, libelous, or racially, sexually, religiously, or otherwise objectionable and offensive;
• use the Site (or the Paliscade platform and service) for any unlawful purpose or for the promotion of illegal activities;
• attempt to, or harass, abuse or harm another person or group;
• use another user’s Paliscade's account without permission;
• provide false or inaccurate information when registering an account on Paliscade;
• interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper functioning of Paliscade’s Service;
• make any automated use of the system, or take any action that we deem to impose or to potentially impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on our servers or network infrastructure;
• bypass any robot exclusion headers or other measures we take to restrict access to the Service or use any software, technology, or device to scrape, spider, or crawl the Service or harvest or manipulate data;
• will not use the communication systems provided by or contacts made on Paliscade for any commercial solicitation purposes;
• will not publish or link to malicious content intended to damage or disrupt another user’s browser or computer.

POSTING AND CONDUCT RESTRICTIONS. The following rules pertain to User Content, defined as any communications, images, sounds, and all the material, data, and information that you upload or transmit through the Paliscade Service, or that other users upload or transmit, including without limitation any comments. By transmitting and submitting any User Content while using our Service, you agree, represent and warrant as follows:

• You will not transmit information that is false or inaccurate;
• You will not transmit content that is copyrighted or subject to third party proprietary rights, including privacy, publicity, trade secret, etc., unless you are the owner of such rights or have the appropriate permission from their rightful owner to specifically submit such content to Paliscade; and
• You hereby affirm we have the right to determine whether any of your Content transmissions are appropriate and comply with these Terms of Service, remove any and/or all of your communications, and terminate your account with or without prior notice.

ACCESS, DISCLOSURE, AND REMOVAL RIGHTS. You acknowledge and agree that Paliscade may access or disclose information about you, including the content of your communications, in order to:

• Comply with the law or respond to lawful requests or legal process;
• Respond to your requests;
• Protect the rights or property of Paliscade, or its customers, including the enforcement of these Terms and Conditions, our customer and researcher agreements, or other policies governing the use of our platform, Service, and Site;
• Act on a good faith belief that such access or disclosure is necessary to protect the personal safety of Paliscade’s employees, customers, or the public.

HOW YOU MAY USE OUR MATERIAL. You may use the Services, including the Sites, and any information, data, images, tools, results, content, applications and other material made available via the Services, including any such material that is owned by third parties (collectively, “Materials”) solely for your recreational, personal, non-commercial use, and otherwise in accordance with the Terms and the Agreement of contributor or an open-sourced project/ platform. You may not copy, reproduce, alter, modify, create derivative works from, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or publicly display any of the Material without the prior written consent of Paliscade.

V. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

We reserve the right, but are not obligated, to limit or deny access to the Site and to take other appropriate action if a user violates these Terms and Conditions or engages in any activity that violates the rights of any person or entity or which we deem unlawful, offensive, abusive, harmful or malicious. Unauthorized use may result in criminal and/or civil prosecution under federal, state and local law. If you become aware of misuse of our Service, please contact us using our form.

VII. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

You acknowledge and agree that we and our licensors retain ownership of all intellectual property rights of any kind related to the Site, including applicable copyrights, trademarks and other proprietary rights. Other product and company names that are mentioned on the Site may be trademarks of their respective owners. We reserve all rights that are not expressly granted to you in this Agreement.

VIII. DISCLAIMER; LIMITATION OF DAMAGES; RELEASE

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, SECURITY, ACCURACY AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WITHOUT LIMITING THE FOREGOING, PALISCADE MAKES NO WARRANTY OR REPRESENTATION THAT ACCESS TO OR OPERATION OF THE SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR FREE. YOU ASSUME FULL RESPONSIBILITY AND RISK OF LOSS RESULTING FROM YOUR DOWNLOADING AND/OR USE OF FILES, INFORMATION, CONTENT OR OTHER MATERIAL OBTAINED FROM THE SITE.

TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL PALISCADE, ITS AFFILIATES, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES OR ITS LICENSORS OR PARTNERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES, THAT RESULT FROM (A) THE USE, DISCLOSURE, OR DISPLAY OF YOUR INFORMATION OR CONTENT; (B) YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE; (C) THE SERVICE GENERALLY OR THE SOFTWARE OR SYSTEMS THAT MAKE THE PALISCADE SERVICES AVAILABLE; OR (D) ANY OTHER INTERACTIONS WITH PALISCADE OR ANY OTHER USER OF THE PALISCADE SERVICES, WHETHER BASED ON WARRANTY, CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE) OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, WHETHER OR NOT PALISCADE HAS BEEN INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE, AND EVEN IF A REMEDY SET FORTH HEREIN IS FOUND TO HAVE FAILED OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.

If you have a dispute with one or more users or a Business with who you chatted through our Service, you release us (and our officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures and employees) from claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes.

IX. INDEMNITY

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Paliscade, its parent company, officers, directors, employees and agents, from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs or debt, and expenses (including but not limited to reasonable attorney’s fees) arising from: (i) your use of and access to Paliscade; (ii) your violation of any term of these Terms of Service; (iii) your violation of any third party right, including without limitation any copyright, property, or privacy right; or (iv) any claim that any content submitted by you causes damage to a third party. This defense and indemnification obligation will survive these Terms and Conditions and your use of Paliscade.

X. MODIFICATION OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS

We can amend these Terms and Conditions at any time and will update these Terms and Conditions in the event of any such amendments. It is your sole responsibility to check the Site from time to time to view any such changes. If you continue to access or use the Site, you signify your agreement to our revisions to these Terms and Conditions.

XI. APPLICABLE LAWS; VENUE

These Terms and Conditions and your use of the Site are governed by the federal laws of the Australia and the laws of the Brisbane, Australia. By using this Site, you signify your consent to the jurisdiction of the state and/or federal courts located with Brisbane, Australia.

XII. SUGGESTIONS AND FEEDBACK

Paliscade welcomes your feedback and inquiries. If you have any comments or questions, please contact us through our web form.