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Terms of use

By using ThePCSpy (and any subdomains or child pages) you agree to be legally bound by this document and all terms within.

All content and comments are the property of their owners. Any opinions expressed in the posts are also of their owners and do not necessarily reflect the views of ThePCSpy. By posting content to the site, the author agrees that said content is their own or they have the necessary copyright permissions. Also, by posting they grant ThePCSpy a non-exclusive but irrevocable license to use the content how we wish — however, we will remove content at the copyright owner's wish, within a sensible time-frame from notice.

ThePCSpy does not check peoples' credentials. If they say they are somebody/something they're not, remember you only have their word on that and we offer no guarantee they are honest.

No warranty or guarantee is given against any of the content on the site. If you follow instructions, you do so completely at your own risk and will not hold ThePCSpy or the post's owner liable for your actions.

No feature or content of ThePCSpy may be used for the for illegal means. This includes (but is not limited to): starting land wars in central Asia, breaking your local copyright laws, breaking network and/or computer security or harming animals (especially cats) in any way.

There is no guarantee our server, site or any feature or content on the site will be available at any given time and we reserve the right to limit or remove any feature or content without any notice and without any liability

On occasion posts may link to external sites. We are not liable for the content held within these pages. If you spot a bad link, tell us on the contact page.

The "Code"

ThePCSpy gets visitors from all walks of life from many different regions of the world. It is therefore important that users are aware that content they submit is going to be viewed by many different people and it might offend some.

Therefore it's important to note that certain rules must be embedded so that people can get along with minimal friction. These apply to all users of the site, including admins. These are the rules of the "Code":

1. By all means have a discussion but try to stay within the scope of the thread. If you have something off-topic to say, consider starting a new conversation and linking it in.
2. There will be disagreements between people but threatening or bullish behaviour will not be tolerated towards other users. Taunting people into response is equally bad. Racism will also be removed.
3. Be honest. There is no reason to lie.
4. If you mention external sources in a debate, be sure to link them in where possible as this validates your argument.
5. If you have problems with your account, get them sorted by using the contact page rather than submitting threads about it in public.
6. The edit-post is not to be abused. People can edit their own posts a short while after they've posted (for errors and omissions) but the feature should not be used to change the underlying meaning of posts' content.

In return we shall not:

• delete or edit posts that remain within the "Code".
• edit the meaning of the post.
• use our powers to deceive the readers.

Common decency, common sense and honesty sum this all up.

Privacy policy

• All users have their IP logged automatically — there is no option about this. The server will also attempt to make a cookie to track your progress around the site and remember who you are from page to page. This cookie is destroyed when you leave the site.
• Unregistered users also gain cookies for their given name and email address when they post a comment to save time when next encountering a form. This is automatically destroyed after 7 days. When posting a comment we collect an email address so we can contact the author and a name to be shown against the post.
• Registered users store encrypted data about their account to enable automatic logging in to the site. This is automatically destroyed after 30 days without visiting the site. We collect and store information when the user registers pertaining their account but no data that could be abused.

We never have or ever will sell your personal details because we hate spam just as much (if not more) than you do.

We do, however, use anonymous information to analyse trends of visitors around the site. We also provide this information to potential advertisers but there is never any personal detail in this data.

If you wish to correct data or for any other queries, please contact us and we shall do our best to help.