End User License Agreement

Last updated: 30 September 2026

1. License grant

Subject to your compliance with this EULA and payment of the applicable fees, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable license to install and use the Software for your internal teaching, training, assessment, and lawful professional use, on the number of machines (seats) included in your plan.

2. Seats and activation

Your plan includes a set number of seats, meaning activated machines. Activation registers a machine against your license key so we can enforce that count. You may free a seat by deactivating a machine you no longer use, then activate another. Sharing your key beyond your seats, or with people outside your organization, is not permitted. Air-gapped machines may activate by offline file exchange.

3. Your generated labs

The individual lab packages you generate (the specific evidence sets, worksheets, answer keys, and rubrics for your students) are yours to use, distribute to your students, and retain within your licensed teaching and training, including after your license ends. This EULA does not claim ownership of those generated packages. It does not, however, grant you any right to redistribute the Software, its case library, or its generators themselves.

4. Restrictions

You may not, and may not permit anyone else to:

• copy the Software except as needed to install and back it up, or distribute, resell, rent, lease, or sublicense it;
• share, publish, or transfer license keys, or exceed your purchased seat count;
• reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Software, or attempt to derive its source code, except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by applicable law;
• circumvent, disable, or tamper with the licensing, activation, watermarking, or verification features;
• remove or alter any proprietary notices;
• use the Software in violation of our acceptable-use terms or applicable law.

5. Synthetic evidence

The Software produces realistic but entirely fictional, synthetic forensic artifacts for education and training. You must not present generated artifacts as authentic, use them to deceive anyone, or introduce them into any real investigation or legal matter as genuine. You are solely responsible for how you use what you generate.

6. Third-party components

The Software may include open-source components licensed under their own terms, which continue to apply to those components. Separate forensic tools used to work the cases (such as Autopsy, Volatility, or Wireshark) are not part of the Software and are governed by their own licenses.

7. Ownership

The Software is licensed, not sold. We and our licensors retain all right, title, and interest in and to the Software, including all intellectual-property rights. No rights are granted except those expressly stated in this EULA.

8. Updates

We may make updates, fixes, or new versions available. Unless stated otherwise, this EULA governs those too. We are not obligated to provide updates or to maintain support for older versions indefinitely.

9. Term and termination

This EULA is effective until terminated. It terminates automatically if you breach it. On termination you must stop using and remove all copies of the Software from your machines. Sections that by their nature should survive (including ownership, restrictions, disclaimers, and liability limits) survive termination. Your rights in lab packages already generated under a valid license are not affected.

10. Disclaimer and limitation of liability

The Software is provided "as is," without warranty of any kind, to the maximum extent permitted by law, and our liability is limited as set out in the Terms of Service. Those disclaimers and limitations are incorporated here by reference and apply to this EULA.

11. Contact

The Competence Collective, LLC: email contact form. See also our Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, and Refund Policy Accessibility.