Terms of Use

1. Agreement to these terms

Opening a page on this Site binds you to these Terms, together with our Privacy Policy and Advertising Disclosure — both of which are folded into this agreement by reference.

Not willing to accept them? Then please don’t use the Site. And if you are accepting on a company’s behalf, you are confirming you have authority to commit that company.

2. What this site is — and what it is not

Consumer Expert Tech is a consumer research and review publication, independently run. We put products through testing, score them, rank them, and publish the resulting opinion.

Which is why order status, tracking, delivery, returns, refunds, exchanges, warranty claims, cancellations and technical support are all beyond our reach. Every one of them sits with the seller. Our contact page walks you through finding them.

3. Who may use the site

This is an adult audience. Use the Site only if you are 18 or over — or older, where your local age of majority is higher — and legally capable of entering into an agreement like this one. Nothing here is aimed at children.

Where local law makes using a site like this unlawful, don’t. Staying on the right side of the rules that apply where you are is your responsibility, not ours.

4. Our content and your use of it

You have our permission to read the Site and to view, download and print what is on it for your own personal, non-commercial purposes. That license is limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and revocable.

Except as that license allows, you may not:

• Reproduce, republish, syndicate, sell or commercially exploit any part of the Site
• Copy our reviews, scores, rankings, comparison tables or images onto another site or into another publication
• Use our content to train, fine-tune or build a machine learning model or dataset without our written permission
• Remove or obscure any copyright, trademark or attribution notice
• Frame or mirror the Site, or present our content as your own

Quoting a line or two with clear credit and a link back to the original page is genuinely welcome — that is how the web is supposed to work. Beyond that, ask us in writing first.

5. Reviews are opinion, not professional advice

Take everything here as general consumer information plus our editorial view. It is not advice — not medical, health, safety, legal, financial or tax advice — and it is no replacement for a qualified professional who knows your particular circumstances.

A score records what we made of a particular product, on the date we assessed it, measured against the criteria set out in our review process. It guarantees nothing about performance, suitability, safety or value, and it is a judgment call that sensible people can reasonably dispute.

Whatever you buy, the manufacturer’s own instructions and safety warnings come first, and a professional should be brought in when the situation warrants one. What you ultimately decide to do with our content is your call and your responsibility.

6. Affiliate relationships and advertising

Advertising and affiliate commissions pay for this Site. The safe assumption is that any link pointing out to a product, retailer or brand is a commercial one, and that a purchase made through it may earn us money. Your price is unaffected.

The full mechanics — including a frank account of what that money does and does not influence — are in our Advertising Disclosure, which forms part of these Terms.

7. Third-party links, merchants and transactions

Outbound links point to sites nobody here owns or controls. They are there for convenience and nothing more. We do not vet, monitor or endorse those sites, their content, their security or the way they run their business, and a link is not a character reference for the company at the other end.

The instant you follow a link off this Site, these Terms cease to apply and the other company’s terms and privacy policy take over instead. Read theirs before you hand over any money.

We are not responsible or liable for any dealing you have with a third party found through this Site, including any loss or damage arising from the purchase, delivery, use or failure of goods or services bought from them. Complaints, claims and questions about a product or an order all belong with whoever sold it to you.

8. Accuracy, prices and availability

We work at being accurate, and we still expect to get things wrong sometimes — typos, mistakes, gaps, and material that has simply aged out. Any of it may be corrected, altered or removed at any time without notice, and nothing obliges us to keep a given page current.

Pricing, discounts, bundles, promotions and stock move constantly, usually without warning. Anything of that kind on this page was believed correct on the day it was written and may well have gone stale since. Treat the merchant’s own listing and checkout as the single source of truth for what you pay and what turns up.

Some pages are kept deliberately as a record of an earlier verdict. They are archive, not current guidance, and should not be read as though they were.

9. Acceptable use

You agree not to use the Site to:

• Break any law, or encourage or help anyone else to break one
• Infringe our intellectual property rights or anyone else’s
• Harass, abuse, threaten, defame, impersonate or discriminate against any person
• Submit false, misleading or deliberately deceptive information
• Upload or transmit any virus, worm or other malicious code
• Scrape, spider, crawl, harvest or bulk-download the Site or its content by automated means, except by a search engine obeying our robots directives
• Collect or track other people’s personal information
• Send spam, or use the Site for phishing, pharming or pretexting
• Interfere with, overload, disable or circumvent the security of the Site or the servers and networks behind it

We may investigate and take any action we consider appropriate for a breach of this section, including blocking your access and reporting you to the authorities.

10. Your submissions

If you send us a comment, question, review, suggestion, idea or other material (a “Submission”), you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual and irrevocable license to use, reproduce, edit, adapt, translate, publish and distribute it in any medium, in connection with the Site and our business.

You confirm that your Submission:

• Is yours to send, and does not infringe anyone’s copyright, trademark, privacy or other rights
• Is not unlawful, abusive, obscene, defamatory or otherwise objectionable
• Does not contain malicious code, and does not misrepresent who you are

Nothing obliges us to keep a Submission private, to pay for it, to reply to it or to publish it at all, and we may edit or take down any Submission as we see fit. Responsibility for what you send stays with you, and we accept no liability for material posted by you or by anyone else.

11. Intellectual property

The Site and its content — text, reviews, scores, rankings, photographs, graphics, video, layout, design, code and the compilation of all of it — are owned by us or our licensors and are protected by copyright, trademark and other laws.

The Consumer Expert Tech name, our logo and our page and section names are our trademarks. Every other company’s product name, brand name and logo belongs to that company; they appear here purely to identify and describe what we are writing about. Nothing in that usage implies affiliation with those owners, sponsorship by them, or their endorsement of us.

If you believe material on this Site infringes your copyright, contact [email protected] with enough detail to identify the work and the page concerned, and we will investigate.

12. Privacy

Our Privacy Policy explains what personal information we collect through the Site, how we use and share it, how long we keep it, and the rights you have over it. By using the Site you acknowledge that policy.

13. Availability of the site

Any part of this Site may be changed, paused, restricted or shut down at any time, with or without warning, and we may cap particular features or close off sections entirely.

We do not guarantee that the Site will be available uninterrupted or error-free, and we are not liable to you or to anyone else for any change, suspension or discontinuation.

14. Disclaimer of warranties

The Site and all its content are provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranty of any kind, express or implied.

To the fullest extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, including the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Site will be uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free; that defects will be corrected; that the Site is free of viruses; or that the content, ratings, results or recommendations you obtain from it will be accurate, complete, current or reliable.

No advice or information you obtain from us creates any warranty not expressly stated here. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties, so parts of this section may not apply to you, and nothing here affects any statutory rights you have as a consumer that cannot be excluded.

15. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, neither Consumer Expert Tech nor its owners, directors, officers, employees, agents, contractors, suppliers or licensors will be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, punitive or exemplary damages, or for any loss of profits, revenue, savings, data, goodwill or business opportunity, arising out of or connected with your use of — or inability to use — the Site or its content, whether based in contract, tort (including negligence), strict liability or any other legal theory, and even if we have been advised that such damages are possible.

This includes, without limitation, any loss or damage arising from your purchase or use of a product you found through this Site, from any dealing with a third-party merchant, or from any error, omission or inaccuracy in our content.

Where liability cannot lawfully be excluded, our total aggregate liability to you for all claims relating to the Site is limited to one hundred US dollars (US$100.00).

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain damages, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

16. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless MY Publishing LTD. and its owners, directors, officers, employees, agents, contractors, suppliers and licensors from any claim, demand, loss, liability or expense — including reasonable legal fees — arising out of your breach of these Terms, your misuse of the Site, your Submissions, or your violation of any law or of the rights of any third party.

17. Termination

These Terms run for as long as you keep using the Site, and you can end them whenever you like simply by stopping.

We may suspend or terminate your access at any time, without notice, if we believe you have breached these Terms or that your use of the Site poses a risk to us or to others.

Sections that by their nature should survive termination — including sections 4, 10, 11 and 14 to 19 — continue to apply after it.

18. Governing law and disputes

These Terms, and any dispute arising out of or relating to them or to the Site, are governed by the laws of the State of Israel, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules.

You agree that the competent courts of Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel have exclusive jurisdiction over any such dispute, and you consent to their jurisdiction and venue. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods does not apply.

Before starting formal proceedings, we ask that you contact us at [email protected] so that we can try to resolve the matter directly. If you are a consumer resident in the UK or EU, this section does not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory laws of your country of residence, or of your right to bring proceedings in your local courts.

19. General provisions

Severability

If any provision of these Terms is held unlawful, void or unenforceable, it will be enforced to the maximum extent permitted and severed to the extent it cannot be. The remaining provisions stay in full force.

No waiver

Our failure to enforce any right or provision is not a waiver of that right or provision, and no waiver is effective unless made in writing by us.

Assignment

You may not assign or transfer these Terms without our written consent. We may assign them freely, including in connection with a merger, acquisition or sale of the Site.

Entire agreement

These Terms, together with our Privacy Policy and Advertising Disclosure, are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Site, and supersede any earlier agreement or understanding on the subject. Any ambiguity will not be construed against us merely because we drafted them.

Headings

Section headings are for convenience only and do not affect the interpretation of these Terms.

20. Changes to these terms

Updates happen by posting a revised version here and moving the “last updated” date. Checking back now and then is on you.

Carrying on using the Site once a change has taken effect counts as accepting the revised Terms. If they do not suit you, the remedy is to stop using it.

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