Dear PC: Personable Computer Customer,

                As a business, we are heavily committed to protecting ourselves from any and all unfair and unjust legal attacks.  That being said, before we perform any services on your computers, you will be required to sign a form stating that we are not responsible for any loss of personal or legal data on your memory-retaining hardware.  We will by no means ever intentionally delete your data, and we are trained not to accidentally delete your data.  However, as a customer you need to be informed that accidents can happen when working on computer hardware.

                Like all other electronic equipment, computer peripherals are sensitive to static, magnetism, power surges, interference, and all other electrical anomalies.  We take every precaution here at PC: Personable Computer to prevent disasters from happening, but no human on earth is capable of stopping all of nature's dangerous forces.

                We fix computers.  We try our hardest to work miracles in the field of computer repair, but we cannot be held responsible when lightning strikes, when hard drives suddenly decide that they've had their last spin, when motherboards finally seem to admit that they've had a second-hand smoking problem since the day their owner bought them, etc.

                All in all, we are not responsible for any loss of customer data.  And this is very similar to the form you will be signing before we work on your computers.  We hope that doesn't scare any of you off.  You will have to sign the same form no matter where you take your computer.  It's how we, as technicians, protect ourselves from being sued and losing everything that we've worked for in such a painfully difficult and desperate economy.

 
Thank you for your time and cooperation,

Harry Hanson
PC: Personable Computer President and CEO