Content & Copyright Policy

Anything you create or upload on the site: comments and discussion posts, device ratings, your community profile (handle, display name, bio, avatar, banner, links), critic posts, and any images you attach to them.

Do not post content that is or contains:

• Anything illegal, or that promotes illegal activity.
• Harassment, threats, hate, or abuse directed at any person or group.
• Spam — including manipulation of ratings, rankings, or discussion systems, and repetitive promotional posting.
• Material that infringes someone else’s copyright, trademark, or other rights.
• Links to malware, phishing, or otherwise malicious content.
• Someone else’s private information — addresses, phone numbers, non-public emails, or anything similar — posted without their consent.

You keep ownership of what you post. So that the site can actually show it, you grant Hardware Ranked a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, reproduce, display, and distribute your content on and in connection with the site — for example, showing your comment in a discussion, your rating in an aggregate score, or your critic post in the gallery. The license for a piece of content ends when you delete it, except where it has already been aggregated (a rating folded into a score), where a short-lived backup retains it, or — for comments other people have replied to — where the text remains visible in anonymized form with your name and account stripped from it, so the conversation still makes sense.

We may remove or restrict content that violates this policy, and may suspend or terminate accounts for serious or repeated violations — with or without notice, at our reasonable discretion. We are not obligated to pre-screen content, but we act on reports. To report content, use the reporting affordances on the site or the Contact page.

If you believe content on Hardware Ranked infringes your copyright, send a takedown notice to DaveyNationEmail@gmail.com with “DMCA takedown notice” in the subject line. Under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c)(3), a valid notice must include:

• Your physical or electronic signature (or that of someone authorized to act for the copyright owner).
• Identification of the copyrighted work you claim is infringed.
• Identification of the infringing material and enough information to locate it on the site — a direct URL is best.
• Your contact information: name, address, phone, and email.
• A statement that you have a good-faith belief the use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
• A statement, under penalty of perjury, that the notice is accurate and that you are the copyright owner or authorized to act on the owner’s behalf.

On receiving a valid notice we will remove or disable access to the identified material and make a reasonable effort to notify the user who posted it.

If your content was removed and you believe that was a mistake or a misidentification, you can send a counter-notice to the same email address. It must include: your physical or electronic signature; identification of the removed material and where it appeared; a statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good-faith belief the material was removed by mistake or misidentification; and your name, address, phone number, and consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for your address (or, if outside the United States, any judicial district in which Hardware Ranked may be found). If the original claimant does not notify us within 10–14 business days that they have filed a court action, the material may be restored.

Accounts that repeatedly infringe copyright are terminated. We track takedowns against accounts and apply this policy in appropriate circumstances, as the DMCA requires.