Advertising & Affiliate Disclosure

          

This policy is valid December 2009

The Smarter Blogs are sponsored blogs created or supported by a company, organization and/or group of organizations. This blog accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation. Our writers may receive free products or products at a discount to write about such products.

The Smarter Blogs abide by word of mouth marketing standards. We believe in honesty of relationship, opinion and identity. If a product or service mentioned on the Smarter Blogs is a paid or other sponsored advertisement determined by us, this is clearly indicated in the blog post. Even though the Smarter Blogs editors and contributors receive compensation for their posts or advertisements, they always give honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products.  Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider and/or party in question.

The Smarter Blog editors and contributors would like to disclose that a relationship exists between the Smarter Blogs and the merchants who list their products on our search engine, Smarter.com. These are companies that may have a significant impact on the content of this blog.