Disclosure Policy
Disclosure Policy for Product Reviews
The Federal Trade Commission (F.T.C.) requires that I disclose any relationship I have between a product manufacturer and/or service provider when I write about a product or service.
Here are the guidelines I operate under at FranklinSpellers.com:
- I am never paid by anyone, individual or company, to do a review on their behalf. I have never accepted and never will accept money to review a product or service. I invest my own time to review and test products. I pay out of my own pocket the cost to produce any videos I make about products.
- I don’t always pay for the products I test. Some times they are sent to me by the manufacturer. Rarely, do I request a product. In almost all cases, the manufacturer approaches me first via email.
If I feel it’s a product you might get benefit from, and it fits into my business model, then I request they send me the product. - It is seldom that I return the products after I test them. I am an individual and so don’t have the staff or the resources to process the return of the products. That is made clear to manufacturers when I agree to a product test/review
- If I create a link from my website to a product in a review I have undertaken, sometimes I may get paid a commission if you purchase the product or service. Other times I may not get paid, such are the intricacies of online tracking of purchases.
These are good rules and practices in today’s digital world, rules I fully endorse and adhere to in a clear and transparent manner. I see it as important for you as a consumer to understand the relationship, if any, between a person reviewing the product and the manufacturer or service provider. If you don’t see a disclosure policy as part of a review of a product, that reviewer could well be violating the law or at the very least the Code of Ethics.
Thank you for taking the time to read my affiliate trading disclosure. Enjoy your time @ Franklin Spellers.
Noel Swinton
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