Terms and Conditions
PRIVACY POLICY
We value your privacy and this policy explains our practices about the way your information is collected and used. Your use of our site indicates you agree to or consent to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Policy please exit the site.
Personal Information
You are not required to provide any personal information to visit the High Tech Forum website. The personal information High Tech Forum collects about you is that which you voluntarily provide, such as your name and email address, if you sign up to be a part of High Tech Forum’s email list and to receive High Tech Forum’s alerts and updates. High Tech Forum may also collect additional information about you when you visit certain features on the site or certain pages of our partners when you interact with offers and advertisements, when you contact us for support, or when you log into the Services with your account.
High Tech Forum will not share, sell, trade, disclose or rent your personal information without your consent.
Non-personal Information
High Tech Forum does collect forms of non-personal information.
Examples include
- The type of domain from which you accessed the Internet
- The date and time you accessed the site
- The IP address from which you accessed the site
- The type of browser software used to view the site. This information does not contain information about a specific individual. High Tech Forum does not track a particular individual’s use of the site. Users remain anonymous unless they specifically provide personal information.
High Tech Forum uses this information to help provide better services to you, to gather certain demographic information and to provide information about any advertisements featured or presented on the site.
Cookies
A cookie is a small data file that web sites commonly write to the site visitor’s hard drive when a site is visited. A cookie file contains information that can identify a return visitor each time he or she visits our site. The data is encrypted for added security. This site may use cookies as a way to measure activity and traffic patterns on the site in order to continually improve the visitor’s experience. Cookies also provide visitors the convenience of not having to log in a password more than once on our site, thereby saving the visitor time while on our site.
A browser can be set to warn the users before accepting cookies. Users can choose to refuse cookies by turning them off in the browser. Users do not need to have cookies turned on to visit our site, but will need them to use certain customizable features on the site that we may launch in the future.
Shared Information
High Tech Forum reserves the right and you expressly authorize us to share any information we have about you:
(1) in response to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish, protect, or exercise our legal rights or to defend against legal claims;
(2) to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, fraud, or situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person or property;
(3) to investigate, prevent, or take action against voluminous spamming, service attacks, or attempts to compromise the security of information on the site; and
(4) if we are acquired by or merge with another entity.
External Links
Our site may contain links to other Internet web sites, and High Tech Forum is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of any linked websites.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
High Tech Forum reserves the right to change the terms of this policy at any time without any prior notice to you.
Contact Us
If you have questions about this privacy statement, please feel free to contact [email protected].
TERMS OF USE
By accessing this site you acknowledge and agree to the following Terms of Use. If you do not agree with the Terms of Use please exit this site.
We invite you to submit comments on our website. In order to keep this forum enjoyable and interesting, we require that you comply with the mandatory rules set forth herein.
- You agree not to submit inappropriate content, including but not limited to anything that:
- infringes upon or violates the copyrights, trademarks or other intellectual property
- rights of any person, association, business of other lawful organization
- is obscene, pornographic, or sexually explicit
- violates a person’s right to privacy
- violates any law
- advocates illegal or violent acts
- purposefully degrades others on the basis of gender, race, class, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual preference, or disability
- is predatory, hateful, or intended to intimidate or harass
- contains advertising or solicitation of any kind
- is fraudulent or deceitful regarding who you are or whom you might represent
- contains spyware, malware, software viruses, or any other computer code, files, or programs designed to interrupt, destroy, or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or equipment
- You understand and agree that High Tech Forum has the right, but not the obligation, to monitor submissions and may remove or permanently delete any content without a user’s consent if High Tech Forum determines in its unfettered and exclusive discretion that the posting violates these terms of use. You also agree that you alone are fully responsible for any and all content that you submit, and that High Tech Forum expressly is not responsible for content submitted by you or any others. High Tech Forum further reserves the right to revoke your privilege, or any other user’s privilege, to post content on the High Tech Forum site, regardless of cause. Concerning any content you post, you agree to indemnify High Tech Forum, its officers, and its members from and against any and all losses, expenses, damages, and costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, resulting from any claim brought by any third party relating to your posting.
- High Tech Forum does not represent, warrant, guaranty or endorse the accuracy or reliability of the content of any user posting. You acknowledge and accept that any use or reliance by you upon the information you obtain through any posting on the High Tech Forum site is made at your own risk.
- For any content that you submit, you expressly grant High Tech Forum an irrevocable and perpetual license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, incorporate into other works, distribute, perform, and display such content, in whole or in part in any form, media or technology now known or later developed.
High Tech Forum reserves the exclusive right to remove or permanently delete any content from the site without notice. High Tech Forum also reserves the exclusive right to terminate or restrict your access to a service if your use may violate any laws, regulations or rulings, infringe upon another person’s rights or violate the terms of this policy. If High Tech Forum becomes aware of any breach of this policy or the foregoing rules High Tech Forum will investigate and may work with law enforcement authorities in such investigations and for the purpose of prosecuting offenders.
We may provide links to third party websites or resources on the site. You acknowledge and agree that High Tech Forum is not responsible or liable for the availability or accuracy of such third party sites. You acknowledge sole responsibility for and assume all risk arising from your use of any such websites or resources. You agree that High Tech Forum does not endorse, High Tech Forum is not responsible for, and High Tech Forum does not control those websites, services and software.
High Tech Forum disclaims all warranties and conditions with regard to content provided by third parties including third party content and content on third party links, including all implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.
Children
Our Website is not intended for use by children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 should provide any information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under age 18. If we determine that we have collected or received personal information from a child under age 18 years without that child’s parental consent, we will delete that information.
DMCA Takedown Notice
Pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Title 17, United States Code, Section 512(c)(2) (“DMCA”), notifications of claimed copyright infringement by third parties should be sent to this Site’s Designated Agent. If you believe that your copyrighted work has been infringed under U.S. copyright law and is accessible on the Site, please notify us by contacting our Designated Agent [email protected]. Even if you believe that the alleged infringing work was not posted by a third party, please send all notifications of claimed copyright infringement to Site’s Designated Agent.
To be effective under the DMCA, notification of claims of copyright infringement by third parties must be a written communication to Site’s Designated Agent that includes the following:
- A physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed;
- Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online site are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that site;
- Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit Site to locate the material;
- Information reasonably sufficient to permit Site to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number, and, if available, an electronic mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted;
- A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
- A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
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