My Disclosure Policy, v.1

As my BlogHer post-mortem indicated, I've come to think that it's important for responsible bloggers to disclose any compensation (including free products, discounts, etc) that they have received in order to be as transparent as possible.  I like to think that I practice what I preach, so I've developed my own disclosure statement for this Kids Meal Crowd blog.

I used an online generator that only took a few minutes.  I have cut and pasted that policy below, with a few modifications.  Some of the questions didn't have *quite* the wording I would have liked to use, so that's the few places I made some changes below.  I plan to review this policy on a regular basis, and will post updates if deemed needed.

And now back to your regularly scheduled broadcast.
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This policy is valid from 02 August 2009

 This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. For questions about this blog, please contact  Danielle.

Even though this is primarily a personal blog that follows the journey of one family, we are open to PR and marketing offers for consideration.  This blogger will only review, test or giveaway products or services that our family would possibly use and that we suspect would be of interest to readers who follow this blog.  This blog will consider accepting 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. When compensation is received, we acknowledge that it may influence the advertising content, topics or posts made in this blog. Any such 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 not contain any content which might present a conflict of interest.


To get your own policy, go to http://www.disclosurepolicy.org