Terms of Use Statement

These "Terms of Use" set forth the terms and conditions that apply to your use of Benchmark Reviews on the Internet domain benchmarkreviews.com (the "Web Site"). By using the Web Site (other than to read this page for the first time), you agree to comply with all of the Terms of Use set forth herein. The right to use the Web Site is personal to you and is not transferable to any other person or entity.

Copyrights and Trademarks

A) All materials contained on the Web Site are Copyrighted and wholly owned by Performance Computers, Inc., a registered and licenced corporation operating in the state of Nevada. All rights are reserved.
B) No person is authorized to use, copy or distribute any portion of the Web Site including related graphics without the prior written authorization of Performance Computers, Inc.
C) Benchmark Reviews, BmR, Golden Tachometer Award, Silver Tachometer Award, and other trademarks and/or service marks (including logos and designs) found on the Web Site are trademarks/service marks that identify Benchmark Reviews and the goods and/or services provided by Performance Computers, Inc. Such marks may not be used under any circumstances without the prior written authorization of Performance Computers, Inc.

Web Site Disclosure Notice

This policy is valid from 1 March 2007. This Web Site is a commercial media owned by Performance Computers Inc and edited by Olin Coles. This Web Site accepts third-party banner advertising, and accepts donated material for testing in product review articles. Banner advertising content does not represent an endorcement for the products or services advertised. This Web Site does not contain any content which might present a conflict of interest. It is the policy of this Web Site not to allow third-party influence into the content of any article or published product rating.

This Web Site abides by word of mouth marketing standards. We believe in honesty of relationship, opinion and identity. The owner of this Web Site is not compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. The views and opinions expressed on this Web Site are purely by the author of such content. If we claim or appear to be experts on a certain topic or product or service area, we will only endorse products or services that we believe, based on our expertise, are worthy of such endorsement. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer or provider. We are employed by or consult with: Performance Computers, Inc.

User Submitted Content

Some of the services offered by Benchmark Reviews include user submitted comments and user submitted deals as well as other content which may be submitted by visitors to the site. These services are provided for the information, education, entertainment, and convenience of members and visitors to Benchmark Reviews. Performance Computers Inc cannot guarantee the reliability or accuracy of any information submitted by users.

All user submitted comments, forum postings, reviews, and other content becomes the property of Performance Computers Inc and is protected by copyright. Benchmark Reviews and its operators and appointed moderators, reserve the right to remove any user contributed materials which are deemed grossly inaccurate, misleading, vulgar, racist, or otherwise inappropriate for a public contribution forum.

Spam, advertisements, and other submissions which are blatantly posted for reasons other than to participate in the community are not tolerated. Unrelated submissions, misleading posts, and posts with vulgar and inflammatory language are not welcome in any area of the community. Members who consistently contribute materials which are inappropriate and unwanted will be banned or even reported to the appropriate authorities.

Excerpt Copyright Ownership

Text excerpts sent from industry news sources are are displayed on the Web Site for informational purposes to promote discussion. News excerpts are located in the Affiliate Articles, Manufacturer News, and Affiliate Reviews sections of the Web Site. These fair use excerpts are the property of respective sources, and may not be duplicated without consent.

No Representations or Warranties; Limitations on Liability

The information and materials on the Web Site could include technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. Changes are periodically made to the information contained herein. Performance Computers Inc makes no representations or warranties with respect to any information, materials or graphics on the web site, all of which is provided on a strictly "as is" basis, without warranty of any kind and hereby expressly disclaims all warranties with regard to any information, materials or graphics on the web site, including all implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Under no circumstances shall the site owner or publisher be liable under any theory of recovery, at law or in equity, for any damages, including without limitation, special, direct, incidental, consequential or punitive damages (including, but not limited to loss of use or lost profits), arising out of or in any manner connected with the use of information or services, or the failure to provide information or services, from the web site.

Privacy Policy of Performance Computers, Inc.

Performance Computers, Inc. recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy of you as a user of the Web Site. This Web Site does not collect Personal Information about you except for information that you voluntarily provide (for example, when you register on this Web Site or submit an email to us with comments about our web site or products reviewed on the web site and you do not specifically indicate that the information contained within is to be considered confidential or provide answers to a voluntary readership survey.)

Your web browser program may accept cookies from this Web Site, which are used to better gage our readership level. No Personal Information is gathered via these cookies by the Web Site.

Personal Information is treated confidentially whenever it is submitted to the Web Site. We consider the following to be Personal Information: your name, address, phone number, date of birth, job, personal interests, credit card information, your e-mail address and data about the pages you visited on this Web Site.

Links to Third-Party Web Site

Benchmark Reviews may provide hyperlinks to third-party web sites as a convenience to users of the Web Site. Performance Computers Inc does not control third-party web sites and is not responsible for the contents of any linked-to, third-party web sites or any hyperlink in a linked-to web site. Performance Computers Inc does not endorse, recommend or approve any third-party web site hyperlinked from the Web Site. Performance Computers Inc and Benchmark Reviews will have no liability to any entity for the content or use of the content available through such hyperlink.

Third Party Cookies

We allow third-party companies to serve ads and/or collect certain anonymous information when you visit our web site. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice or to opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit networkadvertising.org.

Changes to These Terms of Use

Performance Computers, Inc. reserves the right to change these Terms of Use at any time by posting new Terms of Use at this location. You can send e-mail to Performance Computers, Inc. with any questions relating to these Terms of Use from within the Contact Us form.