Thank you for your work in helping keep Standard Notes safe and secure. If you believe you've found a security issue in our product, we encourage you to notify us. We welcome working with you to resolve the issue promptly.

# Disclosure Policy

- Let us know as soon as possible upon discovery of a potential security issue, and we'll make every
  effort to quickly resolve the issue. Please email [security@standardnotes.org](mailto:security@standardnotes.org) for a direct response.
- Provide us a reasonable amount of time to resolve the issue before any disclosure to the public or a
  third-party. We may publicly disclose the issue before resolving it, if appropriate. 
- Make a good faith effort to avoid privacy violations, destruction of data, and interruption or
  degradation of our service. Only interact with accounts you own or with explicit permission of the
  account holder.

# In-scope

- Security issues in any current release of Standard Notes. Our product downloads are available on our homepage at https://standardnotes.org, and our source code is available at https://github.com/standardnotes.

# Exclusions

The following bug classes are out-of scope:

- Bugs that are already reported on any of Standard Notes' issue trackers (https://github.com/standardnotes), or that we already know of.
- Issues in an upstream software dependency (ex: Electron, React Native) which are already reported to the upstream maintainer.
- Attacks requiring physical access to a user's device.
- Self-XSS
- Issues related to software or protocols not under SN's control
- Vulnerabilities in outdated versions of Standard Notes
- Missing security best practices that do not directly lead to a vulnerability
- Issues that do not have any impact on the general public

While researching, we'd like to ask you to refrain from:

- Denial of service
- Spamming
- Social engineering (including phishing) of Standard Notes' staff or contractors
- Any physical attempts against Standard Notes' property or data centers

Thank you for helping keep Standard Notes secure!
