FTC Statement
The disclosure that follows is designed to ensure The Healthy Southerner is in full compliance with the Federal Trade Commission’s policy that demands The Healthy Southerner be transparent about any and all affiliate relations The Healthy Southerner may have on this website. In plain English, you, the visitor or customer, should assume that any and all links on this site are affiliate links. If you click on these links and go visit the resulting site, a cookie will be set in your web browser that will cause us to receive a commission “IF” you purchase a product on the other end. This is a legitimate way to monetize and pay for the operation of web sites and The Healthy Southerner gladly reveals our affiliate relationships to you.
In addition, The Healthy Southerner fully discloses that hyperlinks on this site are in most cases shortened, and in some cases cloaked to hide long ugly links for functionality and tracking purposes. The Healthy Southerner has nothing to hide, and The Healthy Southerner is proud of our relationship with the fine vendors, products and services found on this site. Link tracking, shortening, and cloaking is a very common practice on all types of web sites.
Further, The Healthy Southerner does not receive physical products or cash directly in exchange for any reviews or posts you find on this site unless clearly stated at the beginning of the review post. Unless it is clearly stated at the beginning of the post, no one has paid us to do reviews or posts. The Healthy Southerner has to tell you that it is possible that our reviews and posts are influenced by our affiliate relationships and may create a conflict of interest. The Healthy Southerner does not believe a conflict of interest exists, but you, the visitor or customer, must decide by considering the affiliate relationships and link techniques The Healthy Southerner has described. Obviously, The Healthy Southerner would like you to buy the service or products The Healthy Southerner writes about, and The Healthy Southerner is influenced by that fact. The Healthy Southerner avoids conflict by only reviewing or posting about products and services The Healthy Southerner trusts. There are plenty of products that The Healthy Southerner can choose from to promote, and The Healthy Southerner focuses on the ones that The Healthy Southerner thinks will cause you to trust us and come back to read more of our feedback. The Healthy Southerner strives to always give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on topics or products The Healthy Southerner write about and promote.
Other vendors may also pay to place advertising on our sites in the form of banners, widgets, and hyperlinks. These are paid advertisements and while The Healthy Southerner does it’s best to only allow quality products and services to be advertised on our site, The Healthy Southerner is not responsible for claims or testimonials made on paid advertising links.