Terms of Service

1. Acceptance & Eligibility

By using Devwalls Academy, you affirm that you are at least 18 years of age (or the age of legal majority in your jurisdiction) or have obtained parental/guardian consent if you are an enrolled student. If you are entering into these terms on behalf of a corporation, university, or governmental entity, you represent that you possess lawful authorization to bind that entity.

2. Ethical Lab Conduct & Permitted Scope

Devwalls Academy grants you a restricted, non-exclusive, revocable license to access interactive virtual rooms, challenges, and labs. You acknowledge and agree that:

• Isolated Targets: All offensive techniques taught (SQL injection, XSS, port scanning, prompt injection, buffer analysis) are restricted strictly to the ephemeral virtual machine or target URL provided explicitly for that room.
• Zero Third-Party Probing: You must never target Devwalls production infrastructure, authentication providers, cloud hosts, or other students' workspaces.
• Denial of Service: Distributed denial of service (DDoS), resource exhaustion, cryptocurrency mining, or botnet staging on academy infrastructure is strictly prohibited and results in immediate permanent account termination and referral to legal authorities.

3. Accounts, Authentication & Voluntary Termination

Access to the Academy requires Google OAuth authentication. You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your credentials. You agree not to share accounts, sell access, or register multiple accounts to manipulate competitive leaderboards, XP ranks, or certificate issuances.

Voluntary Account Deletion by User

You hold the absolute right to terminate your account and exercise your statutory right to erasure at any time via the self-service Delete Account option located in your Account Settings. Upon initiating deletion:

• Your user account, authentication profile, and personal identifiers are immediately and permanently removed from our production database.
• All learning progress, completed rooms, quiz submissions, and captured CTF flags are permanently erased.
• All issued certificates and their corresponding public verification entries at /verify/[code] are permanently revoked and deleted.
• Your cumulative XP is purged from all public and cohort competitive leaderboards.

Email & Notification Subscriptions

You can manage your notification preferences or unsubscribe from promotional emails, weekly intelligence digests, and daily streak alerts at any time via Profile Preferences, by clicking the unsubscribe link present in every notification email, or by visiting our Direct Unsubscribe Portal. Vital security and transaction notices cannot be opted out of while an active account is maintained.

Effect on Paid Subscriptions

Deleting an account immediately forfeits any remaining time on an active Devwalls Pro subscription and does not entitle the user to a prorated or retrospective refund for previously purchased digital services, as described in Section 4.

4. Subscriptions, Pro Plan & Billing

Devwalls Academy provides both Free and Pro tiers:

• Free Tier: Access to foundational security tracks, beginner rooms, and free certification examinations.
• Pro Tier: Unlimited access to all intermediate, advanced, and AI security rooms, exams, and priority lab instances.
• Payment Processing: Transactions are securely executed through certified payment processors (including Bachs and Paystack). We do not store full credit card numbers on our servers.
• Refunds: Pro access is granted immediately upon successful payment confirmation. Due to the digital nature of instant lab provisioning, refunds are evaluated on a case-by-case basis if technical faults prevent room access.

5. Certifications & Academic Integrity

Upon passing a certification exam (drawn dynamically from our randomized question bank with strict passing thresholds), Devwalls Academy issues a tamper-evident credential bearing a unique code (e.g., DW-7F3A91C2BE).

Any student found cheating, sharing live exam question keys, utilizing automated script bots to submit answers, or falsifying public verification records will have all issued certificates permanently revoked and will be barred from future re-examination.

6. Intellectual Property Rights

All curriculum materials, interactive challenges, custom vulnerable codebases, text, graphics, logos, marks, and software underlying Devwalls Academy are the proprietary intellectual property of Devwalls Security Limited or its licensors. You may not republish, scrape, resell, or distribute our course content without prior written permission.

7. Disclaimers & Limitation of Liability

Devwalls Academy is provided on an “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” basis. Devwalls expressly disclaims all warranties, whether express or implied. Devwalls Security Limited shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, punitive, or consequential damages resulting from your use of the platform or any unauthorized misuse of skills learned herein.

8. Governing Law & Jurisdiction

These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, without regard to conflict of law principles. Any legal suit, action, or proceeding arising out of or related to these Terms shall be instituted exclusively in the competent courts of Lagos State.