These terms govern your use of failsafehome.com. By browsing the site you accept them. If you do not accept them, please stop using the site.

Use of the site

You may read, print and share our pages for your own personal, non-commercial use. You may link to any page here without asking permission, and you may quote a reasonable extract in your own work provided you attribute it to Failsafe Home and link back to the page you took it from.

You agree not to use the site in ways that interfere with it or with other readers. In particular, you agree not to:

• republish substantial portions of our content, in any language or format, without written permission;
• sell, license or redistribute our content as your own, including as training or input material for a commercial product;
• scrape or crawl the site in a way that places an unreasonable load on it, or that ignores the instructions published for automated agents;
• attempt to gain access to any part of the site, its server or its administration that is not made public;
• upload or transmit anything malicious, or use the site to distribute unsolicited commercial messages.

Intellectual property

The text, layout, structure, graphics and code of this site are owned by the site operator or used with permission, and are protected by copyright and other applicable rights. The Failsafe Home name and logo are ours. Nothing on this page transfers any of those rights to you, and permission for anything beyond the personal use described above has to be asked for.

Trademarks and product names mentioned in our articles belong to their respective owners. We use them to identify the products we are discussing. Mentioning a brand does not imply that the brand endorses us, sponsors our coverage, or has approved anything we said about it.

If you believe material on this site infringes your copyright, write to us through the contact page with enough detail to identify the work and the page in question, and we will look at it promptly.

Links to other websites

This site links out to manufacturers, standards bodies, government agencies and retailers. Those sites are not under our control. We do not endorse everything on a site we link to, we are not responsible for its content, its accuracy, its availability or its privacy practices, and following an outbound link means you are subject to that site’s own terms.

Some outbound links are affiliate links, which may earn us a commission at no additional cost to you. Any purchase you make is a contract between you and that merchant, not with us: delivery, warranty, support and refunds are theirs to honor. This is explained in full on our affiliate disclosure page.

No warranty and limitation of liability

The site is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. We put real effort into accuracy and we correct errors when we find them, but we do not warrant that the content is complete, current, or fit for any particular purpose, and we do not warrant that the site will be uninterrupted or error-free. Prices, specifications, codes and standards change, and a page that was accurate when written may no longer be.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the site operator and its contributors are not liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential or special damages, or for any loss of data, property damage, cost, or injury arising out of your use of, or reliance on, anything published here. You are responsible for the decisions you make about your own property and your own safety, and for hiring qualified people where the work calls for them. Nothing in these terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited.

The content on this site is general information, not professional advice. That distinction matters enough to have its own page: please read the disclaimer.

Privacy

Your use of the site is also governed by our privacy policy, which describes the analytics and affiliate cookies involved and the rights you have over the limited data collected.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms from time to time, for instance when the site adds a feature, joins a new affiliate program, or has to reflect a change in the law. The current version is always the one published on this page, and continuing to use the site after a change means you accept the revised terms.

Governing law and severability

These terms are governed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which the site operator is established, without regard to conflict of law rules, and any dispute arising from them is subject to the courts of that jurisdiction. Where mandatory consumer protection law in your country of residence gives you rights that cannot be set aside by agreement, those rights are unaffected.

If any provision of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest remain in force, and the unenforceable provision is treated as modified to the minimum extent needed to make it valid.

Questions about these terms can be sent to us through the contact page. If you want to know how the site is put together and what it will and will not publish, see about Failsafe Home and our editorial policy.