Disclosures for Uniquely Zee Blog
Per the FTC regulations, this is a full explanation of how and when I am compensated on www.uniquely1zee.com.
My Why
On January 2018, I started this website as a personal venture with the hope of offering encouragement to women just like me – wives, moms, sisters, friends, and entrepreneurs. I enjoy writing as a means to pour out my soul to God, get rid of thoughts dangling in my brain, expressing difficult things, and as a means of encouraging other women.
My integrity as a blogger is extremely important to me. I will never promote something, even if I am offered compensation for that promotion if I don’t feel it is worth your time, energy, or money. I will never endorse or recommend a person, a product, a business, a church or a ministry that I do not trust or totally believe in. Occasionally, I may be invited to review a certain product. Please know that if I do, I will provide my honest feedback.
This blog does have costs associated with it, including hosting fees, blog design, and the time involved in keeping the blog going.
There are many ways to be compensated for this and I could receive some compensation for:
Underwritten Posts
Occasionally companies will offer to underwrite a post in order to expose the Ministry of Hope audience to their brand or company. These posts are written solely by me on a subject or topic selected by me, but agreed upon by the company I am working with.
These posts represent my own honest opinion and are not typically reviewed or edited by the company prior to publication. (Although this year, two of these companies have asked to see a final copy before it was published).
Be assured that I will only work with companies whose values align with those represented on this blog, and I will only write content that I think would be of genuine interest to you, my readers. Underwritten posts will always be clearly disclosed as such.
Affiliate Marketing
Another source of revenue for Uniquely Zee comes from commissions I make off from sales or leads generated through affiliate linking. I will not link to something just because it is an affiliate link. I believe in the Golden Rule and I want to treat my followers the same way I would expect to be treated.
Often the reverse is true; I will find a company I like and recommend that I was planning on writing about anyway, and then after the post is already written I will look to see if there is an affiliate program available.
The following are some, but not all, of the companies, I frequently link to using affiliate links: A Simple Year, Courtney Carver, Coupons.com, Work At Home, Health Talks Online, The Confident Mom, Thrive Market, and Elite Blog Academy.
We are also a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.
If you click on an affiliate link and print a coupon, sign up for a service or order a product, I will earn a commission.
Cookies
A cookie consists of information sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser. The information is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables the web server to identify and track the web browser.
We may use both “session” cookies and “persistent” cookies on the Site for the purpose of creating better recommendations. And, we will use the session cookies to keep track of you whilst you navigate the Site. We will use the persistent cookies to enable the Site to recognize you when you visit.
Session cookies will be deleted from your computer when you close your browser. Persistent cookies may remain stored on your computer until deleted, or until they reach a specified expiry date. We use these persistent cookies to better serve you with the kinds of content that we feel may be of interest to you.
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of the Site. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about the Site use by means of cookies, which are stored on users’ computers. The information generated relating to the Site is used to create reports about the use of the Site. Google will store this information. Google’s privacy policy is available at http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html.
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads and collect information when users visit our site. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements on our site, other websites and other forms of media about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, check out http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.
Most browsers allow you to reject all cookies, whilst some browsers allow you to reject just third party cookies. For example, in Internet Explorer, you can refuse all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block all cookies” using the sliding selector. Blocking all cookies will, however, have a negative impact on the usability of many websites, including this one.
If you have any concerns about this policy, please feel free to email me.