Hacker Buddy: Terms of service

1. Acceptance of terms

By accessing or using Hacker Buddy and its related services, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service ("Terms"). If you do not agree to these Terms, please do not use the service.

2. Description of service

Hacker Buddy is an AI-assisted security testing and monitoring service. It sends requests to the internet-facing systems on domains you have verified, analyses the responses to find security weaknesses, and sends you reports and alerts. To produce them, test results and related context are sent to our systems and forwarded to a third-party AI service.

3. Authorisation to test

You may only add domains and systems that you own or are authorised to have tested, and we require proof that you control a domain before testing it. By adding a domain, you authorise us to test it and you confirm that doing so does not breach a contract, your hosting provider's terms, or anyone else's rights. Where your hosting provider requires notice of security testing, you are responsible for giving it.

4. Acceptable use

Hacker Buddy exists to help you find and fix weaknesses in your own systems. You agree not to use it, or anything it reports, to gain unauthorised access to systems, to develop malware, or to attack systems that you do not own or have permission to test. You agree to use Hacker Buddy for lawful purposes only.

5. Privacy and data usage

How we handle your information and what the tests find is described in our Privacy Policy, which forms part of these Terms.

6. Your account

You are responsible for keeping access to your account confidential and for all activity that occurs under it. Your account is for your own use and may not be shared or resold. Tell us promptly if you believe someone else has gained access to it.

7. Fair use

Plans include continuous testing for normal use. To keep the service reliable for everyone, we may limit how often tests run and how much can be tested within a given period. These limits are not expected to affect regular use and may change over time. Free trials have lower limits than paid subscriptions. We may throttle or suspend accounts that violate these Terms.

8. Subscriptions and refunds

Subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. Purchases are non-refundable once a free trial has ended. Please read the full Refund Policy for details.

9. Intellectual property

All rights, title, and interest in and to Hacker Buddy and its components, including all intellectual property rights, are and will remain the property of the operator of Hacker Buddy.

10. Effects of testing

Tests are designed to be non-destructive, but they are real requests to live systems. They may appear in your logs, trigger your own monitoring, or, in rare cases, affect how your systems behave. You accept this when you add a domain.

11. No guarantee of security

Reports and alerts are generated with AI and may be incomplete or wrong. Hacker Buddy can miss vulnerabilities, can report problems that are not real, and alerts can be delayed or fail to arrive. The service is not a security audit, a penetration test, or a certification, and it does not guarantee that your systems are secure. You remain responsible for the security of what you run.

12. Disclaimer of warranties

Hacker Buddy is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, either express or implied.

13. Limitation of liability

To the extent permitted by law, the operator of Hacker Buddy shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages resulting from the use of, or inability to use, the service, including any security incident affecting a system that was tested and any effect of testing on it.

14. Changes to these terms

We may modify these Terms at any time. Your continued use of Hacker Buddy after such changes constitutes your acceptance of the new Terms.

15. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the country in which the operator of Hacker Buddy is established, without regard to its conflict of law provisions.

Contact

For any questions about these Terms, please contact us at hi@hackerbuddy.example.