Terms of Use

1. Acceptance of Terms

These Terms of Use (“Terms”) govern access to and use of OSSVantage.com and any related website, content, forms, communications, services, materials, and online resources provided by OSS Ltd (“OSSVantage,” “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”).

By accessing OSSVantage.com, submitting information, requesting services, applying for opportunities, communicating with us, or using any part of the website, you agree to these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, you must not use the website.

These Terms do not replace any signed agreement between OSSVantage and a client, candidate, contractor, employee, vendor, or partner. If a signed agreement conflicts with these Terms, the signed agreement controls for that relationship.

2. Services

OSSVantage may provide staffing, recruiting, staff augmentation, workforce placement, professional services, cybersecurity advisory, vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, compliance support, technical consulting, and related services.

Descriptions of services on the website are for informational purposes only. OSSVantage may modify, suspend, discontinue, or limit services at any time.

No service is guaranteed unless expressly agreed in a signed written agreement.

3. No Employment, Placement, or Engagement Guarantee

Submitting a resume, profile, application, inquiry, or other information does not guarantee employment, contract engagement, interview, placement, client submission, assignment, compensation, sponsorship, or continued consideration.

OSSVantage may decline, pause, or terminate consideration of any candidate or opportunity at any time, subject to applicable law and any written agreement.

Clients remain responsible for their hiring decisions, workplace conditions, supervision, onboarding, internal policies, and compliance obligations unless otherwise agreed in writing.

4. Candidate Responsibilities

Candidates, applicants, contractors, and workers must provide accurate, complete, current, and truthful information. You must not provide false employment history, false credentials, misleading qualifications, unauthorized work samples, confidential information from prior employers, or information you do not have the right to disclose.

You are responsible for ensuring that you have the right to work in the jurisdiction where services will be performed, unless a written agreement states otherwise.

You authorize OSSVantage to use candidate materials for recruiting, staffing, client submission, evaluation, placement, verification, compliance, and related purposes, subject to applicable law and the Privacy Policy.

5. Client Responsibilities

Clients and prospective clients are responsible for providing accurate role descriptions, lawful job requirements, compensation information, workplace expectations, security requirements, access requirements, and project scopes.

Clients must not request discriminatory, unlawful, unsafe, misleading, or improper hiring, screening, placement, or employment practices.

Clients are responsible for complying with applicable employment, labor, tax, immigration, workplace safety, data protection, security, procurement, and industry-specific laws unless otherwise agreed in writing.

6. Cybersecurity and Penetration Testing Services

OSSVantage may provide cybersecurity services only under a written agreement, statement of work, authorization letter, rules of engagement, or other written authorization signed or otherwise approved by an authorized client representative.

No website content, proposal, email, conversation, form submission, or informal communication authorizes OSSVantage or any user to access, scan, test, disrupt, exploit, or interact with any system, network, application, account, data, device, cloud environment, or third-party asset.

Penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, scanning, exploit validation, social engineering, physical security testing, wireless testing, red team activity, cloud testing, or similar activity may be performed only within the expressly authorized scope, dates, times, methods, systems, credentials, and limitations defined in writing.

The client represents and warrants that it has all necessary rights, permissions, authority, licenses, and consents to authorize OSSVantage to perform the agreed testing on the assets in scope.

Unless expressly authorized in writing, OSSVantage will not:

1. Perform destructive testing.
2. Conduct denial of service testing.
3. Access, modify, delete, exfiltrate, or retain production data beyond what is necessary to validate a finding.
4. Test third-party systems, shared infrastructure, cloud provider assets, vendors, suppliers, or customer environments.
5. Use persistence, malware, credential harvesting, phishing, physical intrusion, wireless attacks, or social engineering.
6. Bypass safety constraints or engage in activity outside the written rules of engagement.

Clients are responsible for backing up systems, notifying internal stakeholders, securing approvals, coordinating change windows, obtaining third-party permissions, monitoring environments, and ensuring that testing can be conducted safely.

7. Authorized Security Research and Vulnerability Disclosure

Unless OSSVantage publishes a separate vulnerability disclosure policy or bug bounty program, no person is authorized to test, scan, attack, exploit, reverse engineer, access, disrupt, or attempt to compromise OSSVantage.com, OSSVantage systems, OSSVantage accounts, OSSVantage infrastructure, or any third-party system connected to OSSVantage.

Security concerns may be reported to security@ossvantage.com. Reporting a vulnerability does not authorize unlawful access, data access, data exfiltration, service disruption, privacy violation, extortion, public disclosure, or continued testing.

8. Prohibited Use

You must not use the website or services to:

1. Violate any law, regulation, contract, intellectual property right, privacy right, employment right, or security obligation.
2. Submit false, misleading, defamatory, unlawful, discriminatory, harmful, or infringing content.
3. Access or attempt to access systems, accounts, data, networks, or services without authorization.
4. Introduce malware, harmful code, bots, scraping tools, credential harvesting tools, or unauthorized automation.
5. Disrupt, overload, scan, probe, reverse engineer, or interfere with the website or related systems.
6. Impersonate another person or misrepresent affiliation, credentials, authority, or identity.
7. Submit confidential information, trade secrets, personal information, or proprietary materials you do not have authority to provide.
8. Use OSSVantage content, candidate information, client information, or service materials for unauthorized commercial purposes.
9. Engage in harassment, discrimination, retaliation, threats, abuse, or unlawful employment practices.
10. Circumvent security controls, usage restrictions, or access limitations.

9. Website Content and No Professional Advice

Website content is provided for general informational purposes only. It does not constitute legal, employment, immigration, tax, financial, insurance, compliance, or cybersecurity advice.

Cybersecurity content may describe general risks, methods, or services, but it does not authorize testing or provide a guarantee of security, compliance, or risk elimination.

You should obtain professional advice before acting on legal, employment, tax, immigration, compliance, or security matters.

10. Intellectual Property

The website, content, designs, logos, trademarks, service names, text, graphics, documents, processes, frameworks, templates, reports, and other materials are owned by OSSVantage or its licensors and are protected by intellectual property laws.

You may view website content for personal, internal, or business evaluation purposes. You may not copy, reproduce, modify, distribute, publish, scrape, sell, license, create derivative works from, or exploit OSSVantage content without prior written permission.

All rights not expressly granted are reserved.

11. User Submissions

If you submit resumes, profiles, forms, comments, files, project information, security information, or other materials to OSSVantage, you represent that you have the right to submit them and that they do not violate any law, contract, confidentiality duty, intellectual property right, privacy right, or third-party right.

You grant OSSVantage a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, transferable, sublicensable license to use, host, process, copy, format, transmit, disclose, and display submitted materials as reasonably necessary to operate the website, evaluate opportunities, provide services, communicate with you, comply with law, and perform business operations, subject to the Privacy Policy and any signed written agreement.

12. Confidentiality

Information exchanged through the website is not automatically confidential unless required by law or covered by a signed confidentiality agreement. Do not submit trade secrets, regulated data, proprietary information, credentials, client data, classified information, or sensitive security information through the website unless OSSVantage has authorized that submission and appropriate safeguards are in place.

For client engagements, confidentiality obligations must be documented in a written agreement.

13. Third-Party Links, Tools, and Platforms

The website may link to or integrate with third-party websites, platforms, job boards, applicant tracking systems, client portals, analytics providers, payment providers, cloud providers, or other services. OSSVantage does not control and is not responsible for third-party content, availability, privacy practices, security practices, or terms.

Use of third-party services is at your own risk and may be governed by separate terms and policies.

14. Disclaimers

The website and website content are provided “as is” and “as available.” To the maximum extent permitted by law, OSSVantage disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, noninfringement, availability, accuracy, completeness, security, and uninterrupted operation.

OSSVantage does not warrant that the website will be error-free, secure, available, compatible, or free of harmful components.

OSSVantage does not guarantee employment outcomes, candidate availability, client hiring decisions, cybersecurity outcomes, vulnerability discovery, compliance outcomes, business results, or uninterrupted service.

15. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, OSSVantage and its owners, officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, affiliates, service providers, and licensors will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, punitive, or enhanced damages, including lost profits, lost revenue, lost business, lost data, business interruption, reputational harm, loss of goodwill, or security incidents, arising out of or related to the website, services, content, submissions, or these Terms, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, OSSVantage's total liability for claims arising out of or related to the website or these Terms will not exceed one hundred U.S. dollars or the amount you paid directly to OSSVantage for website access in the three months before the event giving rise to the claim, whichever is greater.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations of liability. In those jurisdictions, liability will be limited to the maximum extent permitted by law.

16. Indemnification

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless OSSVantage and its owners, officers, directors, employees, contractors, agents, affiliates, service providers, and licensors from and against any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of or related to:

1. Your use of the website or services.
2. Your submissions or materials.
3. Your violation of these Terms.
4. Your violation of law or third-party rights.
5. Your unauthorized access, testing, scanning, interference, or misuse of systems, accounts, data, or services.
6. Your misrepresentation of identity, authority, credentials, qualifications, permissions, or rights.
7. Your failure to obtain required approvals for cybersecurity testing or service authorization.

17. Compliance with Laws

You are responsible for complying with all laws applicable to your use of the website and services, including privacy, data protection, employment, labor, immigration, tax, export control, anti-corruption, cybersecurity, computer misuse, intellectual property, and communications laws.

OSSVantage may restrict, suspend, or refuse services where required by law, sanctions, export controls, security concerns, compliance risks, or business judgment.

18. Export Controls and Sanctions

You may not use OSSVantage.com or services in violation of U.S. export control laws, sanctions laws, or similar laws. You represent that you are not located in, organized under the laws of, or ordinarily resident in a jurisdiction subject to comprehensive U.S. sanctions, and that you are not listed on any restricted party list that would prohibit OSSVantage from providing services to you.

19. Governing Law and Venue

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Georgia, United States, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles.

Unless otherwise required by law or agreed in writing, any dispute arising out of or related to these Terms or the website will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Fulton County, Georgia, and you consent to personal jurisdiction and venue in those courts.

20. Arbitration Option

[Optional clause for counsel review — included verbatim from the in-house draft.]

Any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms, the website, or related services shall be resolved by binding arbitration administered by [AAA/JAMS] in accordance with its applicable rules. The arbitration shall take place in Fulton County, Georgia, be conducted in English, and be decided by a single arbitrator. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

Class actions, class arbitrations, representative actions, and consolidated proceedings are waived to the maximum extent permitted by law.

This arbitration clause does not prevent either party from seeking temporary or preliminary injunctive relief for misuse of intellectual property, confidentiality violations, unauthorized system access, or security threats.

21. Termination and Suspension

OSSVantage may suspend, block, restrict, or terminate access to the website or services at any time if we believe you violated these Terms, created risk, violated law, misused services, submitted false information, attempted unauthorized access, or acted inconsistently with OSSVantage's interests or obligations.

22. Changes to Terms

OSSVantage may update these Terms at any time by posting revised Terms on OSSVantage.com. The updated Terms are effective when posted unless a later date is stated. Continued use of the website after updates means you accept the revised Terms.

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