Legal

Our approach to security.

How we protect ussoftware.io and the information you share with us — and how to report a vulnerability if you find one.

Starter content. Effective January 15, 2020. This is a working draft — please have counsel review before relying on it.

1 · Our approach

We follow widely accepted security practices to protect ussoftware.io and the information you share with us. No system is perfectly secure, and we won’t pretend otherwise — but the controls below describe what we do today.

2 · Transport security

The Site is served exclusively over HTTPS. Connections are protected by modern TLS, and HTTP requests are redirected to their HTTPS equivalents.

3 · Hosting and infrastructure

The Site is hosted on Amazon Web Services. Operating-system and application updates are applied on a regular cadence. Administrative access is restricted to a small group of named engineers using SSH keys; password authentication for administrative access is disabled.

4 · Application security

Our public-facing forms (contact and job applications) are protected by Cloudflare Turnstile, which blocks automated abuse. Form submissions are routed through FormSubmit.co to info@ussoftware.io and jobs@ussoftware.io over TLS.

WordPress core, our theme, and our plugins are kept up to date, and unused themes and plugins are removed. Administrative accounts use strong, unique passwords.

5 · Reporting a vulnerability

If you believe you’ve discovered a security issue affecting ussoftware.io or any of our public services, please email legal@ussoftware.io with:

  • A clear description of the issue.
  • Steps to reproduce, including any URLs, payloads, or accounts involved.
  • The potential impact as you understand it.

We commit to acknowledging your report within five business days. We ask that you give us a reasonable opportunity to investigate and remediate before any public disclosure, and that you avoid actions that could harm us, our users, or third parties — including denial-of-service testing, social engineering, or accessing data that doesn’t belong to you.

6 · Disclaimer

This page describes our practices for ussoftware.io. It does not create a contractual or legal obligation, and it is not a warranty or guarantee about the security of any specific system or the safety of any specific data. The Site is provided “as is” under our Terms.

7 · Contact

Security questions or reports: legal@ussoftware.io.