Responsible Disclosure Policy

We take the security of our systems seriously, and we value the security community. The responsible disclosure of security vulnerabilities helps us ensure the security and privacy of our users.

Guidelines

We require that all researchers:

• Make every effort to avoid privacy violations, degradation of user experience, disruption to production systems, and destruction of data during security testing;
• Perform research only within the scope set out below;
• Use the identified communication channels to report vulnerability information to us, following the guidelines below;
• Keep information about any vulnerabilities you’ve discovered confidential between yourself and Childcare.co.uk until we’ve had 90 days to resolve the issue;
• Seek permission before running any Vulnerability Scanners at a large scale;
• Create no more than 2 accounts; and
• Only interact with accounts they have created.

If you follow these guidelines when reporting an issue to us, we commit to:

• Not pursue or support any legal action related to your research;
• Work with you to understand and resolve the issue quickly (including an initial confirmation of your report within 72 hours of submission);
• Recognize your contribution on our Security Researcher Hall of Fame and at our discretion, offer you a cash or voucher reward, if you are the first to report the issue and we make a code or configuration change based on the issue. As a general guide, we offer rewards for findings rated P1 - P3 on the Bugcrowd Vulnerability Rating Taxonomy, but this will be at our discretion based on the findings.

We will only respond to reports where the above guidelines have been followed in their entirety.

Scope

• Childcare.co.uk and any subdomains
• Childcare.co.uk iOS and Android apps

Out of scope

Any services hosted by 3rd party providers and services are excluded from scope.

In the interest of the safety of our users, staff, the Internet at large and you as a security researcher, the following test types are excluded from scope:

• Findings from physical testing such as office access (e.g. open doors, tailgating)
• Findings that require physical access to a user's device
• Findings derived primarily from social engineering (e.g. phishing, vishing)
• Findings from applications or systems not listed in the ‘Scope’ section
• UI and UX bugs and spelling mistakes
• Network level Denial of Service (DoS/DDoS) vulnerabilities
• SPF/DKIM/DMARC mis-configuration

Things we do not want to receive:

• Personally identifiable information (PII)
• Credit card holder data

How to report a security vulnerability?

If you believe you’ve found a security vulnerability in one of our products or platforms please send it to us by emailing security@childcare.co.uk. Please include the following details with your report:

• Description of the location and potential impact of the vulnerability;
• A detailed description of the steps required to reproduce the vulnerability (POC scripts, screenshots, and compressed screen captures are all helpful to us, lots of output from automated scripts and scanners are not helpful);
• Your name/handle for recognition in our Hall of Fame.
• Your estimated rating of the vulnerability based on the Bugcrowd Vulnerability Rating Taxonomy

If you’d like to encrypt the information, please use our PGP Key. The fingerprint is 2209 9D03 860D 9ABF 1546 AA53 4546 86A4 7DC4 0798.

Hall of Fame

2024

• Tanya Goyal

2023

• Zain Iqbal
• Aditya Singh 

2022

• Durvesh Kolhe
• Jai Niresh J
• PagaRecon

2021

• Santosh Kumar Sha
• Yassine Nafiai

2020

• Prateek Thakare
• Ninad Mathpati
• Keshav Malik
• Vineet Sadawari
• Premsai Kududula
• Gaurav Solanki
• Priyanka Jangid and Vijeta
• Mohammad Aurangzaib

2019

• Ali Razzaq
• Hx01
• iambharat18
• Sumit Jain
• Deepak Holani
• Ashish Kunwar
• Pal Patel