Second life: Suitable drives may be tested, wiped where possible, listed, and sold as donor or resale inventory instead of going straight to scrap.

Data-recovery benefit: Donor drives can help recovery customers and labs find matches for damaged media.

Scrap comparison: Hard-drive scrap value may be very low. Under this program, Aceon pays the partner USD 30 for each submitted drive that successfully sells.

No guaranteed sale: Payment is due only after a successful final sale and collected payment. Aceon does not buy every drive received.

Aceon discretion: Aceon may accept, reject, hold, test, wipe, list, delist, reprice, sell, recycle, discard, return, or decline any submitted hardware at its discretion.

No purchase on receipt: Sending hardware to Aceon does not create a purchase, guaranteed sale, guaranteed payout, guaranteed return, guaranteed storage commitment, or guaranteed processing timeline.

Payout condition: No payout is due for drives that are unsold, rejected, recycled, returned, held, failed, damaged, incompatible, wiped, destroyed, lost, stolen, abandoned, forfeited, not listed, not accepted, not paid for by a buyer, refunded, charged back, disputed, seized, legally restricted, or otherwise not completed as a final successful sale.

Risk review: Aceon may withhold, offset, delay, or reverse payout for fraud risk, buyer dispute, chargeback, return, title issue, privacy issue, legal claim, inaccurate submission, or other unresolved risk tied to the hardware.

Ownership and authority: The partner confirms it owns the submitted hardware or has full legal authority to send it to Aceon for testing, wiping where possible, resale, recycling, return, abandonment, or other handling under these terms.

No hidden restrictions: The partner confirms the hardware is free of undisclosed liens, theft claims, lease restrictions, customer restrictions, destruction-only requirements, privacy restrictions, export restrictions, security restrictions, or third-party rights that would prevent Aceon from handling or selling it.

Required approvals: The partner confirms it has all consents, permissions, and internal approvals required to provide the hardware to Aceon.

No destruction-only media: Partners must not send hardware that a customer, contract, law, policy, or regulator requires to be destroyed rather than evaluated for resale.

Partner data responsibility: The partner remains responsible for all data, personal information, confidential information, regulated information, credentials, software, encryption keys, customer data, and other content that may exist on submitted hardware.

Pre-shipment sanitization: Partners should wipe, sanitize, encrypt, or otherwise secure drives before providing them to Aceon unless a separate written instruction says otherwise.

Wipe where possible: Aceon will attempt to wipe drives where practical and possible during intake, testing, catalog preparation, or other handling.

No wipe guarantee: Wiping may not be possible for damaged, locked, encrypted, unstable, inaccessible, firmware-locked, physically defective, non-responsive, or otherwise unsuitable drives. Aceon does not guarantee complete wiping, certified sanitization, data destruction, privacy compliance, certificate generation, or unrecoverability unless Aceon separately agrees in writing to a specific paid data-destruction service and standard.

Not certified destruction: Resale evaluation and donor-drive handling are different from certified destruction. If a partner requires guaranteed destruction, certified erasure, chain-of-custody destruction, or a destruction certificate, the partner must not use this consignment lane unless Aceon separately agrees in writing.

No assumption of liability: To the maximum extent permitted by law, Aceon assumes no liability for submitted hardware, including loss, theft, disappearance, breakage, damage, degradation, testing failure, electrical failure, firmware change, data loss, data exposure, wiping outcome, shipping damage, storage damage, misidentification, label/OCR error, listing error, delay, rejection, recycling, disposal, or failure to sell.

No insurer or warehouse role: Aceon is not an insurer, bailee for reward, warehouse operator, certified destruction provider, or custodian of guaranteed-value goods unless a separate signed written agreement says so.

Testing and listing limits: Aceon may test, inspect, photograph, scan labels, record serial/model/firmware information, wipe where possible, and use automated or manual tools to create listing data. These processes may produce errors or incomplete information.

Listing category: Aceon may list hardware as used, donor, tested, untested, parts-only, as-is, or any other category Aceon considers appropriate, and may set or change pricing at its discretion.

Five-year period: Unless Aceon and the partner agree otherwise in writing, Aceon may hold unsold submitted hardware for up to five years from Aceon's recorded receipt date.

Return request: At any time before the fifth anniversary of Aceon's recorded receipt date, the partner may request return of unsold identifiable hardware that remains in Aceon's possession and has not been sold, recycled, discarded, destroyed, used, lost, or otherwise disposed of.

Return conditions: Return is subject to Aceon's ability to identify and locate the hardware, the partner's payment of all return shipping/handling costs, and any required legal or operational hold.

Forfeiture after five years: After five years from Aceon's recorded receipt date, any unsold submitted hardware that has not been returned to the partner is deemed abandoned and forfeited to Aceon to the maximum extent permitted by law. Aceon may then keep, sell, recycle, destroy, use, discard, or otherwise dispose of the hardware without compensation to the partner and without further liability.

Written request details: Return requests must be in writing and identify the batch, approximate delivery date, quantity, drive models, serial numbers where available, and return address. Aceon may require identity, authority, and shipping-cost confirmation before releasing any hardware.

Compliance responsibility: The partner is responsible for complying with all privacy, security, customer, contractual, industry, export, environmental, and data-handling obligations that apply to the hardware before it is sent to Aceon.

Indemnity: The partner agrees to defend, indemnify, and hold Aceon harmless from claims, demands, losses, fines, penalties, investigations, costs, damages, expenses, legal fees, customer complaints, privacy complaints, title claims, ownership disputes, regulatory issues, or third-party claims arising from submitted hardware, data left on hardware, lack of authority, inaccurate information, breach of law, breach of contract, or breach of these terms.

Liability cap: To the maximum extent permitted by law, Aceon's total aggregate liability to the partner for any submitted item is limited to the unpaid payout actually due from a completed successful sale of that specific item.

Excluded damages: Aceon is not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, special, punitive, exemplary, privacy, data-loss, business-interruption, profit-loss, customer-loss, reputation-loss, replacement-cost, project-delay, or substitute-sourcing damages.