Privacy Statement and Terms of Service for Hardware Asylum

• Hardware Asylum has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for this website.

• Information Automatically Logged

  hardwareasylum.com only collects information that is freely obtainable from anyone accessing this website. The information includes but is not limited to, IP address, browser information, cookies, session information, and user submitted content. Every attempt has been taken to ensure that your personal information is kept safe and will not be sold under any circumstances.

• Cookies

  This site uses cookies to gather broad browsing habits of our readers including when they last visited. Cookies can also be used to save your login information so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit our site. Persistent cookie information is stored in an encoded format for security purposes.

• Advertisers

  When applicable we use an outside ad company to display ads on our site. These ads may contain cookies. While we use cookies in other parts of our website we have no control over the cookies used by our ad company.

• Surveys

  Our online surveys do not store any information that isn't freely given by the user and their browser and is only used for survey tracking purposes.

• External Links

  This site contains links to other sites. Hardware Asylum is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.

• Public Forums

  This site makes forums, and message boards available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information. You should exercise caution when posting in these areas as any personal information can be collected by an outside source. (it might even be Google)

• Children's Guidelines

  This site DOES NOT MEET the Online Privacy Protection Act guidelines
  The following criteria are violated:

  • This site allows children to post or distribute any personally identifiable information without first obtaining verifiable parental consent.
  • This site does not provide children notice of what information is collected.
  • This site does not encourage children to get their parent's permission before sharing personal information online.
  • This site does not require/allow the parent to obtain the information collected from the child and provide a way for the parent to prevent the future use of that information.

• Contacting the Web Site

  If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact:

Terms of Use

• Copyright

  All content included on this site, such as text, graphics, images, photographs, audio clips, digital clips, logos, is the property of Hardware Asylum and is protected by both United States and International copyright laws. Any copying, downloading, reproduction, or other use of any information contained on the site may be punishable as a criminal offense as provided in 18 U.S.C. Section 2319.Trademarks: United States
  Any other trademark that appears on this site is owned by its respective owner(s).

• Site Access

  Hardware Asylum hereby grants you a license to access the site and use the site for personal use only. If you exceed this authority, you may be reported to the proper law enforcement authorities for violations of applicable statutes regarding access, including 18 U.S.C. Section 1030. You may not download any material (except for page caching) from the site, nor edit nor modify any portion of the information on the site without express written permission from Hardware Asylum. You agree that you will not reproduce any of the material contained on the web site in any manner, including mechanical, digital or electronic reproduction, without the express written consent of Hardware Asylum. In no event shall any of the information contained on this site be used for commercial purposes without the express written consent of Hardware Asylum. You may not frame or use similar techniques for information contained on this web site.