About this site

Threat Guard is an informational site about consumer device security, written for readers in Australia and published by a company registered in the Czech Republic. This page states who that is, how the material is decided, and what the site is paid for.

The publisher

Threat Guard is published by:

CC Imports s.r.o.
Nademlejnská 600/1, Hloubětín, 198 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic
Company number: 08427577
VAT: CZ08427577
info@threat-guard.site

Correspondence is welcome at that address, in writing. There is no telephone line for this site, and no other contact route: everything is handled by email, which is described on the contact page.

What the site is, and is not

It is a single, sequenced guide to one subject: understanding, choosing, installing and living with consumer security software, plus the habits and reporting routes that surround it. It is published as a set of six steps and a glossary, and it is meant to be read rather than browsed for a product recommendation.

It is not a news publication, a laboratory, or a review site with scores. There are no bylines here, no author personas and no invented team, because the material is written and maintained by the publisher's own editorial team rather than by named individuals presented as experts. There are no reader testimonials, no star ratings and no awards, because we have none to report and inventing them would be both dishonest and, under Australian Consumer Law, actionable.

How coverage is decided — the method, stated honestly

Three rules govern what appears here, and they are worth reading before you weigh anything else on the site.

The educational material is written first and independently of any commercial arrangement. The six steps describe the category in general and apply equally to products we earn nothing from, including the free tools already installed on your devices. Much of the site — the whole of steps two, five and six in particular — points readers away from spending money.

The commercial coverage is deliberately narrow, and we say so rather than implying breadth. One product is linked commercially: TotalAV. It is linked because the publisher holds an affiliate arrangement covering it, not because it won a comparison. We do not survey the market, we publish no rankings, and where we discuss what to look for in a product we give criteria rather than a verdict, so that the same reasoning works for vendors we have no relationship with.

We publish no figure we cannot source. No detection rates, no test scores, no numbers of threats blocked, no prices. Prices and inclusions belong to the vendor, change frequently, and are only accurate at their source, so we send readers there to read them. Where a factual claim about risk or law appears, it is either phrased as general guidance or it links to the Australian body that says it.

If the commercial arrangement changes — a second vendor added, or this one ended — this page and the affiliate disclosure are updated as part of the same change.

What the site refuses to do

• No simulated scans, fake alerts, progress bars or dialogues dressed up as your operating system. A web page cannot know the state of your device, and anything that pretends otherwise is manipulating you.
• No urgency: no countdowns, no stock counters, no offer that expires while you read.
• No claim that you are obliged, legally or otherwise, to buy security software.
• No data collection. There is no form on this site, no newsletter, no account and no chat widget, so there is no reader data in existence to lose.
• No tracking. No analytics, no advertising pixels, no third-party scripts, no cookies, nothing written to your browser's storage — which is also why you have not seen a consent banner.

How pages are maintained

Each page carries a "last reviewed" date in the footer, and the date changes when the page is actually re-read and corrected rather than when a word is moved. Because the site avoids product specifics that age badly — prices, version numbers, feature matrices — most corrections concern platform behaviour, the names of interface settings, and the reporting routes on Australian government sites.

If you find something inaccurate or out of date, the most useful thing you can do is write to us with the page address and what is wrong. Corrections from readers are the main way errors on a site this size get found.

Sources we point to

Where Australian readers need authoritative material, we link the responsible body directly rather than paraphrasing it: the Australian Cyber Security Centre for security guidance and cybercrime reporting, Scamwatch for scam reporting, the eSafety Commissioner for online safety and harm, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner for privacy, and the ACCC for consumer rights.