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The terms that govern your access to and use of govconcyber.info — including content-use limits, no-AI-training restrictions, warranty and liability disclaimers, and governing law.

Last reviewed: June 25, 2026Effective: June 25, 2026

These Terms of Use ("Terms") govern your access to and use of https://www.govconcyber.info and related GovConCyber websites, pages, newsletters, downloads, forms, and online services that link to these Terms (collectively, the "Site"). The Site is operated by GovConCyber LLC ("GovConCyber," "we," "us," or "our").

By accessing or using the Site, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the Site.

1. What GovConCyber Provides

GovConCyber is an educational and informational platform focused on cybersecurity requirements that affect U.S. government contractors. The Site may include articles, explainers, research, checklists, templates, trackers, newsletters, downloads, speaking information, advisory-service descriptions, and other resources.

GovConCyber is not a law firm, MSP, MSSP, C3PAO, RPO, CPA firm, auditor, certification body, contracting officer, or government agency. Public website content is general information only.

2. No Legal or Professional Advice

The Site provides general educational information. It does not provide legal, cybersecurity, accounting, tax, audit, CMMC assessment, contracting officer, government, or other professional advice.

Government-contractor cybersecurity obligations are fact-specific. They may depend on contract clauses, agency instructions, flowdowns, data type, CUI or FCI handling, system boundaries, cloud architecture, subcontracting structure, incident facts, state law, and other circumstances. You should consult qualified counsel and appropriate cybersecurity, accounting, compliance, or contracting professionals before acting on information from the Site.

3. No Attorney-Client Relationship

Using the Site, reading content, subscribing to a newsletter, downloading a resource, submitting a form, sending an email, requesting information, or attending a public GovConCyber presentation does not create an attorney-client relationship or any other confidential, fiduciary, advisory, or professional-client relationship.

Any separate advisory, speaking, research, partnership, legal, or professional relationship must be expressly agreed to in a written agreement signed or otherwise accepted by GovConCyber and the relevant client or counterparty. Unless such an agreement exists, you should assume no engagement has been formed.

4. No Confidential Submissions

Do not send GovConCyber confidential, privileged, proprietary, classified, export-controlled, Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), Federal Contract Information (FCI), source-selection-sensitive, procurement-sensitive, incident-response, breach, trade-secret, security-vulnerability, or contractor-sensitive information through the Site, ordinary email, newsletter forms, download forms, or advisory/speaking inquiry forms.

Unsolicited communications sent through the Site or by ordinary email may not be treated as confidential or privileged. Submission of information does not prevent GovConCyber from working with others, publishing on similar issues, or responding to other inquiries, subject to applicable law and any separate written agreement.

5. Privacy

Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and share information. By using the Site, you acknowledge the Privacy Policy.

6. Eligibility and Use on Behalf of an Organization

You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of legal majority in your jurisdiction, to use the Site. If you use the Site on behalf of an organization, you represent that you are authorized to accept these Terms on that organization's behalf, and "you" includes both you and that organization.

7. Permitted Use

Subject to these Terms, GovConCyber grants you a limited, revocable, nonexclusive, nontransferable license to access and use the Site and to download or print materials for your personal, educational, or internal business reference use.

You may cite or link to GovConCyber content in a fair and non-misleading way, provided that you do not imply endorsement, sponsorship, affiliation, legal advice, or permission beyond what these Terms allow.

8. Intellectual Property

The Site, including text, graphics, logos, page design, organization, compilations, templates, tools, downloads, and other content, is owned by GovConCyber or its licensors and is protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws.

Except as expressly allowed by these Terms or applicable law, you may not copy, reproduce, modify, publish, distribute, transmit, display, perform, sell, license, create derivative works from, or commercially exploit Site content without prior written permission from GovConCyber.

Internal business use of downloaded resources does not transfer ownership or grant rights to resell, republish, white-label, sublicense, or incorporate GovConCyber content into competing products or services.

9. No Scraping, AI Training, Bulk Extraction, or Resale

Unless GovConCyber gives prior written permission, you may not:

  • Scrape, crawl, harvest, index, or extract Site content using bots, scripts, automated tools, or bulk methods;
  • Use Site content to train, fine-tune, evaluate, prompt, populate, or operate a machine-learning model, generative AI system, retrieval database, legal/compliance chatbot, or similar automated system;
  • Build a competing database, toolkit, subscription product, advisory product, or training product from Site content;
  • Remove copyright, trademark, source, date, or disclaimer notices;
  • Republish GovConCyber content as your own; or
  • Sell, sublicense, or commercially redistribute Site content.

This section does not restrict fair use, ordinary search-engine indexing that respects technical access controls, or limited quoting with attribution where permitted by law.

10. Trademarks and Government References

govconCyber℠, Breach of Contract, Compliance Roadmap Assessment™, associated logos, and other GovConCyber names, marks, slogans, or design elements may be trademarks or service marks of GovConCyber. You may not use them in a way that suggests endorsement, sponsorship, affiliation, or authorization without permission.

References to FAR, DFARS, CMMC, CUI, FCI, NIST, FedRAMP, DoD, CISA, GSA, SBA, DOJ, federal agencies, state agencies, laws, regulations, standards, programs, or third-party organizations are for educational and identification purposes only. GovConCyber is not affiliated with, sponsored by, endorsed by, certified by, authorized by, or acting on behalf of any government agency, standards body, accreditation body, assessment organization, or third party unless expressly stated in writing.

Government agency names, seals, insignia, and third-party marks belong to their respective owners. GovConCyber does not claim rights in them.

11. User Submissions and Feedback

If you submit comments, questions, suggestions, feedback, topic ideas, resource requests, corrections, or similar materials to GovConCyber, you grant GovConCyber permission to use, reproduce, adapt, publish, and develop those submissions for Site, business, research, editorial, and operational purposes without compensation to you, except where a separate written agreement provides otherwise.

Do not submit anything you do not have the right to share. Do not submit sensitive contractor information, confidential information, CUI, FCI, classified information, export-controlled information, trade secrets, personal information of others, or information subject to a nondisclosure, protective, procurement, or security restriction.

12. Prohibited Conduct

You agree not to:

  • Use the Site for unlawful, harmful, deceptive, abusive, or unauthorized purposes;
  • Interfere with or disrupt the Site;
  • Attempt to gain unauthorized access to systems, accounts, data, or networks;
  • Upload or transmit malware, malicious code, or harmful content;
  • Send spam or unsolicited commercial messages through the Site;
  • Impersonate another person or organization;
  • Misrepresent your relationship with GovConCyber;
  • Violate intellectual-property, privacy, publicity, export-control, procurement, or other legal rights;
  • Submit or transmit confidential, privileged, classified, CUI, FCI, export-controlled, procurement-sensitive, source-selection-sensitive, incident-response, breach, or trade-secret information; or
  • Use Site content in a way that could mislead others about legal, compliance, cybersecurity, or government requirements.

13. Third-Party Content and Links

The Site may link to or discuss third-party websites, tools, vendors, laws, regulations, standards, articles, agency resources, cases, products, services, or events. These links and references are provided for educational convenience.

GovConCyber does not control, endorse, guarantee, or assume responsibility for third-party content, websites, practices, products, services, privacy policies, or security. Your use of third-party resources is at your own risk and subject to the third party's terms and policies.

14. No Compliance Guarantee

GovConCyber does not guarantee that Site content is complete, current, error-free, or sufficient for your organization's compliance obligations. GovConCyber does not guarantee CMMC certification, assessment results, SPRS scores, incident-reporting sufficiency, contract eligibility, agency acceptance, audit results, cybersecurity outcomes, or protection from disputes, claims, investigations, penalties, termination, suspension, debarment, or False Claims Act exposure.

15. Changes to the Site and Terms

We may update, modify, suspend, remove, or discontinue any part of the Site at any time without notice. We may revise these Terms by posting an updated version with a new "Last reviewed" date. Your continued use of the Site after updated Terms are posted means you accept the updated Terms.

16. Disclaimer of Warranties

The Site and all content are provided "as is" and "as available." To the fullest extent permitted by law, GovConCyber disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, timeliness, reliability, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, non-infringement, security, availability, and error-free operation.

GovConCyber does not warrant that the Site will be uninterrupted, secure, virus-free, current, or free of harmful components, or that defects will be corrected.

17. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, GovConCyber and its owners, officers, employees, contractors, contributors, service providers, and affiliates will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary, punitive, or similar damages; lost profits; lost revenue; business interruption; loss of data; loss of goodwill; compliance failures; contract losses; assessment failures; or other damages arising from or related to your use of or inability to use the Site or reliance on Site content.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, GovConCyber's total liability for any claim arising out of or related to the Site or these Terms will not exceed $100 or the amount you paid directly to GovConCyber for the specific Site-based resource giving rise to the claim, whichever is greater.

Some jurisdictions do not allow certain limitations of liability, so some limitations may not apply to you.

18. Indemnification

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless GovConCyber and its owners, officers, employees, contractors, contributors, service providers, and affiliates from and against claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs, and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of or related to:

  • Your use or misuse of the Site;
  • Your violation of these Terms;
  • Your submissions or feedback;
  • Your violation of another person's or organization's rights;
  • Your violation of law; or
  • Your use or misuse of Site content.

19. Suspension or Termination

We may suspend, restrict, or terminate your access to the Site at any time, with or without notice, if we believe you have violated these Terms, created risk for GovConCyber or others, or used the Site in a harmful or unauthorized way. Sections that by their nature should survive termination will survive.

20. Governing Law and Venue

These Terms and any dispute arising out of or related to the Site are governed by the laws of the District of Columbia, without regard to conflict-of-law rules, except to the extent federal law applies.

You agree that any action arising out of or related to these Terms or the Site will be filed only in the state or federal courts located in the District of Columbia, and you consent to the jurisdiction and venue of those courts.

21. Severability

If any provision of these Terms is found unenforceable, that provision will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted, and the remaining provisions will remain in effect.

22. Entire Agreement

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, Disclaimer/Legal Notice, and any additional terms posted for specific resources or services, constitute the entire agreement between you and GovConCyber regarding your use of the Site.

23. Contact

Questions about these Terms may be sent to:

GovConCyber LLC Email: contact@govconcyber.info Mailing address: 1717 N Street NW, Suite 1, Washington, DC 20036