Disclosure Policy
In my english class this week, we’re having a discussion about ads on blogs and the sort and there was a comment made:
“I guess it would be nice if the bloggers being paid were upfront about the fact that they’re mentioning corporations for profit….”
There is now an easy way for bloggers to make their readers aware of the content that’s on their blogs and if it’s being paid for or not. DisclosurePolicy.Org makes it easy by asking bloggers a series of six questions and then taking their answers and creating a policy for them to display on their website.
I’ve went ahead and created a policy since, as of this entry, some of my entries will be for profit. What’s cool about the policy is that there’s several options for each question and I was able to make it clear that while some of the posts on my site are for profit, they don’t influence what I write (I get to choose what I write for and I get to choose the opinion I write), and I will make it known that they are for profit entries (as this one is).
My policy is posted on it’s very own page entitled ‘Disclosure Policy‘ that is clearly seen on the front page of my site in the righthand navigation bar, but for giggles and grins, I’m going to post it here as well:
This policy is valid from 29 November 2006
This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. For questions about this blog, please contact Court (court At travelingthoughts Dot com).
This blog accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation.
The compensation received will never influence the content, topics or posts made in this blog. All advertising is in the form of advertisements generated by a third party ad network. Those advertisements will be identified as paid advertisements.
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 not contain any content which might present a conflict of interest.
To get your own policy, go to http://www.disclosurepolicy.org/