ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FEATURES & ACCEPTABLE USE SUPPLEMENT
Defensive Cyber Academy LLC
Effective Date: October 21, 2026
This Artificial Intelligence Features & Acceptable Use Supplement ("AI Supplement") supplements and forms part of the Defensive Cyber Academy LLC ("Company," "we," "us," or "our") Terms of Service and applies to your use of any artificial intelligence, machine-learning, large-language-model, or similar functionality made available through the Platform, including the Investigation Assistant (collectively, "AI Features").
For purposes of this AI Supplement, "Acceptable Use Policy" means the acceptable-use obligations contained in Section 8 of the Terms of Service, as supplemented by Section 5 of this AI Supplement.
By accessing or using an AI Feature, you agree to this AI Supplement and the Terms of Service. The Company's Privacy Policy, including Section 4.5 concerning the Investigation Assistant, describes how information submitted through the Investigation Assistant is processed.
If this AI Supplement conflicts with the Terms of Service concerning an AI Feature, this AI Supplement controls with respect to that AI Feature.
1. AI Features
The Platform may provide AI Features that generate responses, explanations, recommendations, summaries, coaching, or other content ("AI Output") in response to questions, prompts, instructions, information, or other content submitted or made available in connection with the AI Feature ("AI Input").
The Investigation Assistant uses artificial-intelligence technology provided by xAI (SpaceXAI LLC). Availability, functionality, models, and capabilities of AI Features may change from time to time.
2. AI Output May Be Inaccurate
Artificial-intelligence systems are probabilistic in nature. AI Output may be inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, misleading, non-unique, or otherwise unsuitable for your particular purpose.
You are responsible for independently evaluating and verifying AI Output before relying upon or acting upon it.
AI Output is provided for educational and informational purposes in connection with the Platform and is not a substitute for independent professional judgment. AI Output does not constitute legal, compliance, cybersecurity, employment, financial, or other professional advice.
Company does not warrant the accuracy, completeness, reliability, uniqueness, or fitness for a particular purpose of AI Output.
3. AI Input and User Responsibility
You are solely responsible for AI Input you submit through an AI Feature.
You represent and warrant that you have all rights, permissions, and authorizations necessary to submit such AI Input and that your submission and use of the AI Feature will not violate applicable law, the rights of another person or entity, the Terms of Service, this AI Supplement, or the Acceptable Use Policy.
Do not submit personal information about yourself or another person, confidential information, employer confidential or proprietary information, trade secrets, authentication credentials, passwords, access tokens, protected health information, or other sensitive information through the Investigation Assistant.
4. Investigation Assistant Data Processing
Information submitted through the Investigation Assistant is processed as described in the Company's Privacy Policy, including Section 4.5.
As described in that Privacy Policy, questions and certain relevant Platform information necessary to generate a response are transmitted to xAI for processing. Company does not store the text of Investigation Assistant questions or replies, subject to the operational records described in the Privacy Policy.
The Company's xAI account uses Zero Data Retention ("ZDR"). Information transmitted to xAI through the Investigation Assistant is processed pursuant to xAI's applicable enterprise terms and ZDR provisions, as further described in the Company's Privacy Policy.
Nothing in this AI Supplement modifies or replaces the more detailed data-processing and retention disclosures contained in the Privacy Policy.
5. Acceptable Use of AI Features
You may use AI Features only for lawful, authorized purposes and in accordance with the Terms of Service, this AI Supplement, the Acceptable Use Policy, and applicable restrictions governing the underlying AI services.
You may not use, attempt to use, or permit another person to use an AI Feature to:
- violate any applicable law or regulation, or promote, facilitate, or engage in illegal, harmful, fraudulent, or abusive activity;
- infringe, misappropriate, or violate another person's intellectual-property, privacy, publicity, confidentiality, or other rights;
- submit information, content, data, or materials that you do not have the legal right or authorization to provide;
- circumvent or attempt to circumvent safeguards, safety systems, protective measures, usage limitations, rate limits, access controls, or other technical restrictions, including through jailbreaking, adversarial prompting, prompt injection, or similar techniques;
- reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, copy, scrape, harvest, extract, distill, or otherwise attempt to obtain or reproduce any underlying AI model, algorithm, system, source code, model data, AI Input, AI Output, or protected component of the AI Feature, except to the extent such restriction is prohibited by applicable law;
- introduce malware, viruses, malicious code, spam, denial-of-service activity, or other material designed to damage, disrupt, interfere with, or obtain unauthorized access to the Platform, an AI Feature, the underlying AI service, another user's information, or any third-party system;
- use AI Output to develop, train, improve, or assist in developing or training a foundation model, large-language model, machine-learning model, or AI product or service that competes with the underlying AI provider, except where expressly authorized in writing;
- engage in hacking, phishing, doxing, stalking, espionage, scamming, spamming, deceptive impersonation, or unauthorized access;
- falsify, forge, fabricate, or materially misrepresent identities, credentials, records, documents, signatures, endorsements, evidence, or other information;
- generate, distribute, or use content in violation of applicable law or in a manner that unlawfully harms another person or property;
- develop, facilitate the development of, or provide material assistance concerning biological weapons, chemical weapons, weapons of mass destruction, or other uses intended to cause critical harm to human life or destruction of property;
- use an AI Feature to make high-stakes automated decisions concerning another person's safety, legal or material rights, employment, education, housing, credit, insurance, medical care, or similar significant matters;
- misrepresent AI-generated Output as human-generated, independently verified, authoritative, or originating from Company or the underlying AI provider when doing so would be false or misleading;
- access an AI Feature through unauthorized automated or non-human means, including unauthorized bots or scripts;
- circumvent or remove provenance information, watermarks, safeguards, or other protective measures incorporated into an AI Feature or AI Output; or
- otherwise use an AI Feature in a manner prohibited by the Terms of Service, this AI Supplement, the Acceptable Use Policy, applicable law, or applicable requirements governing the underlying AI service.
Company may restrict, suspend, or terminate access to an AI Feature if Company reasonably determines that use violates these requirements or if restriction is reasonably necessary to comply with applicable law, protect Company, the Platform, users or third parties, address security or misuse, or comply with requirements imposed by an AI service provider.
The restrictions applicable to AI Features include applicable acceptable-use restrictions imposed by Company's underlying AI service providers. Company may update this AI Supplement or its Acceptable Use requirements as reasonably necessary to maintain compliance with applicable provider requirements, subject to the notice provisions of the Terms of Service.
6. Intellectual Property
You retain whatever rights you otherwise possess in original AI Input submitted by you, subject to the rights reasonably necessary for Company and its service providers to process that AI Input and provide the AI Feature.
Your use of an AI Feature does not transfer to you any ownership interest in the Platform, training materials, course content, cyber ranges, assessments, software, instructional materials, reference materials, trademarks, or other intellectual property owned or licensed by Company.
AI Output may not be unique, and the same or similar output may be generated for other users. Company makes no representation that any particular AI Output is unique or eligible for intellectual-property protection.
Nothing in this AI Supplement expands any rights granted to users in Company's proprietary materials under the Terms of Service.
7. Third-Party AI Services
AI Features may depend upon models, APIs, infrastructure, or services furnished by third-party providers, including xAI.
Company does not control the continued availability or operation of third-party AI services. AI Features may therefore be modified, limited, suspended, replaced, or discontinued if reasonably necessary as a result of changes to the underlying service, applicable law, security requirements, or third-party provider requirements.
The provisions of the Terms of Service governing third-party services, service availability, disclaimers, and limitations of liability apply to AI Features except where this AI Supplement expressly provides otherwise.
8. No Use by Minors
The Platform and all AI Features are strictly intended for persons eighteen (18) years of age or older.
Minors under eighteen (18) may not access or use the Investigation Assistant or any other AI Feature under any circumstances.
Company does not knowingly permit minors under eighteen (18) to use an AI Feature and does not knowingly collect personal information through an AI Feature from children under thirteen (13).
If Company discovers that a minor has used an AI Feature or that personal information from a child under thirteen (13) has been inadvertently submitted, Company will address the account and information in accordance with its Children's Privacy & COPPA Notice and applicable law.
9. Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability
AI FEATURES AND AI OUTPUT ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE." TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, COMPANY DISCLAIMS WARRANTIES REGARDING THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, OR SUITABILITY OF AI OUTPUT.
You are responsible for independently reviewing and verifying AI Output and for decisions or actions taken in reliance upon it.
The disclaimers, limitations of liability, indemnification obligations, and other risk-allocation provisions contained in the Terms of Service apply to AI Features and AI Output to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.
10. Relationship to Existing Policies
This AI Supplement should be read together with Company's:
- Terms of Service;
- Privacy Policy;
- Acceptable Use Policy; and
- Children's Privacy & COPPA Notice.
Except as expressly supplemented by this AI Supplement, those documents remain in full force and effect.
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