Our Privacy Policy

It is the policy of HardwareSecrets.com to protect your privacy as a reader of this website. This Website does not collect personal information about you except for information that you voluntarily provide. All Personal information is treated confidentially however HardwareSecrets.com is not responsible for the information you volunteer about yourself in the course of discussions in our forums. We consider the following to be personal information: your name, address, phone number, date of birth, your e-mail address, when correlated to your name or address.

From time to time we set cookies; no personal information is gathered via these cookies. We use cookies to identify member’s computers so they don't have to re-enter a user id and/or passwords as long as they are using the same computer. We also use cookies to determind the number of unique readers that visit pur site. This information is aggrageted and used in our marketing material. We do not have control over cookies or pixel tags (used by advertisers to track traffic) that are placed by advertisers on their pages or advertisements. Some of our advertisers use cookie and pixel tags to measure the effectiveness of Web and e-mail advertisements. We do not give any personally identifiable information to them as part of this relationship.

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

Third Party Advertising

We use MaxOnline and other third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our Web site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please click here.

Third Party Cookies

In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique "cookie" on your browser.

Co-Branded Sites and Services

HardwareSecrets.com does have partners where we have cobranded pages. When you use these co-branded services the use of your information by our partners is subject to their applicable privacy policies.

Contests and Sweepstakes

HardwareSecrets.com periodically conducts contests and sweepstakes. If you choose to enter, the data you provide will be subject to the official rules of the specific contest, as well as this privacy policy.

Changes to the HardwareSecrets.com Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be modified from time to time. If there are changes, those changes are effective immediatly.