Terms and Conditions

By accessing this website you are agreeing to the terms and conditions that appear below. If you have any comments or questions, please contact us at Customer Service.

In making use of the Website you agree to abide by any and all of the following terms and conditions governing use of the Website ("Acceptable Use Policy").

Acceptable Use Policy

You agree to abide by all applicable laws, regulations and codes of conduct and ensure that any content uploaded or distributed or stored by you does not infringe the rights of others.

All material on the Website and any material sent to you by e-mail or any other form ("the content") belongs to us or our licensors. You may retrieve and display content from the Website on a computer screen, print individual pages on paper, photocopy and store such pages in electronic form on disk (but not on any server or other storage device connected to the network) for your personal, non-commercial use.

We own the copyright and all other intellectual property rights associated with the content, save where otherwise stated.

Except as specifically stated in these terms, you may not do any of the following without prior written permission from us:

• reproduce, modify or in any way commercially exploit any of the content;
• redistribute any of the content (including by using it as part of any library, archive or similar service);
• remove the copyright or trademark notice(s) from any copies of content made in accordance with these terms;
• create a database in electronic or structured manual form by systematically downloading and storing all and any of the content. Requests to republish, redistribute or syndicate content should be addressed to reprints@protoolreviews.com

You agree not to:

• Impersonate another person or use a false name or a name you are unauthorized to use or create a false identity or try to mislead others as to the identity or origin of any communications;
• Modify, access or make available data stored on a computer device which you have accessed through our network, when either the owner of the data, computer or device has taken steps to prevent you from doing this or the owner has expressed a wish that you do not do this;
• Damage, interfere with or disrupt access to the Website or do anything which may interrupt or impair their functionality;
• Save as authorized in these terms, make any commercial or business use of the Website or resell or commercially benefit from any part or aspect of the Website;
• Publish, post, distribute, disseminate or otherwise transmit defamatory, offensive, infringing, obscene, indecent or other unlawful or objectionable material or information;
• Threaten, harass, stalk, abuse, disrupt or otherwise violate the rights (including rights of privacy and publicity) of others;
• Make available, upload or distribute by any means any material or files that contain any viruses, bugs, corrupt data, "trojan horses", "worms" or any other harmful software;
• Obtain or attempt to obtain unauthorized access, through whatever means, to the Website, other services or computer systems or areas of our or any of our partners' networks which are identified as restricted;
  

We retain the absolute right to prevent you accessing the Website, without prejudice to any of our accrued rights, where we in our sole discretion consider that you are contravening our Acceptable Use Policy or any other aspect of these terms.

FTC Disclosure Guidelines

It's important to be transparent about our interaction with tools and how manufacturers may or may not allow us to retain tools that are delivered to us for review. According to the Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising (the "Guides") set forth by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), by writing reviews, articles, or sharing our product opinions on social networks or through other types of media, our opinions may be considered an endorsement and we may be considered an endorser. As an endorser, we have an obligation under Guides (i) to let readers know if we received any free products or any other item of value from a manufacturer or if another material connection exists, and (ii) to ensure that our statements and reviews about manufacturers' products reflect our honest opinions, beliefs, and findings. We have to temper this, however, with the fact that we review literally HUNDREDS of tools per year and are not set up to manage the process and hassle of return shipping on every single tool. While it is our policy to return tools used in reviews, for the purposes of succinctly and efficiently fulfilling FTC guidelines, we have chosen to operate under the auspices (consumer assumption) that we actually retain all tools given to us by manufacturers - whether we do or not.

Let us make this clear. If all of our readers assume that we retain the tools, then we meet FTC guidelines and don't have to track whether or not we returned tools and notate that in each review - making each review have to contain a notation and impeding or muddying the actual review content. Because the government has seen fit to step in and make this process more complex, this is our method of meeting the requirements of the law without sacrificing the volume of reviews we can produce or having to open up a shipping department to manage and execute return tool shipments to manufacturers. Quite frankly, we'd rather allocate resources to reviewing more products for our readers.

Regardless of whether or not we retain a tool, we feel that, as professionals, our opinions are valid. Since our business model doesn't revolve around retaining tools or otherwise benefiting from products that we receive and render opinions on in the form of reviews, this is born out in our content and in-depth review consistency. Our business model is based on advertising revenue from banners and featured review placement, not reselling or hording tools. We have our own tools and can't get our work done without them. A good tool is still a good tool, and whether or not we retain a cordless drill or 2-foot level isn't going to change our opinions, or the trustworthiness of our articles.

Registration

Where the Website requires that you register in order to use it, you are obliged to provide accurate and complete registration information. It is your responsibility to update and maintain any changes to that information (including your e-mail address) by altering your details as appropriate.

Registration is for a single user only. On registration, you should choose a user name and password.

E-mail Policy

We will not respond unless required to do so by law to any electronic mail ("e-mail") which contains threatening, abusive, malicious, pornographic, obscene, defamatory or otherwise illegal or inappropriate material. We reserve the right to take such action as we in our sole discretion deem fit in respect of such material.

Unless you indicate to the contrary all e-mails received will be taken to be submitted, where appropriate, for publication, free of charge. If we decide to publish an e-mail from you on the Website we will incur no liability to you by doing so.

Liabilities

You agree that we have no control over third party content and information which can be accessed using the Website and that we do not examine or edit the use to which you or others put the Website or the nature of the content or information being accessed and that we are excluded from all liability of any kind arising from such content or information. You agree that except for death or personal injury arising through our negligence, we shall not be liable whatsoever for any loss or damage arising from use of the Website. You furthermore agree to indemnify us in the manner set out below in these terms in relation to your use in any way of the Website.

We reserve the right to remove any information/material we deem to be in breach of any of these terms without notice, and without prejudice to any other accrued rights, and/or to make available such information/material when required to do so by law or when requested to do so by regulatory bodies or law enforcement organizations.

We take all such steps as are reasonably necessary to provide a fast and reliable service, but exclude to the fullest extent permitted by law any liability for the security of the services on the Website or for any disruption of the Website however caused, loss of or corruption of any material in transit, or loss of or corruption of material when downloaded onto any computer systems.

We provide the Website on an "as is" basis and make no representations or warranties of any kind as to the Website or the content. We make no representations or warranties about the accuracy, completeness or suitability for any purpose of the content published on the Website. Any liability, however it occurs, for any such inaccuracies or errors is expressly excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Indemnity

You agree to indemnify and hold us and any of our officers, employees and agents harmless from and against all and any expenses, losses, liabilities, damages, costs or expenses of any character incurred or suffered and any claims or legal proceedings which are brought or threatened, in each case arising from your use of, or conduct on, the Website and/or a breach of the Acceptable Use Policy and/or any of these terms.

Advertising and Sponsorship

The Website may contain advertising and sponsorship. Advertisers and sponsors are responsible for ensuring that material submitted for inclusion on the Website complies with applicable laws, codes and regulations. We exclude to the fullest extent permitted by law any responsibility for any error or inaccuracy appearing in any advertising or sponsorship material. Please refer to our privacy policy for the use of cookies in relation to targeting potential advertisers.

Termination

We may terminate the provision of the Website or restrict your access to them without any prior notice to you where (by way of example and without limitation): (1) there is a regulatory or statutory change limiting our ability to provide the Website; (2) any event beyond our reasonable control prevents us from continuing to provide the Website (for example, without limitation, technical difficulties, capacity problems and communications failures); or (3) we consider in our sole discretion that you are abusing the services provided by the Website or are otherwise acting in breach of these terms.

As this is a shared service with other users, you agree that if the demand for the services provided by the Website is in excess of our ability to meet the capacity, we may either share the capacity among all users or we may give you notice by e-mail that the provision of the Website will terminate. Any such termination will not affect your accrued liabilities incurred prior to any such termination.

E-commerce

Your dealings with any third parties, in particular advertisers and/or merchants, through the services provided by the Website and any terms, conditions, warranties or representations with such third parties are solely between you and such third party. You agree that we are not liable for such dealings, and you agree to indemnify us in the manner referred to above in these terms in relation to such dealings.

PRO TOOL REVIEWS, NOR ANY OF ITS CONTRIBUTORS, WILL BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING AVAILABLE OR NOT AVAILABLE ON THIS SITE. THE CONTENT IS PROVIDED ON AN 'AS IS' BASIS.

Contact

If you have any queries concerning any part of these terms and the privacy and e-mail policies contained in them, please contact us at info@protoolreviews.com.

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