Proposed Terms of Use

1. Scope

These proposed terms concern access to the Hardwindex pre-launch website and its English-language educational articles about computer hardware planning. The site offers general decision frameworks, calculations, worksheets, and checklists. It does not sell products, broker purchases, accept placements, provide paid advice, or form a technical-support relationship.

The final terms must identify the contracting or publishing entity. “Hardwindex” currently refers only to the supplied brand and domain. No company, partnership, sole trader, or other legal person is represented by that name in this preview.

2. Informational content only

Content is general information, not professional engineering, electrical, fire-safety, legal, financial, procurement, or repair advice. Worked scenarios use illustrative inputs. Specification sheets and calculations are educational; actual components vary by revision, firmware, environment, workload, manufacturing variation, and assembly.

Generic guidance cannot confirm an actual parts list. Readers remain responsible for current manuals, support lists, measurements, applicable rules, safe work, backups, purchase decisions, and qualified help. Stop using equipment and seek suitable help where there is smoke, arcing, unusual odour, heat damage, damaged insulation, uncertain connectors, or another safety concern.

3. No commercial offer

The website contains no price, product recommendation, affiliate link, review score, paid placement, or transaction facility. Commercial relationship and funding details are not yet established; this pre-launch publication accepts no inquiries or placements. Content does not constitute an offer, quotation, warranty, or promise that a component is available or suitable.

4. Accuracy and availability

Hardware information changes. The intended editorial method requires dates, assumptions, visible arithmetic, and current source checking, but that method has not yet been operated by accountable editors. No guarantee is made that preview content is complete, current, error-free, or suitable for one reader’s circumstances.

Access may be interrupted, pages may change, and external decorative images may fail. Material corrections should be dated under the proposed editorial standards once a correction channel exists. The current form and mailbox cannot receive reliable notices.

5. Acceptable use

Visitors may read and link to public pages for lawful purposes. They must not attempt to disrupt the site, bypass security, submit malicious input, impersonate another person, misrepresent Hardwindex content as approval of a parts list, remove attribution from substantial extracts, or use the contact preview to place sensitive information into the page.

Automated access, quotation, indexing, and reuse remain subject to applicable law and any final operator policy. Nothing in these draft terms restricts rights that cannot lawfully be restricted, including mandatory exceptions and consumer protections.

6. Intellectual property

The final operator must establish ownership or licences for the Hardwindex name, text, design, code, monograms, and images before publication. No ownership claim is made on behalf of an unidentified entity. Third-party public images remain subject to their own rights and must pass license review or be replaced with owned media.

Permitted quotation should be limited, attributed, and contextual. Republishing a substantial manual, dataset, layout, or checklist may require permission from the future rights holder unless an applicable legal exception permits it.

7. Liability

To the extent permitted by applicable law, the future operator may seek to exclude liability for losses arising from reliance on general preview information, unavailable pages, external media, or reader modifications made without current component documentation. A final clause must be drafted for the identified entity and its actual activities.

Nothing should exclude liability where exclusion is unlawful, nor limit mandatory consumer rights. Liability terms are especially sensitive when personal injury, intentional conduct, gross fault, or statutory duties are involved. This draft does not attempt to override Netherlands or European mandatory law.

8. Privacy

The draft privacy notice describes local consent-choice storage, blocked form submission, external media requests, and the missing controller identity. A real operator must complete that notice, select processors, define retention, map transfers, and provide a monitored rights channel before making the site live.

9. External resources

Public photographs are decorative and fetched from an external media host. Hardwindex does not control that host’s availability or content after generation. The images must be reviewed and preferably self-hosted. The site contains no visitor-facing vendor links or endorsements.

10. Governing law and disputes

The proposed governing law is the law of the Netherlands, subject to mandatory rules that protect a visitor in another jurisdiction. The competent court and operator venue cannot be stated until the real operator and address are known. A final dispute clause should provide a practical written-notice route and should not deprive consumers of mandatory courts or remedies.

Before litigation, the parties may attempt a good-faith written resolution once a monitored address exists. This sentence does not create a functioning dispute channel today, impose mandatory arbitration, or shorten any statutory period.

11. Changes and severability

Final terms should show an effective date and preserve prior versions when material changes affect existing use. If one provision is invalid, the remaining provisions may continue only to the extent permitted by law and consistent with the intended arrangement.

12. Contact and effective status

The preview mailbox is editor@hardwindex.com, labelled unverified and unmonitored. It is not a valid service address or dependable legal-notice route. These proposed terms are dated 25 September 2026 and have no stated commercial effective date.