Terms of Use

Agreement and eligibility

These Terms of Use are an agreement between you and Faultline. By accessing or using Faultline, you agree to them. If you do not agree, do not use the service.

You must be at least 16 years old to use Faultline. If you use the service on behalf of an organisation, you confirm that you have authority to accept these terms for it.

The service

Faultline is a practice simulator for manual software testing. You explore a fictional product, find deliberately seeded faults, write structured reports, and receive a deterministic score against a hidden answer key.

Faultline is not a certification, hiring assessment, proctored exam, or guarantee of employment readiness. Scores reflect how closely your reports match one particular answer key, not your ability as a tester.

Guest access

The current release is guest-only. You can play without an account. Results are shown once and are not saved to a profile or history. We may introduce accounts later and will update these terms and the Privacy Policy before doing so.

Acceptable use

You agree not to:

• use the service unlawfully or to harm another person;
• submit real passwords, payment card data, API keys, or sensitive personal data in reports, forms, or the demo checkout;
• attack, overload, probe, or attempt to bypass the service's security, rate limits, or access controls;
• scrape, crawl, or automate access in a way that interferes with the service or other users;
• reverse engineer or extract the hidden answer key, except as allowed by law;
• upload malware or use the service to distribute unlawful content; or
• copy, resell, or redistribute the scenarios or sandbox applications.

Your reports and content

You retain ownership of the reports and other content you submit. You grant us a limited licence to store, process, grade, and display that content as needed to run the service and show your result.

Guest reports are deleted after grading. Do not submit content you cannot licence to us or that you need to keep confidential.

Simulated environments

The products, accounts, balances, orders, and checkout flows are fictional. No real money moves. The demo card is a simulator and must not be used with real payment details. We may change or remove a simulation at any time.

Intellectual property

Faultline, its brand, scenarios, sandbox applications, answer keys, and site content are owned by us or our licensors and are protected by intellectual-property laws. These terms do not grant you ownership of them.

Third-party services

We use service providers for hosting, the database, and contact email. Their services may be subject to their own terms. We are not responsible for third-party sites we link to.

Availability and changes

We aim to keep Faultline available, but we do not promise uninterrupted access. We may change, suspend, or withdraw features, challenges, or the service itself. We may update these terms; the date at the top shows the latest version.

Disclaimers

Faultline is provided "as is" and "as available". To the extent permitted by law, we disclaim implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the service will be error-free, secure, or suitable for a particular assessment or hiring purpose.

Limitation of liability

To the extent permitted by law, Faultline is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, data, or opportunities, arising from your use of Faultline. Our total liability for a claim relating to the service is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim, or a nominal amount if you paid nothing.

Nothing in these terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including your non-waivable consumer rights.

Termination

You may stop using Faultline at any time. We may suspend or terminate access if you breach these terms, if we need to protect the service or other users, or if we discontinue the service. Provisions that by their nature should survive termination will continue to apply.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws applicable to the operator of Faultline. A dispute will be handled by a court with proper jurisdiction, subject to any mandatory rights you have where you live.

Contact

Questions about these terms or privacy: help@bughuntlab.com