Privacy and Disclosures

Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective as of January 15, 2010.

What information do I collect?

I collect information from you when you fill out a comment form or contact form.  You are asked to provide your name or e-mail address when commenting or sending a message via the contact form.  You may, however, visit this website anonymously.

What do I use your information for?

Any of the information I collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

– To better understand my visitor demographic and plan site content or features accordingly
– To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature
– To contact you if needed (only if you have won a giveaway or have requested that I contact you).

Do I use cookies?

Yes.  Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computers hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information.

This site may use cookies to understand and save your preferences for future visits.

This site currently hosts Google Ads.  Google utilizes cookies to serve ads that are appropriate to my visitors.  Please click to view the Privacy Policy for Google Ads.

Do we disclose any information to outside parties?

I do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information.  I may release your information to comply with the law, enforce my site policies, or protect my own or other’s rights, property, or safety.

Third party links

Occasionally, at my discretion, I may include or offer third party products or services on my website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. I therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, I seek to protect the integrity of my site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

California Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

Because I value your privacy I have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. I therefore will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent.

Your Consent

By using this website site, you consent to this privacy policy.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

If I decide to change my privacy policy, I will post those changes on this page, and/or update the Privacy Policy modification date below.

This Privacy Policy was last modified on January 15, 2010.

 

Disclosure Statement

This policy is valid from 1 December 2009

This policy is not retroactive.  Content written prior to December 1, 2009 may not fully comply with this policy.

This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. This blog does not accept paid topic insertions or cash compensated reviews. However, I will and do accept and keep free products, services, travel, event tickets, and other forms of compensation from companies and organizations for the purpose of writing accurate reviews based on my own experiences.

This blog abides by word of mouth marketing standards.  I believe in honesty of relationship, opinion and identity. The compensation received may influence the advertising content, topics or posts made in this blog. That content, advertising space or post will be clearly identified as paid or sponsored content.

The owner of this blog is not compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the blog owner’s. If I claim or appear to be an expert on a certain topic or product or service area, I will only endorse products or services that I believe, based on my expertise, are worthy of such endorsement. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer or provider.

This blog does not contain any content which might present a conflict of interest.