Security

How we protect the service

• Encryption in transit. TLS on every connection, with HTTP requests redirected to HTTPS.
• Password handling. Hashed with a modern adaptive algorithm and never stored, logged or transmitted in readable form. We cannot tell you your password because we do not know it.
• Two-factor authentication is available on accounts and enforced for administrative access.
• Least privilege. Administrative access is role-scoped and logged.
• Patching. Servers and dependencies are updated on a routine schedule, and out of band for anything critical.
• Payment isolation. Card details go directly to the payment processor. There is no card data on our infrastructure to compromise.
• Minimal retention. Prompts are not persisted and logs rotate within 30 days. The strongest protection for data is not holding it.

Reporting a vulnerability

Email security@aitoolsay.com. A machine-readable version of this policy is published at /.well-known/security.txt.

Please include:

• The affected URL or endpoint.
• What the issue is, and what an attacker could achieve with it.
• Steps to reproduce — a proof of concept helps enormously.
• Any output, screenshots or request/response pairs that show it.
• How you would like to be credited, if you would like to be.

What happens next

1. Acknowledgement within 2 business days, from a person.
2. Triage and severity assessment within 5 business days, with our reasoning.
3. A remediation timeline — critical issues are worked immediately, and we tell you if something will take longer than expected rather than going quiet.
4. Confirmation when it is fixed, and an invitation to verify.
5. Credit where you want it, once the fix is live.

Safe harbour

If you make a good-faith effort to comply with this policy during your research, we will:

• Consider your research authorised under applicable anti-hacking law.
• Not pursue or support legal action against you in relation to it.
• Work with you to understand and resolve the issue quickly.
• Recognise your contribution publicly if you want that.

If a third party brings action against you for research conducted in line with this policy, we will make it clear that your activity was authorised. We would rather hear about a flaw from you than read about it later.

In scope

• aitoolsay.com and its subdomains.
• The public web application, its APIs, and the authentication and payment flows.

Issues we particularly want to hear about: authentication or authorisation bypass, injection, remote code execution, server-side request forgery, exposure of another user's data, insecure direct object references, stored cross-site scripting, and anything touching payment integrity.

Out of scope

Not because they do not matter, but because reporting them costs us both time:

• Denial of service, volumetric testing or anything degrading the service for other people.
• Social engineering of our staff, users or providers, and physical attacks.
• Automated scanner output with no demonstrated impact.
• Missing best-practice headers with no exploitable consequence.
• Reports about third-party services we merely consume — take those to the provider.
• Self-XSS, clickjacking on pages with no state-changing action, or missing rate limits with no security impact.
• Outdated version banners without a working exploit against our deployment.

Rules of engagement

• Use your own accounts and test data. Never access, modify or retain another person's data.
• Stop at proof. Once you have demonstrated a vulnerability, stop — do not pivot, escalate or persist.
• Do not exfiltrate. If you encounter personal data, stop immediately and tell us what you saw so we can assess exposure.
• Do not disrupt. No destruction, no degradation, no interruption of the service for others.
• Give us time. Please allow 90 days before public disclosure, or less by agreement if the fix ships sooner.

Rewards

We do not currently run a paid bug bounty. We offer public credit, a written acknowledgement you can cite, and a genuinely fast, respectful process. We would rather be honest about that up front than imply a payout that is not there.

If you are a user, not a researcher

If you think your account has been compromised, or you have received something suspicious claiming to be from us, write to security@aitoolsay.com straight away. We would much rather look at ten false alarms than miss one real incident.

Breach notification

If a breach affects your personal data, we notify the relevant supervisory authority within 72 hours where the law requires it, and tell affected people directly where there is a high risk to their rights. What we know, what we do not yet know, and what we are doing about it.

Contact

Security reports: security@aitoolsay.com. Everything else: the contact page.