Terms of Use and Claim Boundaries

These Terms govern access to and use of the public Counter Threat Labs™ website and its public content. “Counter Threat Labs,” “CTL,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to the legal owner and operator identified below.

Use of this public website does not create a client relationship, advisory relationship, fiduciary relationship, confidential relationship, agency relationship, partnership, or other professional engagement with CTL. A CTL engagement exists only through a separate written agreement executed by authorized parties.

Where a separate written CTL agreement applies, that agreement controls over these Terms with respect to the subject matter of the engagement.

This website provides general commercial information concerning CTL capabilities, operating boundaries, and services.

Public website content is not legal, security, cybersecurity, compliance, financial, investment, engineering, investigative, operational, or other professional advice for any particular organization, system, person, event, or condition.

Website content is not a deployment approval, control certification, incident determination, attribution, finding of liability, authorization to act, or substitute for client-specific review.

CTL makes no representation that public website content is complete, current, sufficient for a particular purpose, or appropriate for reliance in a high-stakes decision.

CTL services may be designed to improve evidence discipline, defensive control, exposure reduction, decision continuity, resilience, intelligence structure, and other defined operating conditions.

No public statement constitutes a guarantee of threat prediction, breach prevention, attribution, compliance sufficiency, risk elimination, uninterrupted operations, recovery time, specific financial result, specific security result, or other outcome.

CTL operates only within authorized scope.

CTL does not authorize or provide unauthorized intrusion, malware deployment, unlawful persistence, evasion, access-control bypass, offensive cyber operations, or other activity outside applicable authority.

The client remains responsible for establishing and maintaining its own legal authority, access authority, compliance obligations, engineering accountability, executive judgment, operational decisions, and use of CTL deliverables.

Nothing on this website independently grants authority to access, test, monitor, alter, investigate, interfere with, or act against any person, system, network, account, organization, or infrastructure.

Submitting a form, sending an email, requesting information, participating in an introductory discussion, or providing unsolicited information does not create an engagement or obligation for CTL to act.

Do not submit credentials, privileged material, regulated information, sensitive security details, personal records, controlled data, client secrets, incident evidence, or other sensitive material through a public website channel unless CTL has expressly designated that channel for the material.

Unsolicited information submitted before an engagement and outside an approved secure channel should not be assumed confidential merely because it was sent to CTL.

Where CTL accepts an engagement, scope, authority, access, deliverables, confidentiality, information handling, dependencies, evidence requirements, acceptance criteria, completion standards, reliance boundaries, and other obligations are governed by the applicable written agreement.

No public capability description expands a signed engagement scope.

Except for identified third-party material, the original text, graphics, visual expression, marks, naming architecture, selection, coordination, arrangement, portfolio presentation, service descriptions, and other protectable expression on this website are owned by or licensed to CTL.

Publication does not place CTL material in the public domain, transfer ownership, or grant rights beyond the limited permission expressly stated in these Terms.

Facts, ideas, systems, procedures, concepts, and methods receive only the protection available to them under applicable law. Nothing in these Terms asserts copyright ownership over material that copyright law does not protect.

Counter Threat Labs™, CTL identifying marks and presentation, and capability, product, system, service, research, publication-environment, and other designations displayed with the ™ symbol are claimed trademarks or service marks of CTL where applicable.

CTL’s claimed names include BLACK PARALLAX™, FRAM3WORX™, IRONVAULT™, PSYBER FUSION™, REDSPEAR™, FIELDGLASS™, CORE⁴ IRX™, FOCALSTORM™, COMMAND FORGE™, CENTAURUS™, EXECUTIVE MISSION SYSTEMS™, HUMAN SECURITY INTELLIGENCE™, HUMINT-ANALYTIC Fusion Discipline™ / HAFD™, COUNTER GRAY ZONE™, HARMCRAFT™, COUNTER HARMCRAFT™, REPAIRCRAFT™, THE GRAVITY WELL™, and Intelligence Placement Records™ / IPR™.

The ™ symbol states a claim of rights and does not represent federal registration unless expressly identified otherwise.

Access to this site does not grant permission to use a CTL name, mark, logo, designation, trade dress, or confusingly similar identifier.

Third-party names and marks remain the property of their respective owners. Reference to a third party does not imply sponsorship, endorsement, affiliation, or authorization unless expressly stated.

Subject to these Terms, CTL grants a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable permission to access and view the public website for legitimate evaluation of CTL and its services.

No other license is granted expressly, by implication, estoppel, exhaustion, or otherwise.

CTL may withdraw or restrict this permission where permitted by law.

Except where applicable law affirmatively permits conduct notwithstanding contractual restriction, you may not:

• copy, republish, distribute, sell, license, commercially exploit, publicly display, materially adapt, or create a competing or derivative commercial offering from CTL website material without written permission;
• scrape, crawl, spider, harvest, mirror, bulk-download, systematically extract, or otherwise collect site content through automated or manual means for dataset construction, competitive replication, commercial intelligence, content aggregation, or systematic reuse;
• use CTL material to train, fine-tune, distill, benchmark, evaluate, ground, augment, retrieve for, or construct data for an artificial-intelligence, machine-learning, language-model, agentic, embedding, vector, synthetic-data, or competing analytical system without prior written authorization;
• use CTL material to reconstruct, infer, reproduce, simulate, benchmark, or approximate non-public CTL methodologies, operating structures, decision systems, templates, internal controls, analytical machinery, or proprietary implementation architecture;
• probe, scan, test, enumerate, stress, load-test, exploit, attack, circumvent, bypass, interfere with, or attempt to discover vulnerabilities in CTL systems, hosting, applications, forms, infrastructure, access controls, or security mechanisms without express prior written authorization defining the testing scope;
• attempt to gain unauthorized access to non-public content, accounts, systems, endpoints, administrative functions, infrastructure, files, configuration, metadata, credentials, or technical resources;
• evade robots directives, technical restrictions, access limits, blocking measures, or other controls intended to regulate automated or abusive access;
• remove or alter copyright, trademark, source, attribution, confidentiality, or other proprietary notices;
• use CTL names or marks in a domain name, product name, service name, advertising identifier, metadata, source identifier, social account, or other manner likely to imply CTL affiliation, sponsorship, authorization, or origin;
• impersonate CTL, misrepresent the origin of CTL material, create false endorsement or affiliation, or present altered CTL material as authentic CTL output;
• use the site or its content for unlawful conduct or to violate the rights of CTL or another person.

Ordinary indexing by a general-purpose public search engine may occur to the extent permitted by CTL's published technical directives and applicable law. That indexing permission does not create a broader license for reuse, extraction, model training, competitive replication, or commercial exploitation.

Public availability of CTL systems does not constitute authorization for penetration testing, vulnerability scanning, credential testing, exploit testing, adversarial testing, enumeration, load testing, security-control bypass, or any other security assessment.

Security research concerning CTL infrastructure requires prior written authorization defining the permitted target, method, timing, and scope.

Nothing in this section limits rights that cannot lawfully be restricted.

Public descriptions identify selected capabilities, outcomes, boundaries, and commercial positioning.

They do not disclose, license, waive protection over, or authorize reconstruction of non-public methods, procedures, templates, analytical structures, operating systems, decision logic, implementation artifacts, confidential know-how, trade secrets, or other protected internal material.

Disclosure of a public capability name, category, output, principle, or selected result does not imply disclosure of the machinery used to produce it.

CAPABILITY DEPTH DOES NOT CREATE A DISCLOSURE OBLIGATION.

No synthetic, automated, machine-generated, or model-produced representation derived from CTL public material should be represented as an authentic CTL statement, finding, capability, deliverable, position, or authorization unless CTL expressly issued or approved it.

Transformation by an automated system does not remove CTL ownership or attribution interests that otherwise apply to the source material.

You assume responsibility for determining whether public information is appropriate for your purpose.

CTL has no duty arising solely from public website access to update a visitor, correct an inference made by a visitor, preserve a particular page indefinitely, notify a visitor of changed content, or maintain a particular public capability description.

Historical website material may no longer reflect current CTL capabilities, terms, technology, risk conditions, or engagement requirements.

The site may depend on or link to third-party hosting, communications, infrastructure, software, forms, or external resources.

CTL does not control and is not responsible for third-party services, content, security, availability, terms, or privacy practices merely because a service or link is accessible through the CTL website.

A link does not constitute endorsement unless expressly stated.

CTL may change, suspend, restrict, withdraw, replace, or discontinue all or part of the public website at any time, subject to applicable law.

CTL does not guarantee continuous site availability, preservation of any particular public page, compatibility with a particular device, or uninterrupted access.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE PUBLIC WEBSITE AND PUBLIC WEBSITE CONTENT ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.”

CTL DISCLAIMS WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, ARISING SOLELY FROM PUBLIC WEBSITE USE, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, AVAILABILITY, SECURITY, AND ERROR-FREE OPERATION, EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT SUCH A DISCLAIMER IS PROHIBITED BY LAW.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, CTL WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOST PROFITS, LOST REVENUE, LOST DATA, LOSS OF BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY, OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION ARISING SOLELY FROM ACCESS TO, USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE THE PUBLIC WEBSITE.

EXCEPT FOR LIABILITY THAT CANNOT LAWFULLY BE LIMITED, CTL'S AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING SOLELY FROM PUBLIC WEBSITE USE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF USD $100 OR THE AMOUNT, IF ANY, PAID SPECIFICALLY FOR ACCESS TO THE PUBLIC WEBSITE DURING THE TWELVE MONTHS PRECEDING THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM.

This limitation does not modify liability separately established in a written client agreement.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold CTL and its owners, personnel, contractors, and representatives harmless from third-party claims, liabilities, damages, judgments, costs, and reasonable legal fees arising from your unlawful use of the website, material breach of these Terms, infringement of another person's rights, or prohibited exploitation of CTL material.

CTL may suspend, block, restrict, or terminate access associated with suspected abuse, unauthorized automation, attempted circumvention, security interference, infringement, or material violation of these Terms.

Where available under applicable law, CTL may seek injunctive, equitable, monetary, or other relief for unauthorized use or interference.

No failure to enforce a provision on one occasion waives CTL's right to enforce it later.

No right or permission is granted except as expressly stated.

All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

Nothing in these Terms limits rights or remedies CTL may possess under copyright, trademark, trade-secret, contract, unfair-competition, computer-misuse, confidentiality, tort, or other applicable law.

Nothing in these Terms converts conduct into a statutory or criminal violation where the governing law does not do so.

CTL may revise these Terms prospectively.

Each published version should identify its effective date and version.

Material revisions do not silently erase the terms applicable to an earlier interaction.

Where affirmative assent is required, the version presented at the time of assent should be preserved with the corresponding transaction or submission record.

CTL should retain prior material versions for its own records.

If a provision is held invalid or unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum extent lawfully permitted, and the remaining provisions will remain in effect to the extent allowed by applicable law.

Failure or delay in exercising a right does not waive that right.

A visitor may not assign rights arising under these Terms without CTL's prior written consent. CTL may assign its rights and obligations in connection with a lawful transfer, restructuring, or succession of the website or business, subject to applicable law.

These Terms and the applicable Privacy Notice constitute the agreement concerning use of the public website, except where another written agreement expressly controls.

They do not amend a separately executed CTL engagement agreement.

Questions concerning these Terms, permissions, intellectual property, or authorized security research may be directed through the CTL contact form submission page.

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