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This announcement contains several notes regarding the Harbor Freight Reviews website and discussion forum. All readers should at least survey this and future announcements for important information.

Comments and other posts to the discussion forum now require registration. We have received a large volume of keyword spamming from unscrupulous website promoters and find it necessary to require registration for posting and to screen posts prior to publication. We are NOT exercising editorial control and will publish unaltered comments as received when they are submitted by legitimate users. Registration is not required to read the reviews and commentaries on this discussion forum. Information required for registration (i.e., user name and e-mail address) will not be used for any purpose other than registration to this discussion forum. We protect your privacy and do not share this information with anyone.

If you wish to receive notifications regarding updates to the Harbor Freight Reviews website, subscribe to the RSS feed for this category (i.e., click the "Posts" link for "Announcements"). You will also receive administrative announcements for this discussion forum, but they will be infrequent (updates are not sent for new product reviews; please check the discussion forum regularly). Announcements are issued irregularly as needed, most likely averaging less than once-per-month.

A user guide is now available for this discussion forum. It's intended to help readers navigate the discussion forum and find relevant reviews. Intelligent navigating becomes increasingly important as the number of reviews grows. Comments and suggestions are particularly welcomed regarding how to simply use of this forum.

To increase visibility of our content, most of these online reviews and some other content will be duplicated on our regular website. This is to facilitate Internet indexing of key terms that will help users locate relevant reviews. Some users may also find that medium easier to navigate. The website also offers a limited number of our test products for sale at 50% or less of their normal retail price. However, the primary site for the most recent material and for reader comments remains this discussion forum.

Finally, we continue to use Google's Adsense program for presenting advertisements on the bottom of most pages. Please do not confuse these unvetted advertisements with our own content. An example immediately follows the next paragraph.

Clicking on the links provided by Google takes you to off-site content and may collect information (like ALL Internet searches and most websites) regarding your browsing patterns. This is to enhance and target the advertisements and content to specific user interests. A simple example of this practice is your Internet browser that stores information regarding which websites you have recently visited, usually displaying them in a slightly different color on your monitor. Nonetheless, be advised that this type of 'personal' information is often collected by online advertisers and their listing services. We do NOT collect or store this type of information regarding your viewing practices on our website or discussion forum.