About Thisislegal.com

As taken from the homepage: "Welcome to Thisislegal, a hacker wargames site but also with much more - such as forums and tutorials. The aim of the site is to help you improve as much as we can and also provide a community with a chance to chat. The site is also up for suggestions for improvement, got an idea? Suggest it and if we like it the site will be updated. Also any submissions like challenges or tutorials are welcomed."

Our aim is to help web masters improve their website's security or help individuals just starting out with developing their own projects and have some fun while at it :)

Legal Disclaimer (as of 5/4/12)

Thisislegal.com does not endorse or condone any form of illegal activities or any related content. Any "hacking" related information posted on this website is only meant for educational purposes and about protecting one's own network, provided in a rather playful manner. Using any information found here for illegal purposes is strongly discouraged. This is not the place to teach you how to "hack". If that is what you are looking for then we can recommend a good old friend, google, and wish you a nice day.

Thisislegal.com and its admins are not responsible for any user submitted content or links that point to third-party illegal or copyrighted material. That said, if any questionable material is found posted on the site it may be immediately removed without any notice. If you own copyrights to anything posted on Thisislegal.com without your permission, feel free to contact us using the contact page.

The challenges on Thisislegal.com are built for testing and entertainment purposes and one shouldn't try to use those techniques on the website itself, or any other websites for that matter. Such activities are illegal and totally unacceptable on Thisislegal.

We deserve the right to add, remove or change any content as needed, including this Disclaimer. Anything is subject to change without notice.

By using Thisislegal.com, you choose to agree with the above terms and practice them.

Privacy

When visiting this website, there is some information made available to us: Your operating system, your internet browser, date and time, IP address and localhost, the referral page, and if you are a regular visitor, cookies. We might log that information for optimization purposes. Anything submitted to us using a form in the website or the forums will be recorded. If you are a member, some of your actions will be recorded - for example solving a challenge.

Thisislegal.com and its admins will never ask for your password or any other sensitive information. Passwords are encrypted when they are first submitted to the website anyway so we really have no access to them. Upon creating an account, you are sharing some basic account details. We do not share any private account information of our members, but bare in mind that there is some information that will be publicly available on the "User Profile" page when you supply us with it, like your country or your avatar. Also notice that any challenge related information will be publicly available too, like your ranking or challenge progress.

We are using third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use anonymous information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. Also we are trying our best to make sure we provide legitimate ads to our users.