Conditions of Use & Liability Notice

PLEASE READ THIS FIRST

This notice is issued by PF SECURED (“we”, “us”, “our”). It explains, in plain language, the conditions on which your device and any related products or services are supplied — and where responsibility sits once the device is in your hands. By activating or using your device, you accept these conditions. If you do not accept them, contact us before using the device for a refund.

WHAT THIS DEVICE IS — AND IS NOT

Your device is a standard consumer smartphone, privately configured by PF SECURED with GrapheneOS, an independent, open-source privacy and security operating system. It is a general-purpose consumer product, sold openly, and it is intended for one thing only: lawful personal and business use — protecting your data, your communications and your privacy against malware, theft, scams and unauthorised access.

It is not designed, supplied, configured or intended for concealing, committing or facilitating unlawful activity of any kind. It is not a tool for evading the law, and we do not supply it as one.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITY — IN FULL

From the moment this device is supplied to you, you alone control it, and you alone are responsible for everything done with it. That includes, without limitation:

• Every use you make of it — every call, message, photograph, recording, transaction, download and communication sent, received or stored on the device;
• Every app and service you choose to install or access, and your compliance with the terms and laws that govern them;
• Everyone you permit to use the device — if you lend it, supply it, or pass it on, you remain responsible for that choice;
• Every place you take it — including compliance with the laws of any other country you carry it to or use it in;
• Every modification you make after supply — software you flash, settings you change, features you disable;
• Compliance with all applicable laws — Australian federal, state and territory laws, and the laws of any other place of use, including laws on digital communications, data protection, telecommunications, surveillance and cybersecurity.

Put simply: we supply the device. What is done with it after that is your act, your choice and your legal responsibility — not ours.

UNLAWFUL USE — ZERO TOLERANCE, ZERO LIABILITY

All security, privacy and encryption features of this device must be used only in a lawful manner. They must never be used to conceal, commit or facilitate unlawful activity. Without limiting that, you must not use this device or any related product or service to:

• plan, commit, further or conceal any criminal offence;
• menace, harass, stalk, defraud or deceive any person;
• intercept, record or monitor another person's communications without lawful authority;
• store, transmit or access unlawful material of any kind;
• evade a lawful order, warrant, investigation or legal obligation; or
• supply the device to any person you know or suspect intends any of the above.

Any unlawful or improper use is entirely outside the intended purpose of this product. The manufacturer and the seller accept no liability whatsoever for any misuse or unlawful use of this device, and no such use is authorised, endorsed, supported or foreseen by us in supplying it.

THE LAWS THAT APPLY TO YOUR USE

Your obligations under this notice are not abstract. The laws of every Australian jurisdiction — and of any other country you take this device to — apply to your use of it, and complying with every one of them is your responsibility, not ours.

Commonwealth of Australia

The laws of the Commonwealth apply to your use of this device throughout Australia — including criminal law, telecommunications and interception law, surveillance law, lawful access and assistance laws (under which courts can compel access to devices, and refusal is a serious offence), privacy law, consumer law and export control law.

Compliance with all applicable Commonwealth laws is your responsibility.

Every state and territory

Each state and territory has its own criminal law, surveillance and listening devices law, and police powers legislation — including laws compelling access to devices under warrant, and in some jurisdictions specific offences relating to encrypted devices used in connection with crime. These laws apply to you whenever you are there. Compliance with the laws of:

• New South Wales
• Victoria
• Queensland
• South Australia
• Western Australia
• Tasmania
• Australian Capital Territory
• Northern Territory

— in each case as in force from time to time — is your responsibility, in whichever state or territory you use this device.

Wherever you are in Australia, the law travels with you.

Recording conversations, monitoring others, accessing systems without authority, or using this device in connection with any offence is regulated or criminalised in every Australian jurisdiction — and using an encrypted device does not change that in any way.

International use and other jurisdictions

If you take this device to, or use it in, any other country, the laws of that country apply to you and to the device — including its criminal law, telecommunications law, border examination powers, and any laws restricting or prohibiting encryption or VPNs. Some countries ban or license civilian encryption entirely; penalties can include seizure, fines and imprisonment. If you take or send this device overseas, you are the exporter and must also comply with Australian export and sanctions law.

Some offences apply to conduct committed abroad — leaving Australia does not always leave Australian law behind.

Checking and complying with the current law of every jurisdiction in which you use this device — Australian or foreign — is your responsibility alone. We accept no liability for any consequence of your failure to do so.