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These terms govern your use of countermove.xyz, a free informational website. You may quote what we publish with attribution, and the incident tracker and guardrail checklist are licensed CC BY 4.0. Use our attack scenarios only on systems you are authorized to test. The site comes without warranties and is not legal advice.

Effective October 21, 2026.

1. Who we are and accepting these terms

countermove.xyz (the “site”) is operated by Futurist IP, a corporation in Ontario, Canada (“we”, “us”). Countermove is a product of Futurist IP. By using the site you agree to these terms. If you don’t agree, please don’t use the site. If you use the site on behalf of an organization, you agree on its behalf and confirm you are allowed to.

Our privacy policy explains how we handle personal information. Our security page explains how to report a vulnerability.

2. What the site is

The site publishes information about how AI agents that handle money can be manipulated: an incident tracker, attack families, test scenarios, guides, regulation summaries, a glossary and a sample report. It is free and requires no account.

Countermove, the testing product, is in development and not yet available. Descriptions of how it will work reflect our current plans and may change. These terms cover the website only. The product, when offered, will have its own agreement.

3. Early access and email sign-ups

Joining early access or subscribing creates no obligation for you or for us. You don’t commit to buy anything, and we don’t promise you access, a launch date, features or prices. You can unsubscribe at any time. How we handle your email address is described in the privacy policy.

If you send us ideas or feedback, we may use them without restriction or payment. Please don’t send us confidential information. We can’t treat unsolicited messages as confidential.

4. Using our content

  • Incident tracker and guardrail checklist. These are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). You may copy, adapt and share them, including commercially, if you credit Countermove (for example “Countermove incident tracker”), link to the source page and indicate any changes.
  • Everything else (text, scenarios, attack library, guides, design and code) is © Futurist IP, all rights reserved. You may quote reasonable excerpts with attribution to Countermove and a link to the page. Republishing whole pages, the scenario library or substantial parts of the site requires our written permission.
  • Third-party material. Quotes, court documents, regulations and other sources we cite belong to their owners and are not covered by our license. Follow the original source’s terms.

5. Acceptable use

When using the site, you agree not to:

  • scrape, crawl or download the site in a way that places an unreasonable load on it (normal search engine and AI crawling that follows our robots.txt is welcome);
  • attack the site or its providers, attempt to gain unauthorized access, interfere with its operation, or test its security outside our disclosure policy;
  • use the forms to send unsolicited email, to sign up people without their permission, or to submit automated or abusive messages;
  • use our attack families, scenarios or other content to attack, defraud or manipulate any system, agent or business you don’t own or aren’t authorized to test, including using these techniques to obtain refunds, discounts, credits or other value you aren’t entitled to;
  • use the site in breach of any law, or to misrepresent your affiliation with us.

We may block access to anyone who breaks these rules.

6. Scenarios, third-party names and links

Some scenarios are inspired by films, books or well-known situations. We describe them in our own words. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by their creators or rights holders. Product and company names on the site are trademarks of their owners and are used only to identify them. Their use doesn’t imply affiliation or endorsement.

Incidents describe documented public events and link to their sources. If you believe something we published is inaccurate, please send a correction.

Links to other sites are provided for reference. We don’t control those sites and aren’t responsible for their content, availability or privacy practices.

7. Disclaimers

The site and its content are provided “as is” and “as available”. To the extent the law allows, we make no warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of accuracy, completeness, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, or that the site will be available or error-free.

Content on the site is general information, not legal, compliance, regulatory, financial or security advice. Regulation summaries may be out of date and don’t cover every jurisdiction. Get advice from a qualified professional about your own situation. Examples, illustrative figures and the sample report are illustrative. They don’t describe real tests of real customers’ agents. Following our guides or checklist doesn’t guarantee that an agent is safe or compliant.

8. Limitation of liability

To the extent the law allows, Futurist IP and its directors, officers, employees and contractors will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profits, revenue, data or goodwill, arising from your use of, or inability to use, the site or its content, even if we were told such damages were possible.

Because the site is free, our total liability for all claims relating to the site is limited to CAD $100.

Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that can’t be excluded or limited by law, such as liability for fraud, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence. Nothing in these terms limits any rights you have under the consumer protection law that applies to you. If a provision of these terms can’t apply to you because of that law, it doesn’t, and the rest of these terms still do.

9. Indemnity

If you break section 5 (acceptable use), including by using our content to test or attack a system you aren’t authorized to test, you agree to cover the reasonable losses and costs, including legal fees, that Futurist IP incurs from third-party claims arising from that breach.

10. Governing law and courts

These terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Ontario and the federal laws of Canada applicable there, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. The courts located in Toronto, Ontario have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute about the site or these terms, and you and we submit to their jurisdiction. If you are a consumer, this choice of law and courts doesn’t take away the protection of the mandatory consumer laws of the place where you live, or any right you have to bring proceedings in the courts there.

11. General

If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. If we don’t enforce a term, we haven’t waived it. These terms, with the privacy policy, are the whole agreement between you and us about the site.

12. Changes

We may update these terms. We will post the new version here with a new effective date. Changes apply from that date to your use of the site after it, not to anything that happened before. Continuing to use the site after that means you accept them.

13. Contact

Questions about these terms: contact@countermove.xyz.

Futurist IP, Ontario, Canada.