Policies and Legal

Publication Policy

We’re focused on frequent, quality posts here at Self Reliance Works. We promise to do our best to provide:

  • original, well written posts with appropriate photos, graphics, audio and video
  • posts at least once a day
  • links to related posts and relevant resources
  • respect for our reader’s time and attention
  • honest review of products and services, with recommendations based only on our personal knowledge, experience or planned future use
  • disclosure of sources and references in our posts

Disclaimer

Self Reliance Works provides information on an “as-is” basis. We try our best to provide information, suggestions, instructions, opinions and examples that we believe have value to our readers. Our authors strive to provide accurate and truthful information, but we provide no warranties or representations, expressed or implied, about the veracity, completeness or usefulness of the information provided herein.

If as a reader, you are seeking definitive information and advice for crucial decision-making in your life, then we suggest you consult an appropriate professional who specializes in your area of need. Since we have no knowledge of your life situation or circumstances, Self Reliance Works doesn’t warrant or represent anything on this website, or anything provided in response to your inquiries, as constituting advice.

Furthermore, we will not be liable for whether or how our readers might use, misuse, or misinterpret information we present since we have no reasonable way of controlling that. As a free source of information, we cannot assume any responsibility for direct, indirect, special or consequential damages or losses that might be associated with readers who voluntarily use the site as a source of information and entertainment.

In addition, we cannot attest to the veracity, completeness or usefulness of comments provided by others, and any link provided in the site is done so as a courtesy, and does not constitute an endorsement by Self Reliance Works.

We use a third party hosting service, so we cannot warrant that this site or any of its features will be available for those interested in accessing it; however, we do make a reasonable effort to see to it that the hosting service we use is reliable.

By using this site and the information it contains, you agree that you’re doing so at your own risk, and you further agree to the limitations as stated in the foregoing. If you don’t agree, then you should not use this site or any information, comment or link provided herein.

Privacy Policy

At Self Reliance Works your privacy is important and protected.

As technology on the Internet advances, all participants are subject to many and varied forms of information collection. In many cases, this is how providers of services can offer a convenient and responsive user experience. Although we receive and collect personal information, we won’t engage in any activity that knowingly violates your right to privacy.

We may collect personally identifiable information on a voluntary basis. Such information may include name and email address. This information is collected if you request information from us, contact us with a comment or question, subscribe to the site, participate in a survey, or request some other service or information. Personal information received is used for internal purposes only and will not be sold or provided to third parties.

We may use cookies to help personalize your online experience. Cookies are identifiers that are transferred to your computer through the browser to enable our system to recognize that you have returned to a particular page. You can accept or decline cookies by modifying your Web browser. Doing so affects the interactive features of the site.

Web beacons can be used by sites to monitor traffic. They may be used in association with cookies to understand how visitors interact with the pages and content of the website. We may serve third party advertisements that use cookies and web beacons in the course of ads being served to ascertain how many times you’ve seen an advertisement. No personally identifiable information you give us is provided to them for cookie or web beacon use.

In some cases, we may collect information about visitors that is not personally identifiable. We use this information to gain insight on visitor behavior in order to better administer the site. Information collected is used only for internal purposes and not shared with other organizations.

We are committed to protect your personal information as a user of our service. If you have submitted personal information and would like that information deleted, please contact us and we will make all reasonable efforts to comply with your request.

We reserve the right to update this policy on occasion.

If you do not agree to our privacy policy, please do not use this site or any of our services. Your use of the Self Reliance Works indicates your acceptance of our privacy policy.

Disclosure

Self Reliance Works is a collaborative blog written by a group of individuals under the direction and guidance of the owner. For questions about this blog or its team of writers, please contact  Clair(the “at” sign)Self(dash)Reliance(dash)Works(period)com

Similar to television, radio, newspapers and magazines, this blog accepts forms of paid advertising, sponsorship, editorial content, donations, and other forms of compensation to help pay the bills associated with providing this free service to our readers. The big difference between this website and other forms of media is that we’re picky about what we advertise. We won’t run an ad that is deliberately misleading, no matter how much someone is willing to pay us.

Compensation received by this blog may influence advertising content, topics or posts. Such content is not necessarily identified as paid or sponsored because it must meet the same publication standards as our regular posts (e.g. well written and providing a good “take away” for our readers). When paid content appears as a post, it will always be identified as a guest post, however, the overwhelming majority of guest posts you see on the site are not paid content, but posts provided voluntarily by interested readers and gratefully accepted as part of our rich content. Also, no paid content is ever written or presented by our team of writers, including the owner. We don’t use our writing team as paid spokespersons like what you might see on television – it’s just not ethical to do so.

The owner and writing team of this blog are not compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites or other topics. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely that of the regular writing team, including the owner. If we claim or appear to be experts on a certain topic, product or service area, we will only endorse what we believe, based on our expertise, is worthy of such an endorsement. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer or provider.

This blog may contain content which might present a conflict of interest, but we will do our best to avoid having conflicts of interest. If we’re aware of a potential conflict of interest, we’ll do our best to identify it to our readers.

Comment Policy

We welcome your participation here and maintain a comment policy that promotes open discussion of new ideas and opposing views; a genuine conversation in the best interest of our readers. If you would like to leave a comment, we expect it to be substantive in nature and relevant to the post. Ideally, your comments will provide added-value or otherwise further the conservation. All comments are moderated. Trite or off-topic comments are deleted. Comments that add value but are largely promotional are edited. Blatant promotions or other spam is managed by our spam catcher to prevent it from ever appearing on the site.