Terms of Use

Customer shall assume at time of purchase that all materials on the Site are protected by copyrights unless otherwise noted within site materials. This information may not be used unless otherwise permitted in these Terms of Use or noted by other means. Except as stated herein, none of the materials may be copied, reproduced, distributed, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted or transmitted in any form or by any means, including, but not limited to electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of homePCbuddy.

Our site has in place the necessary means to keep your information safe.  The use of this site is at your own risk and homePCbuddy shall not be held responsible.  We make no warranties to the accuracy of manufacturers data and stats. homePCbuddy specifically disclaims any liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in the content on the Site. Neither homePCbuddy nor any other party involved in creating, producing, or delivering the Site is liable for any direct, incidental, consequential, indirect, or punitive damages arising out of your access to, or use of, or inability to use or access, the Site.

All prices are subject to change without notice. For all prices, products and offers, homePCbuddy reserves the right to make adjustments due to changing market conditions, product discontinuation, manufacturer price changes, errors in advertisements and other extenuating circumstances.  With that, price matches to our products are not given.  Final price is so.  However homePCbuddy does reserve the right to price match a prior purchase as we feel necessary though this does not guarantee your price match on a sale.

homePCbuddy will attempt to price match a competitor.  Price matches are not guaranteed.  Please provide us a detailed comparison with that of the competitors.

Features and specifications of products described or depicted on the Site are subject to change at any time without notice. All monitor screen images contained in this database for our site are simulated pictures unless otherwise indicated.

homePCbuddy assumes no responsibility, and shall not be liable for, any damages to, or viruses that may infect, your computer equipment or other property on account of your access to, use of, or browsing in the Site or your downloading of any materials, data, text, images or multimedia content from the Site.

Materials displayed on the Site are either the property of, or used with permission by homePCbuddy. The use of these materials by you, or anyone else authorized by you, is prohibited unless specifically permitted by these Terms of Use or specific permission is provided elsewhere on the Site. Any unauthorized use of the images may violate copyright laws, trademark laws, the laws of privacy and publicity, and civil and criminal statues.

homePCbuddy is not responsible for the content of any site linked to or from the Site. Your linking to any other site is entirely at your own risk. While homePCbuddy may provide links on this Site to other sites, the inclusion of such links is for your convenience only and should not be interpreted as an endorsement of the owner/sponsor of the site or the content of the site. homePCbuddy disclaims all warranties, express and implied, as to the accuracy, validity, legality or otherwise of any materials or information contained on such sites.

homePCbuddy is not responsible for manufacturer warranties.  All warranties must be processed through the products manufacturer unless otherwise stated.

homePCbuddy reserves the right to change the time frame status on your order due to part availability through our vendors.

Terms of Use Revisions

homePCbuddy may at any time revise these Terms of Use by updating this posting. By using this Site, you agree to be bound by any such revisions and should therefore periodically visit this page to determine the then current Terms of Use to which you are bound.

Trademarks

Any Trademarks used on the Site are trademarks of homePCbuddy or their respective owners. Nothing contained on the Site should be construed as granting, by implication or otherwise without the written permission of homePCbuddy or third party owner.

Legal Disclaimer

homePCbuddy maintains this site ("the Site") for your information, education, and communication. Please feel free to browse the Site. If you are browsing this Site as a non-commercial consumer, you may download material displayed on the Site for your non-commercial, personal use only. If you are browsing the Site as an employee/agent/member of any business or organization, you may download materials displayed on the Site only for non-commercial purposes within your business or organization. This permission is specifically conditioned on your retaining of all copyright and other proprietary notices contained in the materials. Additionally, you may not distribute or transmit (except, within your business or organization), modify, reuse, report, or use the contents of the Site for public or commercial purposes, including the text, images, audio, and video without Sconti's written permission.

Your access and use of the Site is also subject to the Terms of Use and all applicable laws. By accessing and browsing the Site, you accept, without limitation or qualification, the above listed Terms of Use.

Limitation of Liability

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, NEGLIGENCE, SHALL homPCbuddy BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LOSS OF DATA OR PROFIT, ARISING OUT OF THE USE, OR THE INABILITY TO USE, THE MATERIALS ON THIS SITE, EVEN IF homPCbuddy OR AN homPCbuddy AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IF YOUR USE OF MATERIALS FROM THIS SITE RESULTS IN THE NEED FOR SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION OF EQUIPMENT OR DATA, YOU ASSUME ANY COSTS THEREOF. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

 Privacy Policy Statement

We are committed to safeguarding your privacy online. This privacy policy applies to your information that we collect and receive; it does not apply to practices of businesses that we do not own or control or people we do not employ. At no time will we sell your information or release your personally-identifiable data without your permission. You can visit this Site without revealing who you are or providing any personal information about yourself.

By using this Site, you agree to the terms of this privacy policy. Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated as you use our services. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices.

This Site may contain links to other sites. These include links to resources in related topics and third-party sites that offer other related products. If you visit another website through a link on our site, please consult the privacy policy of the website you are visiting. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other websites that you may visit.

The sites information and design can change from time to time without notice.

Browsing the Site

If you browse through the Site without entering any personal data, we will gather and store certain information about your visit. This information does not identify you personally and cannot be linked back to you unless you decide at some point to identify yourself. If you are only browsing, we collect the following information: IP address, the type of browser and operating system used to access our site, the date and time you access our site, the pages you visit (click-through), and if you linked to our website from another website, the address of that website as well as additional information related to your visit. We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer the Site.

Information Collected

We may collect the email addresses of consumers who communicate with us or through our authorized vendors via email.

Any information provided by consumers becomes our property once received by us and may be used and disclosed as permitted in this Policy.

We may share your personal information with our affiliated companies in order to identify products or services in which you may have interest, to improve our user experience and generally to engage in market research and for other internal business purposes. We may also aggregate your personal information with others' information and prepare reports on site usage, purchase history or other factors for sale or distribution to others. Those reports are aggregated and include no personally identifying information. Finally, we may use your personal information to send you email or postal communications regarding products or services offered by us or by third parties with whom we have relationships in which we think you may be interested. We do not share, sell, trade or rent your personal information to third parties for unknown reasons. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we may continue to contact you for the purpose of communicating information relating to this Site, as well as to facilitate, complete, or confirm any transaction that you may enter into or responding to your inquiry or request.

If you are interested in more information or have a question on the policy, please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Use of Forums

If you choose to transmit, submit or post information through the Site's forum (the "Tech Forum"), we will collect that information you provide. We retain this information as necessary to resolve disputes, provide customer support and troubleshoot problems as permitted by law and pursuant to our Terms of Use.

Global Forum Rules

1. Staff decisions are final. Ultimately, staff has complete discretion over what is and is not acceptable on the site.
2. Public discussions of staff decisions are not permitted on the site.  This may result in banishment or cancelation of service. If you have any concerns or queries relating to a staff decision, please take it up in private with a member of the site administration team.
3. All members must be treated in a respectful and adult manner. All members should respect and adhere to the promotion of harmony within the community. Do not attempt to disrupt the community in any way.
4. No "Flaming". Please do not post any messages that harass, insult, belittle, threaten or flame another member or guest.
5. No "Trolling". Please do not post any topic that disrupts the peace and harmony of this board. Don't create meaningless threads with the sole purpose of starting a dispute. This includes messages in profiles and signatures.
6. No "Spamming". Please do not double post or cross-post the same message in multiple forums. You will not mass-PM or mass-email multiple members of this site with the same message. You will not post for the sake of increasing your post count or "install" count.
7. No "Bumping" (Your threads/posts): Please do not repeatedly bump your threads to try and get attention. Most members of the site are not online 24 hours a day and so will not see your post the instant it is made. Do not bump a thread within 24 hours, and not more than twice a week.
8. No "Bumping" (Other’s threads/posts): Before replying to a thread, take notice of the last post date. Try and avoid replying to posts more than 6 months old. If you have a similar question and cannot find the answer, create your own thread.
9. No Offensive Material Please do not post messages that are obscene, vulgar, sexually-orientated, hateful, threatening, racist, sexist, discriminatory, and/or otherwise violate of any local or international laws. This includes links in your signature, profile, posted images, photos and avatars. Staff will ultimately decide if something is appropriate or not.  Please note that this is a PG-13 rated site and therefore is meant to suitable for all ages, including under 13s with parental guidance/permission.
10. No spreading of any copyrighted material is to take place on this site without the expressed permission of the copyright holder, which must be attached to the material. Any copyrighted code snippets should be no more than 10 lines in length, unless approved by a member of Staff.
11. No copying site material for personal use.
12. No posting messages anywhere on this site that are primarily for the promotion or advertising of any website, forums, email address, business, MLM, activity, or other entities that you have an affiliation with (ie. no self-promotion) without consent from a staff member or administrator.
13. Your threads, posts, profile, etc. can be altered by an administrator without your permission.  You will be notified if a change is made.  Changes are usually made due to an infraction of a policy or rule.

Signature Rules

1. Staff will ultimately decide if something is appropriate or not.
2. No signatures may include a message intending to disrupt the peace and harmony of this board.
3. No signatures may include text or images that are obscene, vulgar, sexually-orientated, hateful, threatening, racist, sexist, discriminatory, and/or otherwise violates of any local or international laws.
4. No signatures may have promotional language* or offers for paid services. You may include a link (no text) to a page offering paid services.
5. Links to your site are fine. A site name with a link to the main index page or forum page is all that is needed.
6. No signatures may have more than 2 external links - otherwise it will be considered as SPAM and removed by our staff.

Cookies

We may place "cookies" on your personal computer. "Cookies" are small identifiers sent from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive, similar to a license plate, that help us to recognize you if you visit our website again. Also, our site uses cookies to track how you found our site. Cookies are not designed to be used to get data from your hard drive, your e-mail or any other personal data about you. To protect your privacy, we do not use cookies to store or transmit any personal information about you on the Internet. You can reject cookies by changing your browser settings. Please note, however, that if you reject our cookies it is possible that some web pages may not properly load, your access to certain information might be denied or you might have to enter information about yourself more than once.

Security

This site has reasonable security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control.  All information is backed up for security purposes.

Third Party Advertising

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies use non-personally identifiable information regarding your visit to this website and other sites, such as the user IP address, pages viewed, date and time of your visit, and number of times you have viewed an ad (but not your name, address, or other personal information), to serve ads to you on this site and other sites that may be of interest to you. In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser.

Contacting the Web Site

Please be aware that we may change our Privacy Policy from time to time. If we do, we will update this Privacy Policy at our website, so be sure to check back here frequently.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

-homePCbuddy