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By accessing or using InfoSecured.ai, you agree to these Terms of Service. If you do not agree to these Terms, do not use the website.

These Terms apply to all visitors, subscribers, users, and anyone who accesses or uses materials made available through InfoSecured.ai.

2. About InfoSecured.ai

InfoSecured.ai is an independent AI assurance research and proof-of-work platform. The site publishes educational articles, templates, evidence frameworks, control maps, research notes, and prototype workflows related to AI governance, AI risk, human oversight, vendor AI risk, audit evidence, model-risk support, and regulated AI systems.

3. Educational Use Only

All content on InfoSecured.ai is provided for independent research, educational, informational, and portfolio/proof-of-work purposes only.

Articles, templates, checklists, registers, questionnaires, control maps, research notes, prototype workflows, and other materials are not legal, audit, compliance, regulatory, model-validation, cybersecurity, financial, accounting, risk-management, or professional advice.

You are responsible for validating all materials against your organization’s policies, controls, legal obligations, audit standards, regulatory expectations, contractual duties, risk appetite, and professional requirements.

4. No Professional Relationship

Your use of InfoSecured.ai does not create a consultant-client, attorney-client, auditor-client, advisor-client, fiduciary, professional, employment, partnership, agency, or confidential relationship between you and InfoSecured.ai.

Contacting InfoSecured.ai, subscribing to updates, downloading materials, or submitting a form does not create a professional engagement or duty to provide advice, review, validation, audit work, assurance work, or support.

5. No Warranty or Guarantee

InfoSecured.ai is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. We do not warrant or guarantee that the website or materials will be accurate, complete, current, error-free, uninterrupted, secure, suitable for your use case, or accepted by any regulator, auditor, employer, client, institution, court, or third party.

We do not guarantee any compliance outcome, audit result, regulatory outcome, model-risk outcome, security outcome, business result, employment result, ranking result, certification result, or operational result from using this website or its materials.

6. Templates and Downloadable Materials

InfoSecured.ai may provide templates, checklists, registers, questionnaires, control maps, prototype workflows, and other downloadable or copyable materials.

These materials are starting points only. They must be reviewed, adapted, tested, approved, and validated by qualified personnel before use in any business, legal, audit, compliance, risk, security, vendor-management, model-governance, or regulated environment.

You are solely responsible for determining whether any template or artifact is appropriate for your specific organization, jurisdiction, industry, control environment, risk profile, and use case.

7. GridLock GRC and Prototype Materials

GridLock GRC and any related tools, diagrams, workflows, control maps, mockups, datasets, examples, or prototypes are provided as public proof-of-work and educational demonstrations.

Prototype materials are not production systems, certified tools, audit platforms, compliance software, risk engines, model-validation systems, or professional assurance products unless expressly stated in a separate written agreement.

Do not rely on prototype materials as a substitute for formal governance processes, legal review, professional audit work, regulatory analysis, security testing, model validation, or organizational approval.

8. Research Notes and Source Materials

InfoSecured.ai may discuss research papers, standards, frameworks, regulatory materials, governance practices, public sources, and professional concepts. References to third-party materials do not mean that InfoSecured.ai is affiliated with, endorsed by, or approved by those third parties.

Research summaries and commentary may be incomplete, outdated, interpretive, or limited by available sources. You should review original sources and qualified professional guidance before relying on any research discussion.

9. User Responsibilities

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11. Intellectual Property

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You may view, download, and use publicly available materials for personal, educational, internal research, or evaluation purposes, subject to these Terms and any additional license terms shown with the material.

You may not sell, sublicense, republish, repackage, redistribute, or present InfoSecured.ai materials as your own product, service, framework, certification, audit method, or commercial offering without written permission.

12. Limited Permission to Use Templates

Unless a specific template states otherwise, you may adapt downloaded templates for your own personal learning, portfolio development, academic preparation, internal organizational review, or non-commercial evaluation.

This permission does not allow you to resell the materials, upload them to paid template marketplaces, use them as part of a competing content library, remove attribution, or imply that InfoSecured.ai has reviewed or approved your implementation.

13. Third-Party Links and Services

InfoSecured.ai may link to third-party websites, research papers, standards bodies, regulatory sources, professional organizations, tools, plugins, platforms, or embedded content.

Third-party links are provided for convenience and context only. We do not control, endorse, warrant, or assume responsibility for third-party websites, services, content, policies, security, availability, or accuracy.

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16. Availability and Changes to the Website

We may modify, suspend, remove, restrict, or discontinue any part of InfoSecured.ai at any time without notice. This includes articles, templates, downloads, research notes, prototype materials, forms, links, and website features.

We may also update, revise, replace, or remove materials when they become outdated, incomplete, inaccurate, experimental, or inconsistent with the site’s direction.

17. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, InfoSecured.ai and its operators, contributors, affiliates, service providers, and related parties will not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, punitive, or other damages arising from or related to your use of, or inability to use, the website or its materials.

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19. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms from time to time. The “Last Updated” date will show when the Terms were most recently revised. Your continued use of InfoSecured.ai after updated Terms are posted means you accept the revised Terms.

20. Termination or Restriction of Access

We may restrict, suspend, or terminate access to InfoSecured.ai or any materials at any time if we believe you have violated these Terms, misused the website, created security risk, infringed rights, or engaged in unlawful or harmful activity.

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Any disputes arising from or related to these Terms or the website will be handled in the courts located in [Insert Venue], unless applicable law requires a different forum.

22. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is found invalid, unlawful, or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in effect to the maximum extent permitted by law.

23. Entire Agreement

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