Privacy, Terms, Conditions and Copyright Policy of Hot Hardware, Inc.
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 directly 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 and our mailing lists, but we do not sell, rent or disclose collected email addresses to third parties.
When you use our website and enter your email address on our website (either to log in, or sign up for a newsletter, or similar), we may share with solution providers and its group companies information that we collect from you, such as your email (in hashed, pseudonymous form), IP address, or information about your browser or operating system, with any of the following, acting as “joint controllers” (as applicable and defined in the GDPR).
This Site is also affiliated with Adapex Inc for the purposes of placing advertising on the site, and Adapex Inc will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. Learn more about Adapex’s data usage here.
We may automatically collect information using “cookies.” Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive by a website. Among other things, cookies help us improve our services and your experience. We use cookies to see which areas and features are popular and to count visits to our services. Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove cookies and to reject cookies. If you choose to remove cookies or reject cookies, this could affect certain features or services of our Services.
HotHardware, Inc partners and 3rd party contractors may collect information using web beacons (also known as pixel tags). Web beacons are electronic images that may be used on our Services or in our emails. We use web beacons to deliver cookies, count visits, understand usage and campaign effectiveness or to tell if an email has been opened and acted upon.
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
- Refusing cookies which may affect site and service functionality or disable it completely
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. Users may also unsubscribe from browser push notifications at any time via the following methods:
- Navigate to the website you'd like to stop receiving notifications on.
- Click the Lock Icon located next to the URL address bar.
- Change the Notification permission from Allow to Block.
- Navigate to the website you'd like to stop receiving notifications on.
- Find the settings or preferences for your device's browser.
- Within those settings, find the settings for Notifications.
- Find the website you'd like to unsubscribe from and change the permission from Allow to Block.
Use of Collected Information
Collecting the information described above enables us to tailor our content to our readers' needs and to target more relevant advertising. If at any time you would like assistance with deleting your data, please contact us as [email protected]
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 or 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.
Our primary partners are the following and we encourage you to visit their privacy policies to see how they might use your data:
Google - Google Analytics Tracking, Google AdX Advertising, Google DFP Ad Serving
Adapex - Ad Serving Partner
Mailchimp - Email/Newsletter Services
YouTube - Site Video Services
Amazon - Merchant Sales Services - As an Amazon Associate we earn a commission from qualifying purchases made on this site.
Commission Junction/Conversant Media - Merchant Sales Services
For more information about Internet-based ads, or to opt out of having your web browsing information used for behavioral advertising purposes, please visit: https://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp and https://www.aboutads.info/choices.
All or partial advertising on this Website or App is managed by Playwire LLC. If Playwire publisher advertising services are used, Playwire LLC may collect and use certain aggregated and anonymized data for advertising purposes. To learn more about the types of data collected, how data is used and your choices as a user, please visit https://www.playwire.com/privacy-policy.
For EU Users only: If you are located in countries that are part of the European Economic Area, in the United Kingdom or Switzerland, and publisher advertising services are being provided by Playwire LLC, you were presented with messaging from our Consent Management Platform (CMP) around your privacy choices as a user in regards to digital advertising, applicable vendors, cookie usage and more. If you’d like to revisit the choices you have made previously on this Website or App, please click here.
How this Privacy Policy May ChangeWe may change this Privacy Policy from time to time, and all changes will be effective at the time we post them. If we believe there is a significant change to this Privacy Policy or our data collection and use practices, we will indicate on our website that our Privacy Policy has changed prior to the change becoming effective. The then-posted version of the Privacy Policy supersedes all prior versions. Your continued access to or use of any of the Services shall be deemed your acceptance of the Privacy Policy.
Use of This Site
As a reader or user of HotHardware.com, you are using the site as a privilege, not a right, free of charge. Therefore the owner and operators of this site may, at any time, at their discretion, disable/ban your user account or prevent your use of this site.
Indemnity
You will indemnify and hold harmless Hot Hardware, Inc., its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, customers, vendors, officers and employees from any liability, damage or cost (including reasonable attorneys. fees and cost) from any claim or demand made by any third party or yourself, due to or arising out of your access to the Site, use of the Services, violation of the Terms of Use by you, or the infringement by you, or any third party using your account or HotHardware.com User ID, or of any intellectual property or other right of any person or entity.
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 us via email at: [email protected]
Copyright Policy:
We respect the intellectual property and copyright of others. As such, we have a policy of removing user submissions that violate copyright law, suspending access to our services and to any user who uses the services in violation of copyright law, as well as terminating, in appropriate circumstances, the account of any user who uses our services in violation of copyright law.
Pursuant to Title 17 of the United States Code, Section 512, we have implemented procedures for receiving written notification of claimed copyright infringement and for processing claims in accordance with the law. If you believe a user of 's service is infringing your copyright, please provide written notice to our agent listed below for notice of claims of copyright infringement and we will expeditiously remove the allegedly infringing material.
DMCA Notification of Claimed Infringement:
If you believe that your content has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide us with written notice that includes the following information:
- Your name, address, telephone number, and email address.
- A description of the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed.
- The URL(s) or a description of where on the HotHardware.com service the material you claim is infringing is located.
- A written statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the use of the copyrighted work is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
- A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the information in your notice is accurate, and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the copyright owner’s behalf.
- An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright interest.
Send your notice to our agent for notices of claimed copyright infringement as follows:
Email: [email protected]
Postal mail:
Hot Hardware, Inc.
C/O Saunders & Silverstein, LLP.
14 Cedar Street - Suite 224
Amesbury, MA 01913
Fax: 978.463.9109
DMCA Counter-notification:
- If you believe your material has been removed in error, please provide us with a written counter-notification that includes the following information:
- Your name, address, telephone number, and email address.
- A description of the material that was removed.
- The URL(s) or a description of where on the HotHardware.com service the material appeared prior to removal.
- A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification.
- A statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your address is located, or if your address is outside of the United States, any judicial district in which HotHardware.com may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the person who filed the original DMCA notice or an agent of that person.
- Your electronic or physical signature, or the signature of the person authorized to act on your behalf.
Send your notice to our agent for notices of claimed copyright infringement as follows:
Email: [email protected]
Postal mail:
Hot Hardware, Inc.
C/O Saunders & Silverstein, LLP.
14 Cedar Street - Suite 224
Amesbury, MA 01913
Fax: 978.463.9109
