Terms of Service

1. Acceptance of Terms

By accessing and utilizing the website located at https://rufus.tools (the "Site"), you acknowledge and agree to comply with and be bound by these Terms of Service ("Terms"). If you do not agree with any part of these Terms, you are prohibited from accessing or using the Site.

2. Independent Informational Resource

Rufus Tools is an independently operated educational guide, documentation portal, and software directory. We provide technical instructions, release documentation, cryptographic checksums, and verified links pointing to original project release binaries.

This Site is not affiliated with, maintained by, or endorsed by Pete Batard or the official Rufus open-source project. All software names, logos, and trademarks referenced belong to their respective owners. The official home of the Rufus project is located at https://rufus.ie.

3. Open-Source Software Licensing (GNU GPLv3)

Rufus itself is open-source software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3). Nothing on this website alters, restricts, or supersedes the rights granted to you by the GPLv3 license when downloading, modifying, or redistributing the original software. Complete source code for Rufus is hosted publicly on GitHub at https://github.com/pbatard/rufus.

4. User Responsibilities & Data Safety Disclaimer

When utilizing Rufus or formatting USB storage devices based on tutorials or guides provided on this website, you understand and acknowledge that:

• Writing disk images, generating bootable media, and formatting partitions are destructive operations that permanently erase existing data on target drives.
• You are exclusively responsible for creating complete, verified backups of all important files prior to initiating any drive operations.
• Neither this website nor its administrators shall be held liable for any data loss, hardware malfunction, firmware corruption, or partition errors resulting from following instructions on this site.

5. Disclaimer of Warranties

All materials, documentation, technical specifications, and download mirrors presented on this Site are provided strictly on an "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" basis, without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement.

6. Intellectual Property & Content Rights

The original written articles, guides, code samples, comparison matrices, and visual designs created for this Site are protected by copyright law. You may not scrape, republish, or syndicate our unique articles in bulk without prior written permission.

7. Changes to Terms

We reserve the right to revise or amend these Terms at any time without prior notice. By continuing to use the Site following any modifications, you agree to be bound by the revised terms.