Terms

Version 1.0. Effective date: 9 November 2026. Written 7 November 2026. These terms apply to lab.sectratek.com and to visitors in the United States.

Who we are

The SectraTEK Lab publishes original research on mobile devices. It is run by Prudential Associates & Cyber-Investigations Group, 9200 Corporate Blvd, Suite 200, Rockville, MD 20850, United States (“we”). By using the site you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the site.

Using the site

You may read the site and share its research under the licences on the Licences page. When you use the site and its forms, you agree not to:

• disrupt or overload the site, or scrape it at a rate that affects other readers;
• probe it for weaknesses outside the good-faith research described in the Disclosure policy;
• use scripts to guess challenge answers or to get around the rate limits;
• send us malware, unlawful content, or personal data about other people;
• pretend to be someone else, or suggest that we endorse you or your work.

We may block access that breaks these rules.

Research is information, not advice

Articles describe what we observed on devices and extractions in our research collection and on synthetic data. They are indicators and do not prove what happened on any other device. They are not legal advice or an opinion on any case. Test on your own device and use your own judgment before you rely on a result in casework.

Datasets

Every Lab dataset is synthetic and is released under CC BY 4.0, with its code under the MIT licence. There is nothing to accept before you download. If you find what looks like real personal data in a dataset, tell us at once through Contact and we will look into it and correct it.

Questions and forms

Do not send case data or personal data about other people in Ask the Lab or in any form. By sending a question you let us read it, keep it as the privacy notice says, answer it, and, if you chose a public answer, publish it with the answer in the archive, edited to remove identifying detail. You keep your rights in what you wrote.

Our content

We own, or have the right to publish, the content of this site. The articles, datasets and code are licensed as the Licences page says. The SectraTEK name and logo are not licensed by that page. Third-party material keeps its own licence and is marked where it appears.

Other sites and software

The site links to other websites and to open-source projects. We do not control them and are not responsible for them. Their terms and licences apply when you use them.

Changes to the site

We may change, suspend or remove any part of the site, or any article, at any time. When we correct an article we record the change in the corrections log.

No warranty

The site and everything on it are provided “as is” and “as available”, without a warranty of any kind, express or implied, including any warranty of accuracy, fitness for a particular purpose, merchantability or non-infringement. We try to be accurate and we correct mistakes, but we do not promise that the research is complete or error free, or that the site will always be available.

Limit of liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data or lost business, arising from your use of the site or the research and datasets on it. Our total liability for any claim connected with the site is limited to 1,000 US dollars. These limits do not apply to liability that the law does not allow us to limit, and your rights under the law of your state that cannot be waived stay in place.

Governing law

The law of the State of Maryland governs these terms and any dispute about the site, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any such dispute is to be brought in the state courts in Montgomery County, Maryland, or in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, and you and we accept those courts.

General

If a part of these terms cannot be enforced, the rest stays in force. If we do not enforce a term, we have not given it up. The site serves visitors in the United States only.

Changes to these terms

We date every version. For a material change, we post the new text 14 days before it applies. Using the site after that date means you accept the new terms.

Contact

Write to research@sectratek.com, or use Contact.