Hunter Terms and Conditions

Once you sign up here as a Hunter, you agree to the following Terms and Conditions. By way of definition, Hunter is a security researcher, hacker, or anyone ready to hunt and resolve bugs and vulnerabilities in a company’s environment of technology.

Note: All the Terms used here as Capital are defined in the glossary section, which you can find by clicking here.

Nordic Defender PLATFORM

As long as you act in accordance with the Terms and Conditions here, you may use Nordic Defender Platform to participate in Programs and Submissions.

CODE OF CONDUCT

Since Nordic Defender firmly believes in business ethics and it is aimed both for Clients and Hunters’ benefits, we require all our Platform users to conform to professional and courteous conduct in Terms of their interaction with Nordic Defender and other Hunters. The Platform shall be used properly and we will have zero-tolerance policy to any activity that violates our code of conduct. In case of any misconduct, Nordic Defender reserves the right to terminate Hunters use of the Platform at its sole discretion. For more information click here.

SUBMISSIONS

As you provide any Submissions for the Clients on our Platform, you comply with our Program Policy. In case of any conflicts, Nordic Defender’s Vulnerability Disclosure Guidelines are supplanted by individual Program Policies. Further information about our Vulnerability Disclosure can be found here.

Hereinafter, you (as a Hunter) are bound to refrain from causing any infringement, misappropriation, or violation to a third party’s intellectual property rights, or rights of publicity or privacy, or violation of any applicable law or regulation, including export control laws.

GRANTING REWARDS

Rewards may be granted to a Hunter for their Submissions to a Client in case the Submissions follow the Client’s requirements in the Program Policy. Nordic Defender will Reward the Hunter on behalf of the Client in monetary form within 10 business days after the Client settles the Reward payments with Nordic Defender. (or in case of Client’s Reward prepayment, within 10 business days after the Client notifies Nordic Defender that the Hunter is granted a Reward). Nordic Defender denies any liability for delays in payments due to any possible contingencies.

Nordic Defender respects your confidentiality as you can prefer anonymity using a pseudonym. Nevertheless, in order to be able to have a Reward, we need to have your latest accurate and complete information including your address, TIN (tax identification number) (if any) as well as any other information that you will be notified of by our team in due course. In case you fail to provide this information, Nordic Defender will have the right to remit your Reward to a charity. Please bear in mind that Nordic Defender will not be liable to any tax payments on your part and that you are solely responsible for paying all taxes related to your Reward.

Nordic Defender will have no liabilities for any Program in any forms, including any omissions or errors in any Program Policy, or any damage or loss incurred as a result of your reliance on any Program Policy.

INDEPENDENT SIDES/TRANSACTIONS

By having you registered on our Platform, Nordic Defender is by no means liable to hire, have a contract with you or hold you as its representative. You are an independent third party linked with the Client through participating in Programs. In the Terms, it is not intended by any means to render you and Nordic Defender partners, joint ventures, or employee and employer. Nordic Defender and you are under no circumstances considered as employer and employee, which means you have no rights as an employee of Nordic Defender.

Please note that Clients are third parties who are linked with you through Services in the Program and that they are not affiliates, contractors, employees, or representatives of Nordic Defender. In the event you seek to obtain any legal remedy for actions or omissions on the part of Client or any other third parties concerning Client’s Program, including Hunter Submissions, you are bound to make claims only limited to that Client or third party who caused you to inflict damages, and you will not attempt to impose liability on Nordic Defender or seek any legal remedy from Nordic Defender regarding those actions or omissions. Any form of agreement, contract or other interactions regarding any Program Policy will be between you and the Client only. Nordic Defender disclaims any liability arising from or related to such interactions, contracts or agreements.

PROPRIETORSHIP AND LICENSES

Nordic Defender disclaims any proprietorship rights in any Hunter Submissions. Hereby, you admit that Nordic Defender may use any statistical data or other type of information relating to Hunter Submissions to use to Nordic Defender’s advantage. Apart from any Hunter Submissions, Nordic Defender and its licensors exclusively reserve all the rights, titles and interests in and to the Services and contents in the Services, including all intellectual property rights.

All the Services and Nordic Defender contents are subject to copyright, and protected by trademark and other laws of the United States and foreign countries.

Once you provide a Client with Hunter Submissions through Services, you hereby grant to Nordic Defender a permanent, non-exclusive, irrevocable, sublicensable, transferable, global, royalty-free license to use, copy, reproduce, adapt, modify, display, transmit, and publish copies of that Hunter Submissions, for the sole aim of providing the Services.

Once you provide a Client with Hunter Submissions through Services, you hereby grant to the client a permanent, non-exclusive, irrevocable, sublicensable, transferable, global, royalty-free license to use, copy, reproduce, adapt, modify, display, transmit, and publish copies of that Hunter Submissions.

Nordic Defender hereby grants to you a non-exclusive, revocable, non-sublicensable, non-transferable, global, royalty-free license to use the Nordic Defender Platform and access and view the content that Nordic Defender provides on the its Platform solely regarding your permitted use of the Nordic Defender Platform. Nordic Defender may alter or terminate all or any part of its Platform, including your access at its sole discretion.

AUTHORITY

In case you are using Services on our Platform while representing a company or organization (e.g. your employer), or a Client or other legal entity, you have the authority to bind that organization, company or other legal entity to the terms you already comply with. If you are under the age of 18, your parents or lawful guardian must agree to these Terms on your behalf. In such case, we may call on additional data authenticating that agreement by your parents/guardian.