Privacy and policies

Copyright

Is the material in this website protected by copyright?

You bet it is! The material in this website belongs to the owners of this website, and is protected by copyright laws in local and foreign jurisdictions as well as international treaties. Furthermore, most our pictures are registered in the US, which means that there is a mandatory penalty for violating our copyright, regardless of whether you made any profit from it, you will also be ordered to pay all our legal costs should it come to it. The material in our website cannot be used without prior written consent from the owner.

Please, ask for permission before you use our material. We may allow you to use limited portions of our content for non-commercial purposes, and at least we expect you to link back to us. Play nice, it’s good for the soul.

If you wish to license our pictures, or commission some from us, we are available, please contact us for a quote. Our prices are very reasonable.

All the photos and material in our site have been produced by us, or, in rare cases, either len to us, or paid by us. We have the utmost respect for copyright, if you wish to inquire about any material in our sites, please contact us immediately.

Our Privacy Statement (because it does matter)

The content of this site is as innocuous as it can be. Our forums are moderated and, frankly, we are just a bunch of nice people who ponder the advantages of using a tostón masher over using the bottom of a glass bottle. Nothing to be excited about.

Comments are moderated and screened. We will, within reason and reach of our resources, try to keep the content child and work-safe.  Your child will be pretty safe here anyway.

“What do you do with the information that you collect from visitors?”

As frequent victims ourselves of that modern plague, the spammer, we respect your privacy in the same way that we wish everybody did. We do not give away, sell or use the information that you give to us in any way, other than for its intended purpose. We use cookies to collect statistics, but this in no way compromise the safety of, nor does it reveal sensitive data in your computer.

When you subscribe to our mailing list you will receive updates every time we add new content to our site. This email may contain advertisement (it does not at this time). If you have any other questions about our policy, please, contact us.

This site uses cookies (not the delicious kind) to collect statistics, and to confirm visits to our sponsored links, these cannot be traced back to you, or disclose your personal information.

Ah, and death to spammers! (but in a nice and humane way).

Comment Policy

This is a personal blog, imagine that you are visiting somebody’s home, behave accordingly. Criticism that is not written respectfully will be deleted. Abusive comments will be deleted. Spamming comments will be deleted. Comments that use inappropriate language will be deleted. In fact we can delete comments for any reason we can think of (not that we necessarily will).

Non-commercial site owners can enter their website in the URL box. Please do not peddle your site in the content of the comment, or we will delete it. We visit commenters and love to find other websites, but please be respectful to our audience and to us.

We may edit comments where we find grammar or spelling errors that might make it difficult for others to understand your comment.

We will permanently block people that spam or leave rude comments.

We are not responsible for the content of comments left by anyone but Ilana and Clara. Please report any comments that you find spamming, abusive or that uses inappropriate language.

We will not delete comments just because we are asked to. Please don’t post anything that you don’t want to come back to haunt you later.

Advertisement and sponsorship

This policy is valid from 03 March 2012

Unless otherwise-specified, links to products and commercial websites are paid for or may contain affiliate code (Mostly Amazon links). We will receive all of several cents (or dollars if you buy like a giant TV) out of  your purchase from the business. This commission is built-into their pricing, so it doesn’t cost you anything. If for some reason you do not wish to use our affiliate links, just go directly to the website by typing the URL in your browser navigation window.

Almost all the products we recommend (unless otherwise clearly stated) we have bought with our own hard-earned-but-scarce money, and we’ll inform you of it, We may also suggest products that we have not bought but deem interesting or useful, we’ll tell you either way.

This blog is a collaborative blog written by a group of individuals. This blog accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation.

The compensation received may influence the advertising content, topics or posts made in this blog. That content, advertising space or post will always be identified as paid or sponsored editorial 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  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

Use

The content on this site is meant as general information. We may not be held liable for damages due to the use of this content. It is also not intended to substitute for medical or professional advice.