Terms of Use

1. Introduction

This page tells you the terms on which you may use our website securityforum.org. Please read carefully before use.

By using the site, you accept the terms and agree to obey them. If you do not accept them, please do not use the site.

2. Who we are

www.securityforum.org is operated by the Information Security Forum Limited, a UK Limited company registered in England under company number 04822538.

Some important details about us:

Our registered address is:

Information Security Forum Limited

Elder House
St. George Business Park
207 Brooklands Road
Weybridge
Surrey
KT13 0TS
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)203 875 6868
Web: securityforum.org
Email: info@securityforum.org

Our VAT number is GB 606 0386 62.

3. Use of the site

You have permission for temporary use of the site, but we can withdraw or change our service at any time without telling you and without being legally responsible to you.

You must treat all identification codes, passwords and other security information as confidential. If we think you have failed to keep confidentiality, we are allowed to disable any security information (including your passwords and codes).

If you allow anyone else to use our site, you must make sure that they read these terms first, and that they follow them.

Only use the site as allowed by law and these terms. If you do not, we may suspend your usage, or stop it completely.

We frequently update the site and make changes to it, but we don’t have to do this, and material on the site may be out-of-date. No material on the site is intended to contain advice, and you should not rely on it. We exclude all legal responsibility and costs for reliance placed on the site by anyone.

We follow our Privacy Notice in handling information about you. You can read our Notice here.

By using the site, you agree to us handling this information and confirm that data you provide is accurate.

4. Intellectual Property Rights

We either own or license all intellectual property rights in the site (for example the copyright and any rights in the designs) and in any of the materials posted on it. These materials are protected by copyright.

You are allowed to print one copy and download extracts of any page on the site for your personal reference, but not for commercial use without a licence from us. You must not alter anything, or use any illustrations, video, audio or photographs separately from the text that goes with them.

If you breach these terms, you lose your right to use our site, and must destroy or return any copies you have made.

5 . Our legal responsibility to you

We do not guarantee the accuracy of material on our site. As far as legally possible, we exclude legal responsibility for the following:

Any loss to you arising from use of our site; and
Loss of income, profit, business, data, contracts, goodwill or savings.
We also exclude, as far as legally possible, all terms and warranties or promises implied by law or by statutes.
We don’t exclude legal responsibility for death or personal injury owing to our negligence, or legal responsibility for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for anything else where exclusion is not allowed by the law.

6. Uploading to our site

We do not permit or enable the uploading of content to our site.

7. Computer offences

If you do anything which is a criminal offence under a law called the Computer Misuse Act 1990, your right to use the site will end straightaway. We will report you to the relevant authorities and give them your identity.

Examples of computer misuse include introducing viruses, worms, Trojans and other technologically harmful or damaging material.

You must not try to get access to our site or server or any connected database or make any ‘attack’ on the site. We will not be legally responsible to you for any damage from viruses or other harmful material that you pick up via our site.

8. Links to our site

You are allowed to make a legal link to our website’s homepage from your website – subject to our approval. We can end this permission at any time. You must not suggest any endorsement by us or association with us unless we agree in writing.

9. Links from our site

Links from our site to other sites are only for information. We do not accept responsibility for other sites or any loss you suffer from using them.

10. Variation

We change these terms from time to time and you must check them for changes because they are binding on you.

11. Trademark

ISF and Information Security Forum, are our UK Registered trademarks.

12. Applicable law

The English courts have the only right to hear claims related to our site, and all disputes are governed by English law.

13. Contact us

Please email us at info@securityforum.org if you have any questions.