By the way…
Those crazy FTC folks think people like me should disclose if I’m paid for any of my posts or not.
Here’s how things work around here:
I am the only one who writes anything over here. My name is Calissa. (Like in the name of the site, OK?) It’s a personal blog that has all sorts of crazy things on it.
This blog is all about my opinion. It’s why it’s a blog and not a forum. Comments are always left open for those who don’t spam, but otherwise you can say what you want. What you say belongs to you, but gets published on this blog. I don’t keep any of your information if you share it here. I may or may not respond to a comment.
If I get an offer from PayPerPost or another site, it’s always labeled with the “Paid Advertisement” tag. I may add a “Sponsored” tag later.
Paid Advertisements are links or ads that get put into posts, and these posts are directly paid by the link posted in the post.
A Sponsor may have given me a freebie or sample to try out and asked me to post on my blog about it.
I occasionally get free things or coupons in my emails, and I’m happy to share those, but those that are Sponsored or Paid Advertisements are disclosed no matter what.
I try to be choosy about the advertisements I post. I won’t post anything illegal.
The few dollars I make with this blog goes to me, and the cost of running this site usually is more than what I earn. In some cases, like the Sponsors, I don’t get paid. I get a freebie. I’ll review it here. The freebie doesn’t influence what I have to say about it. I get freebies all the time. I don’t mind telling a company what I don’t like about something.
I don’t review paid advertisements. I just advertise those. I don’t review things I haven’t tried.
Sometimes I review stuff without being sponsored. These aren’t marked with “Sponsor” or anything else. I just liked or disliked something so I talked about it.
On occasion, when I’m offered by a Sponsor to give something away, I’ll give it away to random people who read my blog or post. Feel free to participate or not.
And if you owned a blog like mind, you’d accept a little bit of money for a link or two here and there, too. Don’t lie. You know you wanna…
For the legal jargon:
This policy is valid from 13 March 2010
This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. For questions about this blog, please contact me. I can be reached by email at travel . clh (at) g mail dot comm or you can call or text me at 337
This blog accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation.
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.
This blog does contain content which might present a conflict of interest. This content will always be identified.
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