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Terms of Service
These terms cover how you can use the Vanguard Bear website and the services we provide. By using the site or working with us, you’re agreeing to them.
Vanguard Bear (“we,” “us,” “our”) operates under Diamesso Group.
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Who can use our services
Our services are for businesses and the people who run them. By engaging us, you confirm you have the authority to enter into these terms on behalf of your business. If you don’t agree with these terms, the simplest thing is not to use the site or our services.
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What we do
Vanguard Bear provides cybersecurity consulting for small businesses: security reviews, hardening, configuration, and documentation. We’ll always tell you the scope of an engagement before you commit to it.
We may update, change, or retire a service over time. If a change affects work we’re already doing for you, we’ll talk to you about it first.
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Your responsibilities
For an engagement to go well, we need a few things from you:
We reserve the right to decline or end an engagement if we encounter misuse, dishonesty, or anything that puts us or others at risk.
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Fees and payment
The price and scope of each engagement are agreed in writing before work begins. Unless we’ve agreed otherwise, work begins once payment terms are confirmed.
If you ever feel an engagement didn’t deliver what was agreed, tell us. We’d rather make it right than hide behind a clause. Any refund is handled case by case, in good faith.
05.
What a security engagement can and can’t do
Our reviews, recommendations, and documentation are provided to help you improve your security posture. They reflect our honest assessment at a point in time. But, security is never finished, and no engagement makes a business immune to every threat.
We’re not responsible for incidents, breaches, or vulnerabilities that exist before, during, or after our work, except where caused by our own negligence. Where we hand over recommendations for you to implement, acting on them is your responsibility unless we’ve been contracted to implement them ourselves.
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Intellectual property
The content on this site, text, graphics, logos, and the Vanguard Bear name, belongs to us unless stated otherwise. Please don’t copy, modify, or redistribute it without permission.
Deliverables we create specifically for you as part of an engagement, your documentation, playbook, and reports, are yours to keep and use within your business once the engagement is paid in full.
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Third-party links and tools
Our site and our work may reference or rely on third-party services, Google Workspace, Cloudflare, and others. We’re not responsible for the content, practices, or availability of those third parties, and your use of them is subject to their own terms.
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No warranties
We provide the website and our services “as is,” without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied. That includes implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. We do our work carefully and honestly, but we can’t promise a specific outcome or guarantee absolute security.
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Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Vanguard Bear is not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use of the site or our services. Where we are found liable, our total liability is limited to the amount you paid us for the engagement in question.
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Indemnification
You agree to hold Vanguard Bear harmless from claims, damages, or expenses arising from your misuse of our services or deliverables, or your violation of these terms.
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Governing law
You agree to hold Vanguard Bear harmless from claims, damages, or expenses arising from your misuse of our services or deliverables, or your violation of these terms.
12.
Changes to these terms
We may update these terms from time to time. When we do, we’ll revise the effective date at the top of this page. Continuing to use the site or our services after a change means you accept the updated terms.
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Free resources and general information
Some of what we publish is free and public: the cheat sheet, the incident response playbook, our YouTube videos, blog posts, and the findings note from a free audit. This material is for general guidance. It’s a starting point, not a substitute for a full engagement, and it’s provided “as is” without warranty.
Acting on free resources or audit findings is your decision and your responsibility. Because we haven’t reviewed your full environment or implemented anything ourselves, we’re not liable for outcomes that follow from you applying, or not applying, that free guidance.
Mentioning a specific company, product, or tool in our content isn’t an endorsement unless we say so explicitly. No security measure is ever completely effective, and nothing we publish guarantees protection against every threat.
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Contact
Questions about this policy or your data? Reach us at:
