FRSecure Academy Terms of Use

Version 1.0

1. Purpose and Acceptance

FRSecure Academy provides education, training, assessments, learning resources, and related services for information security professionals, students, employees, clients, and other authorized learners.

By accessing or using FRSecure Academy, you agree to these Terms of Use and to any additional requirements that apply to a particular course, program, assessment, or learning activity.

If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, you may not use FRSecure Academy.

2. Accounts and Authorized Access

Access to FRSecure Academy is provided to authorized users for legitimate educational and administrative purposes.

Your Academy account is assigned to you individually. You may not share your account, password, authentication credentials, or access with another person.

You are responsible for:

• providing accurate account information;
• protecting your account and authentication credentials;
• using reasonable security practices;
• promptly reporting suspected unauthorized access or compromise; and
• using Academy resources only for authorized purposes.

You may not access another person's account or attempt to obtain privileges or access that have not been granted to you.

FRSecure Academy may suspend, restrict, or terminate access when reasonably necessary to protect learners, systems, information, intellectual property, or the integrity of Academy programs.

3. Acceptable Use

You must use FRSecure Academy lawfully, responsibly, and in a manner consistent with its educational purpose.

You may not:

• attempt to gain unauthorized access to systems, accounts, courses, assessments, records, or information;
• interfere with or disrupt Academy systems or services;
• bypass or attempt to bypass security, access, enrollment, or assessment controls;
• introduce malicious software, harmful code, or intentionally destructive content;
• scrape, harvest, systematically extract, or automatically collect Academy content or user information without authorization;
• use Academy systems to harass, threaten, abuse, impersonate, or unlawfully discriminate against another person;
• use Academy resources for unlawful activity; or
• assist another person in violating these Terms.

Information security education sometimes requires discussion or demonstration of techniques that could be misused. Such material is provided for legitimate educational and defensive purposes. You are responsible for applying what you learn lawfully, ethically, and only against systems, information, or environments for which you have appropriate authorization.

4. Course Materials and Intellectual Property

FRSecure Academy courses may contain text, presentations, videos, recordings, diagrams, exercises, assessments, software, templates, frameworks, methodologies, documentation, and other educational materials.

Unless expressly stated otherwise, these materials are protected by applicable intellectual-property rights and are provided for your personal or authorized organizational learning use.

You may not reproduce, republish, sell, sublicense, publicly distribute, publicly display, or commercially exploit Academy materials without authorization from the applicable rights holder.

Downloading or accessing material through the Academy does not transfer ownership of that material to you.

Some courses may contain third-party materials. Those materials remain subject to the rights and terms established by their respective owners.

Nothing in these Terms prevents you from applying the knowledge, skills, concepts, or experience you legitimately gain through your education.

5. Assessments and Academic Integrity

Assessments are intended to provide meaningful evidence of learning.

Unless collaboration, external resources, artificial intelligence tools, or other assistance is expressly permitted for a particular assessment, work submitted as your own must represent your own effort.

You may not:

• impersonate another learner;
• complete an assessment on another person's behalf;
• have another person complete an assessment on your behalf;
• improperly obtain or distribute restricted assessment questions or answers;
• falsify completion, attendance, assessment, or credential information; or
• intentionally undermine the integrity of an Academy assessment.

Specific courses or programs may establish additional assessment rules. Those requirements apply in addition to these Terms.

FRSecure Academy may investigate suspected violations of assessment integrity and may invalidate affected results, completion records, badges, certificates, or other credentials when appropriate.

6. Completion, Competency, Badges, and Credentials

FRSecure Academy may record participation, progress, assessment results, completion, badges, certificates, or other educational achievements.

These records represent only what the applicable course or program is designed and authorized to establish.

Course completion does not, by itself, establish professional competency, certification, licensure, or qualification unless the applicable program expressly states otherwise.

Likewise, attendance does not necessarily establish completion, completion does not necessarily establish competency, and competency does not constitute certification unless the applicable program has deliberately established that relationship.

Requirements for completion, assessment, badges, certificates, or other credentials may vary by course or program.

FRSecure Academy may correct or invalidate a credential or completion record if it was issued in error, obtained through fraud or material misrepresentation, or affected by a substantiated violation of assessment integrity.

7. Learner Content and Communications

You may be permitted to submit assignments, forum posts, messages, files, comments, assessment responses, or other content through FRSecure Academy.

You remain responsible for content you submit.

You must have the right to submit that content and must not knowingly submit material that violates another person's intellectual-property, privacy, confidentiality, or other legal rights.

Do not submit passwords, authentication secrets, unnecessary sensitive personal information, confidential client information, regulated data, or other information that is not appropriate or necessary for the learning activity.

FRSecure Academy may remove or restrict access to content when reasonably necessary for security, privacy, legal compliance, course administration, or enforcement of these Terms.

8. Privacy and Academy Records

Use of FRSecure Academy involves the collection and processing of information necessary to operate the Academy, administer accounts and enrollments, deliver training, support learners, conduct assessments, maintain educational records, secure the service, and meet applicable business or legal obligations.

Additional information about these practices is provided in the FRSecure Academy Privacy Notice.

Certain Academy records may need to be retained after access to a course or account ends. Removal of access does not necessarily require deletion of legitimate educational, security, administrative, contractual, or compliance records.

Privacy requests will be handled in accordance with applicable requirements and FRSecure Academy's established privacy and records-management practices.

9. Availability and Changes

FRSecure Academy is intended to provide reliable access to learning resources, but uninterrupted or error-free availability cannot be guaranteed.

Maintenance, security events, technical failures, third-party dependencies, upgrades, or other circumstances may occasionally affect availability.

FRSecure Academy may modify its platform, features, courses, programs, schedules, assessments, or learning resources when reasonably necessary.

When a change could materially affect learners who are already participating in a course or program, FRSecure Academy will make reasonable efforts to manage the change in a way that preserves the integrity of learner records and educational outcomes.

10. Suspension and Termination

FRSecure Academy may suspend or terminate access when reasonably necessary because of:

• violation of these Terms;
• unauthorized or fraudulent activity;
• threats to the security or integrity of Academy systems or information;
• material assessment-integrity violations;
• expiration or termination of the learner's authorized enrollment or relationship with the Academy;
• contractual or legal requirements; or
• other circumstances requiring access to be withdrawn.

Suspension or termination of access does not necessarily delete historical Academy records.

Where appropriate, FRSecure Academy may preserve records necessary to document participation, assessments, credentials, security events, administrative actions, contractual obligations, or other legitimate historical information.

11. Educational Information and Professional Responsibility

FRSecure Academy provides educational information and training. Academy materials cannot account for every technical environment, organization, legal requirement, business circumstance, or professional situation.

You remain responsible for exercising appropriate professional judgment when applying information obtained through the Academy.

Where legal, regulatory, contractual, financial, safety, or other specialized professional advice is required, appropriate qualified advice should be obtained for the specific circumstances.

12. Third-Party Services and Resources

Some Academy courses or services may reference, embed, integrate with, or link to third-party systems, websites, software, content, or services.

Third-party services may be governed by their own terms, privacy practices, licensing requirements, and availability conditions.

A reference or link to a third-party resource does not necessarily constitute endorsement of that resource unless expressly stated.

13. Changes to These Terms

FRSecure Academy may revise these Terms when necessary to reflect changes in Academy services, technology, security requirements, legal obligations, or administrative practices.

Material revisions will be issued as a new policy version where appropriate.

You may be required to review and agree to a revised version before continuing to use FRSecure Academy.

The applicable version and agreement history may be retained as part of the Academy's administrative records.

14. Contact

Questions about these Terms of Use or the operation of FRSecure Academy may be directed to:

FRSecure Academy
Email: training@frsecure.academy