Terms & Conditions

Introduction
These terms and conditions shall govern your use of our website. If you register with our website, submit any material to our website or use any of our website services, we will ask you to expressly agree to these terms and conditions. Our website uses cookies; by using our website or agreeing to these terms and conditions, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of our privacy and cookies policy.

Copyright notice
Copyright (c) 2013-2022 Cybershield Security, LLC. Subject to the express provisions of these terms and conditions: we, together with our licensors, own and control all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website; and all the copyright and other intellectual property rights in our website and the material on our website are reserved. Licence to use website
You may: view pages from our website in a web browser; download pages from our website for caching in a web browser; print pages from our website; stream audio and video files from our website; and use our website services by means of a web browser, subject to the other provisions of these terms and conditions.

Except as expressly permitted by Section 3.1 or the other provisions of these terms and conditions, you must not download any material from our website or save any such material to your computer. You may only use our website for your own personal and business purposes, and you must not use our website for any other purposes. Except as expressly permitted by these terms and conditions, you must not edit or otherwise modify any material on our website. Unless you own or control the relevant rights in the material, you must not: republish material from our website (including republication on another website); sell, rent or sub-license material from our website; show any material from our website in public; exploit material from our website for a commercial purpose; or redistribute material from our website. (a) Notwithstanding Section 3.5, you may redistribute our newsletter in print and electronic form to any person. (b) Notwithstanding Section 4.5, if you are a ‘Group Leader’ of one of our training programmes you may distribute ‘how to login’ details and all related information to people that you expressly wish to become course participants or users of our products or services. This is solely to be carried out for the purposes of individuals becoming participants and for them to be able to complete their course(s) or use any of our products or services. We reserve the right to restrict access to areas of our website, or indeed our whole website, at our discretion; you must not circumvent or bypass, or attempt to circumvent or bypass, any access restriction measures on our website.

Acceptable Use
You must not: use our website in any way or take any action that causes, or may cause, damage to the website or impairment of the performance, availability or accessibility of the website; use our website in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity; use our website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish or distribute any material which consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit or other malicious computer software; conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities (including without limitation scraping, data mining, data extraction and data harvesting) on or in relation to our website without our express written consent; access or otherwise interact with our website using any robot, spider or other automated means, except for the purpose of search engine indexing; violate the directives set out in the robots.txt file for our website; or use data collected from our website for any direct marketing activity (including without limitation email marketing, SMS marketing, telemarketing and direct mailing). You must not use data collected from our website to contact individuals, companies or other persons or entities. You must ensure that all the information you supply to us through our website, or in relation to our website, is true, accurate, current, complete and non-misleading.

Registration and Accounts
You may register for an account with our website by completing and submitting the account registration form on our website, and clicking on the verification link in the email that the website will send to you. You must not allow any other person to use your account to access the website. You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any unauthorised use of your account. You must not use any other person’s account to access the website, unless you have that person’s express permission to do so.

User Login Details
If you register for an account with our website, you will be asked to create a user ID (username) and password. Also you will be required to provide a contact e-mail address. Your user ID must not be liable to mislead and must comply with the content rules set out in Section 9; you must not use your account or user ID for or in connection with the impersonation of any person. You must keep your password confidential. You must notify us in writing immediately if you become aware of any disclosure of your password. You are responsible for any activity on our website arising out of any failure to keep your password confidential, and may be held liable for any losses arising out of such a failure.

Cancellation and Suspension of Account
We may: suspend your account; cancel your account; and/or edit your account details, at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation. (a) You may cancel any paid subscriptions on our website using your account control panel on the website. (b) You may cancel your account on our website by requesting us to do so by email or by using a contact form on our website.

Your Content: Licence
In these terms and conditions, “your content” means all works and materials (including without limitation text, graphics, images, audio material, video material, audio-visual material, scripts, software and files) that you submit to us or our website for storage or publication on, processing by, or transmission via, our website. You grant to us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to use, reproduce, store, adapt, publish, translate and distribute your content in any existing or future media. You grant to us the right to sub-license the rights licensed under Section 8.2. You grant to us the right to bring an action for infringement of the rights licensed under Section 8.2. You hereby waive all your moral rights in your content to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law; and you warrant and represent that all other moral rights in your content have been waived to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law. You may edit your content to the extent permitted using the editing functionality made available on our website. Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach any provision of these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may delete, unpublish or edit any or all of your content.

Your Content: Rules
You warrant and represent that your content will comply with these terms and conditions. Your content must not be illegal or unlawful, must not infringe any person’s legal rights, and must not be capable of giving rise to legal action against any person (in each case in any jurisdiction and under any applicable law). Your content, and the use of your content by us in accordance with these terms and conditions, must not: be libellous or maliciously false; be obscene or indecent; infringe any copyright, moral right, database right, trade mark right, design right, right in passing off, or other intellectual property right; infringe any right of confidence, right of privacy or right under data protection legislation; constitute negligent advice or contain any negligent statement; constitute an incitement to commit a crime, instructions for the commission of a crime or the promotion of criminal activity; be in contempt of any court, or in breach of any court order; be in breach of racial or religious hatred or discrimination legislation; be blasphemous; be in breach of official secrets legislation; be in breach of any contractual obligation owed to any person; be untrue, false, inaccurate or misleading; consist of or contain any instructions, advice or other information which may be acted upon and could, if acted upon, cause illness, injury or death, or any other loss or damage; constitute spam; be offensive, deceptive, fraudulent, threatening, abusive, harassing, anti-social, menacing, hateful, discriminatory or inflammatory; or cause annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to any person.

Limited Warranties
We do not warrant or represent: the completeness or accuracy of the information published on our website; that the material on the website is up to date; or that the website or any service on the website will remain available. We reserve the right to discontinue or alter any or all of our website services, and to stop publishing our website, at any time in our sole discretion without notice or explanation; and save to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions, you will not be entitled to any compensation or other payment upon the discontinuance or alteration of any website services, or if we stop publishing the website. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law and subject to Section 11.1, we exclude all representations and warranties relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, our website and the use of our website. Limitations and exclusions of liability

Nothing in these terms and conditions will:
limit or exclude any liability for death or personal injury resulting from negligence; limit or exclude any liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; limit any liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or exclude any liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law. The limitations and exclusions of liability set out in this Section 11 and elsewhere in these terms and conditions: are subject to Section 11.1; and govern all liabilities arising under these terms and conditions or relating to the subject matter of these terms and conditions, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort (including negligence) and for breach of statutory duty, except to the extent expressly provided otherwise in these terms and conditions. To the extent that our website and the information and services on our website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature. We will not be liable to you in respect of any losses arising out of any event or events beyond our reasonable control. We will not be liable to you in respect of any business losses, including (without limitation) loss of or damage to profits, income, revenue, use, production, anticipated savings, business, contracts, commercial opportunities or goodwill. We will not be liable to you in respect of any loss or corruption of any data, database or software. We will not be liable to you in respect of any special, indirect or consequential loss or damage. You accept that we have an interest in limiting the personal liability of our officers and employees and, having regard to that interest, you acknowledge that we are a limited liability entity; you agree that you will not bring any claim personally against our officers or employees in respect of any losses you suffer in connection with the website or these terms and conditions (this will not, of course, limit or exclude the liability of the limited liability entity itself for the acts and omissions of our officers and employees). THE SITE AND ITS SUBDOMAINS AND ANY INFORMATION, CONTENT OR SERVICES MADE AVAILABLE ON OR THROUGH THE SITE AND ITS SUBDOMAINS ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND (EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR OTHERWISE), INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, EXCEPT INSOFAR AS ANY SUCH IMPLIED WARRANTIES MAY NOT BE DISCLAIMED UNDER APPLICABLE LAW. Zoom Technologies, LLC AND THE Zoom Technologies, LLC PARTICIPANTS (AS HERINAFTER DEFINED) DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SITE AND ITS SUBDOMAINS WILL OPERATE IN AN UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE MANNER, THAT THE SITE AND ITS SUBDOMAINS IS FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS, OR THAT THE COURSES OR CONTENT PROVIDED WILL MEET YOUR NEEDS OR EXPECTATIONS. Zoom Technologies, LLC AND THE Zoom Technologies, LLC PARTICIPANTS ALSO MAKE NO WARRANTY ABOUT THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, TIMELINESS, OR QUALITY OF THE SITE AND ITS SUBDOMAINS OR ANY COURSES OR CONTENT, OR THAT ANY PARTICULAR COURSES OR CONTENT WILL CONTINUE TO BE MADE AVAILABLE. “Zoom Technologies, LLC PARTICIPANTS” MEANS THE ENTITIES PROVIDING INFORMATION, CONTENT OR SERVICES FOR THE SITE, COURSE INSTRUCTORS AND THEIR STAFF.

USE OF THE SITE AND ITS SUBDOMAINS, AND THE CONTENT AND SERVICES OBTAINED FROM OR THROUGH THE SITE AND ITS SUBDOMAINS, IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. YOUR ACCESS TO OR DOWNLOAD OF INFORMATION, MATERIALS OR DATA THROUGH THE SITE AND ITS SUBDOMAINS OR ANY REFERENCE SITES IS AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK, AND YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR PROPERTY (INCLUDING YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM) OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OR USE OF SUCH MATERIAL OR DATA, UNLESS OTHERWISE EXPRESSLY PROVIDED FOR IN THE Zoom Technologies, LLC PRIVACY POLICY.

Breaches of these terms and conditions
Without prejudice to our other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, or if we reasonably suspect that you have breached these terms and conditions in any way, we may: send you one or more formal warnings; temporarily suspend your access to our website; permanently prohibit you from accessing our website; block computers using your IP address from accessing our website; contact any or all of your internet service providers and request that they block your access to our website; commence legal action against you, whether for breach of contract or otherwise; and/or suspend or delete your account on our website. Where we suspend or prohibit or block your access to our website or a part of our website, you must not take any action to circumvent such suspension or prohibition or blocking (including without limitation creating and/or using a different account).

Variation
We may revise these terms and conditions from time to time. The revised terms and conditions shall apply to the use of our website from the date of publication of the revised terms and conditions on the website, and you hereby waive any right you may otherwise have to be notified of, or to consent to, revisions of these terms and conditions. If you have given your express agreement to these terms and conditions, we will ask for your express agreement to any revision of these terms and conditions; and if you do not give your express agreement to the revised terms and conditions within such period as we may specify, we will disable or delete your account on the website, and you must stop using the website.

Assignment
You hereby agree that we may assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with our rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions. You may not without our prior written consent assign, transfer, sub-contract or otherwise deal with any of your rights and/or obligations under these terms and conditions.

Severability
If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision of these terms and conditions would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

Links to Other Sites
The Site may include hyperlinks to sites maintained or controlled by others. Zoom Technologies, LLC and the Zoom Technologies, LLC Participants are not responsible for and do not routinely screen, approve, review or endorse the contents of or use of any of the products or services that may be offered at these sites. If you decide to access linked third-party websites, you do so at your own risk. Third party rights A contract under these terms and conditions is for our benefit and your benefit, and is not intended to benefit or be enforceable by any third party. The exercise of the parties’ rights under a contract under these terms and conditions is not subject to the consent of any third party. Termination Rights; Discontinuation of Courses and Content You agree that Zoom Technologies, LLC, in its sole discretion, may terminate your use of the Site or your participation in it, for any reason or no reason, upon notice to you. It is Zoom Technologies, LLC’s policy to terminate in appropriate circumstances the accounts of users of the Site who are repeat copyright infringers. Zoom Technologies, LLC and the Zoom Technologies, LLC Participants reserve the right at any time in their sole discretion to cancel, delay, reschedule or alter the format of any course offered through Zoom Technologies, LLC, or to cease providing any part or all of the Site content or related services, and you agree that neither Zoom Technologies, LLC nor any of the Zoom Technologies, LLC Participants will have any liability to you for such an action. If you no longer desire to participate in the Site, you may terminate your participation at any time. The rights granted to you hereunder will terminate upon any termination of your right to use the Site, but the other provisions of these TOS will survive any such termination.

Confidentiality
In no event shall Cybershield Security be liable to anyone for special, incidental, collateral or consequential damages arising out of the use of this information. This document contains information, which is confidential and proprietary to Cybershield Security and your company. Extreme care should be exercised before distributing copies of this document, or the extracted contents of this document. Cybershield Security is authorizing our point of contact at your company, to view and disseminate this document as he/she sees fit in accordance with your company's data handling policy and procedures. This document should be marked “CONFIDENTIAL” and therefore we suggest that this document be disseminated on a “need to know” basis. Address questions regarding the proper and legitimate use of this document to:

Cybershield Security, LLC
14605 Elm St. #2033
Upper Marlboro, MD 20773
Attention: Chief Information Security Officer

Disclaimer
The information presented in this document is provided as is and without warranty. Vulnerability assessments are a “point in time” analysis and as such it is possible that something in the environment could have changed since the tests reflected in this report were run. Also, it is possible that new vulnerabilities may have been discovered since the tests were run. Firms may choose to develop or use their own checklist, borrow sections from this checklist to include in their own checklist, or use a different resource. Use of software does not create a "safe harbor" with respect to FINRA, PCI and NACHA rules, federal or state securities laws, or other applicable federal or state regulatory requirements. For this reason, our reports should be considered a guide, not a 100% representation of the risk threatening your systems, networks and applications.

No Consequential Damages
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law, the Parties shall not assert, and hereby waive, any claim or any such damages, whether or not accrued and whether or not known or suspected to exist in its favor, against any other Party and its respective affiliates, members, members’ affiliates, officers, directors, partners, trustees, employees, attorneys and agents on any theory of liability, for special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages) (whether or not the claim therefor is based on Contract, tort or duty imposed by any applicable legal requirement) arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of, this Agreement or of any other agreement between them with respect to the Transactions.