Affiliates
This policy is valid from February 3, 2011.
This blog is a personal blog written and edited by Yvette Beaudoinl. For questions about this blog, please contact me at blog at innergeek.us.
The purpose of innergeek.us is to help people embrace their inner geek and to share my own life experiences as a geek girl. It does take time to create all this content, so I participate in affiliate programs and may receive other forms of compensation for my content.
However, no money or free products will ever impact my opinion on a subject or object. I’m going to give mixed or negative reviews of products sometimes and turn down propositions that don’t fit with my ideology. I will never partner with an online casino, for example.
I accept private advertising from companies I am happy to endorse; you can see their images in the sidebar, and I occasionally mention them in posts, but I usually say they’re a sponsor.
My affiliate advertisers include or have included:
- ThinkGeek
- Plasticland
- AreYouGame
- Hot Topic
- WebUndies.com
- SnorgTees
- Others in the Commission Junction network
- Others in the Shareasale network
If you click on an ad or text link to these companies within my site and buy something, I get a little kickback. Unless I’ve reviewed the product and mentioned that they provided the product to me, none of these companies pays me in any other way.
I also participate in Amazon.com’s affiliate program. If you click on an Amazon link or photo at my site, I get a (small) commission, as long as you purchase exactly what I recommend within 24 hours. They’re strict at Amazon!
Special giveaways: Crown Publishing has generously provided me with free books for review and occasionally a giveaway that is relevant to my audience. I am open to doing this for more companies because I see it as a win-win situation. I pledge to be honest in my reviews, though, so either I will convey my true opinion of a product I don’t like or I will return it and refrain from writing a negative review.
When I run a giveaway, I have usually received a free product to review, and the company has sponsored a free product to give to one of my readers. The review is my own opinion, and although the company in question may certainly read my text (and I encourage them to), they don’t edit or approve it in any way. They also don’t compensate me for reviewing the product beyond providing me with a sample.
