Terms of Use

1. This Service

1.1 Browser Rules (the “Service”) is provided by ProCo-STS Limited (of Higher Buckland Farm, Farm Lane, Buckland St Mary, Chard, Somerset TA20 3QZ UK, company number 05054551) (“we”, “us”) to you. The Service is the Browser Rules admin console at console.browser-rules.com and the Browser Rules extension for Chrome and Edge. Your use of the Service, and of any additional services we introduce within it, constitutes acceptance by you of these Terms of Use.

1.2 Where you use the Service on behalf of an organisation, you accept these Terms of Use for that organisation and confirm you have authority to do so.

2. Registration and Account Integrity

2.1 To use the admin console you need an account, with your email address, a password and two-factor authentication. It is your responsibility to ensure that the information you provide is accurate, not misleading and relates to you. You cannot create an account using the names and information of another person or using words that are the trademarks or the property of another party (including ours), or vulgar, obscene or in any other way inappropriate. We reserve the right with or without notice to suspend or terminate any account in breach.

2.2 Each plan allows a number of users: the people whose browsers are enrolled in your organisation. These limits must be adhered to, and an enrolment key must only be used for your own organisation’s browsers. A breach of this clause may result in suspension or termination of the organisation’s account.

2.3 You are responsible for keeping your password, two-factor authentication and your organisation’s enrolment key secure. If you suspect that any of them has been disclosed to or obtained by another party you should change it (an owner can replace the enrolment key in the admin console) and contact us immediately. Please note that we never contact users requesting them to confirm their password or other sign-in details.

3. Pricing, Plans and Features

3.1 For current pricing and plans please see the pricing section of our website.

3.2 We reserve the right to change pricing, plans and the features offered. We will give organisations on a paid plan at least 30 days’ notice of a price increase.

4. Payment and Credit Control

4.1 Payments and subscriptions for paid plans are handled by Paddle.com Market Ltd, Judd House, 18-29 Mora Street, London, EC1V 8BT, United Kingdom, our reseller and merchant of record. Any payment questions must be directed to [email protected].

4.2 Subscriptions are charged in advance for the period chosen (monthly or annually), for the number of users on your organisation’s plan, and renew automatically until cancelled.

4.3 Where a payment is declined by your payment provider (for whatever reason), access to your organisation’s account may be suspended until a valid payment has been processed. Browsers already enrolled keep enforcing the last policies they received.

5. Cancellation

5.1 You may cancel your organisation’s subscription or account at any time, by emailing [email protected] from an owner’s email address.

5.2 Cancellation by any other means, including (but not limited to) telephone call, text or instant message, is not valid.

5.3 No refunds are provided for monthly or annual subscriptions, except where required by law.

6. Upgrading and Downgrading

6.1 Organisations can change plan at any time. Where a subscription is changed part way through a period, the difference is charged or credited as Paddle calculates it.

7. The Free Plan and the Beta

7.1 The Free plan is offered for organisations with up to the number of users shown on our website, and may be changed or withdrawn at any time with reasonable notice.

7.2 While the Service is in beta, it is provided free of charge, “as is”, and may change, be interrupted or have features withdrawn without notice. We will give at least 30 days’ notice before the beta ends and before any charge applies.

7.3 These Terms of Use apply to all Free plan and beta accounts.

8. Technical Support

8.1 Technical support is provided by email at [email protected], through the help centre, and by such other means as we decide in order to provide a proper service to users.

8.2 We reserve the right not to provide a full technical support service to Free plan users.

8.3 Our support staff can view your organisation’s admin console only while one of its owners allows it, for the time the owner chooses, read only. Each visit is recorded in your organisation’s audit log.

9. What the Service Does and Does Not Do

9.1 Browser Rules is an additional layer of protection in the browser. It reduces the risk from downloads, websites and clipboard content, but no security product can stop every threat, and we do not guarantee that the Service will detect, block or prevent any particular file, website, attack or loss.

9.2 You remain responsible for your organisation’s security, including antivirus, email filtering, software updates, backups and the policies you set in the admin console. Some limits of the Service are described in What it can and can’t protect.

10. Your Organisation’s Users and Data

10.1 The Service records information about how the people using your organisation’s browsers download files, visit websites and use the clipboard, as described in our Privacy Policy. You are responsible for having a lawful basis for this, for telling those people about it, and for the policies and privacy settings you choose.

10.2 We process your organisation’s data on your behalf and in line with your instructions, as set out in our Privacy Policy. You retain all ownership rights to the content and data you or your organisation provide.

11. The Extension

11.1 We grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and use the Browser Rules extension in the browsers your organisation uses, for the purpose of the Service.

11.2 You may not copy (other than as needed to install it), modify, reverse engineer, resell or redistribute the extension, except to the extent the law allows.

12. Specific Service Rules

12.1 As a user you agree not to do any of the following:

1. Abuse, harass, threaten, stalk, defame or in any way seek to violate the rights of another user or third party.

2. Publish or seek to distribute any material or information that is unlawful, harmful, obscene, indecent, libellous, profane, defamatory, racist, or in any other way inappropriate or objectionable, including in messages shown to users.

3. Use or harvest data provided by other users in a way that they would object to.

4. Encourage illegal activity or activity that violates the rights of other Service users or third parties, whether individuals or organisations.

5. Supply content calculated to deliberately mislead other users or third parties, including content falsely made to appear from or be endorsed by us.

6. Pose as another user, third party or organisation employee for the purposes of obtaining user or third party information.

7. Transmit or transfer any viruses, trojans, worms or any other malicious programs or code intended to spy on, gain control over, disrupt, destroy or in any other way impair any computer hardware or software or any other equipment.

8. Attempt to gain access to our servers or other equipment in order to disrupt, impair, overload or otherwise hinder or compromise the safety, security or privacy of any of the services provided by or relied upon by us and users. Security research is welcome when reported to us as described on our Security page.

9. Use the Service to monitor people without their knowledge where the law requires that they be told.

10. Reframe or re-purpose the Service, or remove, obscure or block any notices provided by us on the Service.

11. Use any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means to access the admin console, other than the extension itself.

12.2 The above list is not intended to be exhaustive. We reserve the right to remove (with or without notice) any content and suspend or terminate (with or without notice) the account of any user who in our sole judgment is in breach of these Terms of Use.

13. Termination

13.1 We may terminate your account, and the content and data associated with it, at any time where these Terms of Use have been breached. Such termination can be with or without notice. As a user you can choose to terminate your account at any time (subject to any payment plan entered into).

13.2 When an organisation’s account closes, its data is deleted as described in our Privacy Policy.

13.3 Various clauses within these Terms of Use are designed to survive and continue after termination, including (but not limited to) clauses 9, 10, 16 and 17.

14. Access and Backups

14.1 We take all reasonable steps to ensure that the Service is available and functioning fully at all times. However, we do not accept any responsibility for “down-time” or poor performance of our servers or infrastructure, or where the Service is unavailable for any other reason, whether within or outside our direct control. While the admin console cannot be reached, enrolled browsers keep enforcing the last policies they received.

14.2 We take all reasonable steps to back up data that is entered onto the Service by you.

15. Disclaimer

15.1 We are not responsible for any links to third party websites from the Service, and the inclusion of any link does not imply an endorsement of a third party website or service by us.

16. Limitation of Liability

16.1 We shall not be liable for any indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special or punitive damages, including loss of profits, loss of data, or loss arising from any threat the Service did not detect or block.

16.2 Our total liability to you in connection with the Service in any 12 month period is limited to the amount you paid us for the Service in that period. Nothing in these Terms of Use limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

17. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold us and our subsidiaries, affiliates and partners and their respective officers and employees harmless from any loss, fines, fees, liability or claim made by any third party arising from your breach of these Terms of Use whilst using the Service or any other service provided by us.

18. Privacy

Use of the Service is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated into these Terms of Use by this reference.

19. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms of Use. We will tell admin console users about significant changes before they take effect; continuing to use the Service after that means you accept them.

20. Severability

The foregoing paragraphs, sub-paragraphs and clauses of these Terms of Use shall be read and construed independently of each other. Should any part of this agreement or its paragraphs, sub-paragraphs or clauses be found invalid it shall not affect the remaining paragraphs, sub-paragraphs and clauses.

21. Age Restrictions

This Service is not available to children (under the age of 16). Our product is strictly B2B (business to business).

22. Waiver

Failure by us to enforce any accrued rights under these Terms of Use is not to be taken as or deemed to be a waiver of those rights unless we acknowledge the waiver in writing.

23. Jurisdiction

These Terms of Use shall be interpreted, construed and enforced in accordance with English law and shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.