document: title: privacy and terms
text: Privacy Policy, Terms and Conditions of HotHardware.com, LLC.   
  
HotHardware.com takes your privacy seriously. Our privacy policy is designed to help you understand the terms and conditions surrounding the collection and use of the information we collect. We encourage you to read our full privacy policy, below:   
  
Information Collected  
HotHardware.com does not collect any personally identifiable information about individuals, except when such information is voluntarily submitted by the user.  
In common with many websites, HotHardware.com automatically logs certain non-personally identifiable information about visits to our websites. This information is used for system administration and for producing usage statistics.  
We do collect email addresses from individuals that wish to take advantage of special promotional offers, but we do not sell, rent or disclose collected email addresses to third parties.

Cookies  
As you browse HotHardware.com sites, we place "cookies" on your hard drive to show which source (search engine and keywords, newsletter or site notification, pay-per-click ad and so on) you used to find our site. We do not use cookies to track single-user data.  


Opt-Out Policy  
HotHardware.com gives users options to opt out wherever practical; such choices include:  
• Opting not to receive our electronic newsletters when registering for a site  
• Opting not to receive review site notifications  


Unsubscribe Policy  
Users may unsubscribe from any of our electronic newsletters or site notifications at any time by following the instructions contained at the end of each newsletter or notification.  


Use of Collected Information  
Collecting the information described above enables us to tailor our content to our readers' needs.

Third Party Partners  
HotHardware.com has teamed up with reputable third party vendors in order to provide certain services to its online users. When leaving our website to view one of our partner websites, we encourage users to review the privacy statements of those websites as we cannot guarantee the privacy of users while visiting affiliate sites. HotHardware.com may use third-party companies to serve ads or analyze behavior patterns when you visit our Web site. These companies may place or provide ads (such as banner ads) on this Web site that might also place cookies. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information about your visit to our Web site in order to help us improve our user experience and/or provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you. In the course of providing these services or placing these ads, these third-party companies may place or recognize a unique "cookie" on your computer and each of these companies uses this cookie information according to their own privacy and security policies.   


Acceptance of Terms  
By using the HotHardware.com website, you signify your acceptance of this website privacy policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use this site. Your continued use of any HotHardware.com site following the posting of changes to these terms will indicate your acceptance of those changes.

If you have questions about our privacy or legal policies, contact the Editor In Chief via email:  
davea@hothardware.com