Terms of Use

We invite our site users to enjoy all the features this site has to offer. The TechMaine website is offered to you conditioned on your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein. Your use of the TechMaine website constitutes your agreement to all such terms, conditions, and notices. Failure to abide by these rules can result in immediate termination of access to this site, without refund or recourse.

Registration, Passwords and Responsibilities
Certain areas of the website may only be open to you if you register or subscribe. You are solely responsible for the confidentiality and use of and access to the content and the website using your user name and password.

  • If you suspect that anyone else is using your subscription you should login and change your password immediately.
  • Do not share your logon passwords and user names. We may suspend any account where more than one person signs on using the same username and password.
  • Do not use vulgarity, obscenity, profanity, ethnic slurs, hate speech, or sexually explicit language, or harass, abuse, or threaten other subscribers. Do not libel or defame others.

Communities and Social Interaction
The Site may include forums, discussion groups, email, online chat and other public areas that allow feedback to the website and interaction between users. TechMaine does not control the information or materials posted to the website by other members, we reserve the right (which we may exercise at our sole discretion without notice) to delete, move, or edit messages and to terminate your use of the site. The person posting a message is solely responsible for it, not this site. This site strongly disapproves flaming. Violators may be permanently banned from using the site, have their subscriptions terminated, or have their IP address(s) blocked.

  • You are solely responsible for the content of your messages. You must comply with any rules posted by TechMaine and these terms and conditions.
  • Subscribers will not post or link to any form of advertising or external promotion, or post any content that is unrelated to the forum they are posting in. Spam will result in immediate deletion of your profile. Links to web spammers or "bad neighborhoods" on the web will be deleted.
  • Subscribers will not post or link to any messages that contain viruses, Trojans, or any harmful code.
  • If members quote other sources these should be referenced, the source of messages should not be hidden.
  • Subscribers may not impersonate any person or misrepresent any affiliation with any person or entity.
  • Subscribers may not collect or store other users' personal data.
  • It is not possible for TechMaine to fully and effectively monitor messages that are submitted by other members. If you believe that a message infringes your rights, you should notify TechMaine immediately by means of the contact us form.

Fees and Subscriptions
From time to time, we may offer subscription terms, and fees for such subscriptions may vary. TechMaine will send notices prior to the end of subscription periods. It is your responsibility to renew subscriptions. TechMaine does not currently offer subscription auto-renewals. We offer a considerable amount of FREE information on the site in lieu of offering trial subscriptions. Subscription fees are non-refundable.

Changes to The Site
TechMaine reserves the right, to suspend, modify, add or remove portions of the TechMaine website or content available on the site at any time and to restrict the use and accessibility of the site as we see fit. TechMaine may change the terms and conditions on this website without notice. Parts of the website may contain advertising or other third party content. Advertisers and other content providers are responsible for ensuring that material submitted for inclusion on the TechMaine website complies with international and national law. We are not responsible for any third party content or error, omission or inaccuracy in any advertising material. The website may also contain links to other web sites;TechMaine is not responsible for the availability of these websites or their contents. The inclusion of any link on the Site does not imply that we endorse the linked site. You use the links at your own risk.

No Unlawful or Prohibited Use
You may not use the TechMaine website in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the TechMaine website or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the TechMaine website. You may not obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not intentionally made available or provided for through the TechMaine website. TechMaine may, at its discretion, terminate or suspend your use of or subscription to the website with or without cause without delivering notice to you should you break any of the terms & conditions laid out in this document. Or for any reason that TechMaine sees fit. TechMaine monitors site log records.

Copyright and Trademark Law
TechMaine does not claim ownership of the materials you provide to this website. When you post content on this site, you permit this site to display and distribute the content, and to use it for advertising and promotion. You grant to this site the complete, perpetual, but non-exclusive right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, translate, distribute, sub-license, etc. the content in whole or in part, throughout the world and universe, on a royalty-free basis. By posting content on the site or submitting any content to the Site, including without limitation lists, articles, text, audio, video, pictures, graphics, music, sound clips, images, likenesses, personal information and other works of authorship, you warrant and represent that you own all rights in the content and the performance contained in your post or, alternatively, you have acquired all necessary rights in the post to enable you to grant to TechMaine the rights in the content described herein and for us to exercise the rights with respect to such content that you grant herein. No subscribers will upload any copyrighted materials, without the express written permission of the content owner(s).

THE LISTS, ARTICLES AND ALL OTHER CONTENT FOUND ON THE TECHMAINE WEBSITE ARE PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT AND ALL OTHER APPLICABLE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS. TECHMAINE CONTENT IS NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION OR RESALE. YOUR USE OF THETECHMAINE WEBSITE DOES NOT ENTITLE YOU TO DISTRIBUTE OR RESELL ANY TECHMAINE CONTENT. FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBT, YOUR USE OF THE TECHMAINE WEBSITE CONSTITUTES YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS AND YOUR PROMISE THAT YOU WILL NOT RESELL OR OTHERWISE ATTEMPT TO COMMERCIALLY BENEFIT FROM TECHMAINE CONTENT WITHOUT THE EXPRESS WRITTEN CONSENT OF TECHMAINE, WHICH RESERVES ALL RIGHTS.

Limitation of Liability
THIS SITE PROVIDES THE INFORMATION, SERVICES AND PRODUCTS ON THIS WEBSITE "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND. YOU ALSO AGREE THAT THIS SITE SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY CONTENT FOUND ON THIS SITE AND THAT YOUR USE OF THIS SITE AND ANY DOWNLOADING OF MATERIALS FOUND ON OR THROUGHOUT THE THIS SITE IS DONE AT YOUR OWN RISK AND THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGES TO YOUR COMPUTER OR DATA THAT RESULTS.

ALL EXPRESS WARRANTIES AND ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT OF PROPRIETARY RIGHTS ARE HEREBY DISCLAIMED TO THE FULL EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. THIS SITE DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE USE OF PERFORMANCE OF THIS WEBSITE WILL BE TIMELY, UNINTERRUPTED OR FREE OF ERROR, OR THAT THIS WEBSITE OR ITS SERVER WILL BE FREE OF VIRUSES. IN NO EVENT SHALL THIS SITE, ITS OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, AGENTS, AFFILIATES, SUPPLIERS, AND EMPLOYEES BE LIABLE FOR ANY LOSS OR INJURY, DIRECT OR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER ARISING FROM THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS WEBSITE OR FROM ANY INFORMATION, SERVICES OR PRODUCTS PROVIDED THROUGH THIS WEBSITE, EVEN IF THIS SITE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN THE EVENT THAT APPLICABLE LAW PREVENTS THE EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR CERTAIN WARRANTIES, SUCH EXCLUSION DOES NOT APPLY TO YOU TO THE EXTENT LIMITED BY LAW.