In this litigious society that has developed in the United States, it has become necessary to dot a ton of needless “T”s and “I”s, so here are mine:
Disclaimer:
The FTC requires bloggers to provide disclosures whenever there could be hidden interests or unspoken biases related to recommendations.
Per the FTC rules, if I interview someone and they grab the bill for lunch, I would need to specify this. Ditto if I use an Amazon link that gets me $.03 instead of an Amazon link that gets me $.00. If someone gives me a comfy T-shirt with a logo and I wear it in a photo, same deal. Disclaimers would be all over the place.
This would be tedious for me and a continual eye sore for readers. But rules are rules and I have spent too much on attorneys of late to have to make further additions to my legal eagles’ kids college funds over little stuff like this, so here goes:
Please assume that, for every recommendation, link, and product I use, write about, think about, talk about or mention in my sleep the following any one or some combination hold true:
Please feel free to use the text and images on this page with proper attribution.
There is no reason why each blogger should have to reinvent the wheel. Besides, something are just perfect the way they are! I claim no copyright on this page.
Also many thanks to Louis Gray and Jeannine Schafer for their great illustrations
Please feel free to use the text and images on this page with proper attribution.