This policy is valid from 10 May 2009 {Updated October 2011}
This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. For questions about this blog, please contact Melissa (shimmermeblue23@yahoo.com).
This blog accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation. These are always clearly stated. I will never endorse a company/product that I don’t agree with.
This blog abides by word of mouth marketing standards. We 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(s) of this blog is compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. Even though the owner(s) of this blog receives compensation for our posts or advertisements, we always give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the bloggers’ own. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question.
We do receive product to review. We usually won’t post a negative review, because we believe in promoting only products that we actually like and would use. The compensation {products or monetary} never influencs our opinions.
The owner(s) of this blog would like to disclose the following existing relationships. These are companies, organizations or individuals that may have a significant impact on the content of this blog. We write sponsored posts for: Collective Bias, Social Spark and Mom Central on a regular basis and others on occasion.
We allow third party companies to serve ads and/or collect certain anonymous information when you visit our Web site. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g. click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice visit the NAI at http://www.networkadvertising.org. To opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices.
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