I’ve recently rolled out some official sounding policies for this website, most recently my Disclosure Policy. Although I am not based in the USA, most of my readers are, and this policy is designed to comply with the requirements set out in the recent FTC ruling with regards to bloggers that get paid to write about stuff. Although my policy is not an exact copy of John Chow’s disclosure policy, I will certainly admit that it is essentially a rip-off of some of his thoughts on this matter.

In summary:

• Almost all of my pages and articles include advertisements that I get paid for.
• Almost all of my links are encoded with affiliate marketing codes so that I get paid if you click on them.
• I will happily take products for free in order to review them. Having said that everything I’ve reviewed on my site so far have been items that I purchased myself for my own use. That will eventually change.
• Just because I’m getting paid for advertisements, links, or if I get a free product for review purposes doesn’t mean that my reviews will be positive or slanted in favor of that product or advertiser. Having said that, I generally only use products or services that I like, and most of my reviews will be about those products or services. Therefore they are probably going to be positive reviews more often than not.

All of this applies equally to my posts on Facebook and Twitter, and on many other social media sites and services.

The full text of my disclosure policy can be found on my Policies page. Note that this policy is closely linked to our Advertising Policy, which can also be found on the Policies page.

That is all.