If you require any more information or have any questions about any of the following information, please feel free to contact us by email at joe@dappered.com. What follows is a bunch of legal stuff, necessary to protect you, as well as us. Here we go:
FTC disclosures and affiliate information
The owners and editors of Dappered.com reserve the right to use affiliate programs to generate income needed to keep Dappered free and uncluttered. Affiliate links help us pay the bills, keep ad space to a minimum (we like having only two ad spaces on the home page), and keep the content machine running.
Dappered does NOT take money in order to review a product, run a promotion, or conduct a giveaway. Nor do we keep free samples of any kind and often shell out of our own pocket for shipping costs to send any photo samples back. We believe in staying as independent and unbiased as we can, but we also realize that when there’s an opportunity to use an affiliate program to generate income, it’s a smart decision to make use of it.
What’s an affiliate program? Affiliate programs allow retailers and brands to track where clicks to their websites are coming from. A commission (y’know, dollars, sometime cents) can be paid out to that website (in this case, us, Dappered) if the person chooses to buy the product.
Our affiliate programs include but are not limited to: Amazon.com, Shopstyle/Shopsense, Click Junction, LinkShare, ShareASale, Skimlinks, Ebay Enterprises, Impact Radius, and iDevAffiliate. Brands are constantly dropping in and out of different affiliate programs, so a full list would be almost impossible, but here’s a few brands we have some kind affiliate relationship with: Allen Edmonds, Express, Banana Republic, Gap, Old Navy, J. Crew, J. Crew Factory, Bonobos, Uniqlo, Huckberry, Saddleback, John Varvatos, Indochino, Brooks Brothers, Topman, Florsheim, Fossil, Nordstrom, Macys, Lands’ End, Sierra Trading Post, Yoox, Ralph Lauren, Boden, Timex, Orvis, Club Monaco, Coach, Bloomingdale’s, Saks, Skymall (yes, Skymall)… the list goes on and on. Does our relationship with these brands influence what goes up on the site? Absolutely not. Have we given poor reviews to products produced by companies and brands we have affiliate relationships with? You bet.
It’s honestly best to assume that every single last link that points to a retailer has some sort of affiliate connection to us. That’d be the goal at least. Again, that doesn’t influence our content or our opinions on products. Here’s why…
The editors of Dappered pride themselves on being a down to earth bunch with good style judgement, so know that they won’t be pushing crap just to make a couple of bucks. Because if it’s crap… you the visitor will stop visiting. And if you stop visiting, what’s the point?
The Dappered.com Disclaimer
Dappered, this website, is for entertainment purposes only. While we pride ourselives on providing accurate information, visitors use information on this site at their own risk. Dappered LLC will not compensate anyone in any way for losses or negative impacts suffered while making use of information found amongst the many posts, pages, and archives of Dappered.com
Previously Published Posts
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Comments and the responsibility of those leaving comments
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Privacy Policy
At www.dappered.com, the privacy of our visitors is extremely important to us. We get it, and we respect and share your enthusiasm for privacy. Dappered will never sell any information you give to us. This privacy policy document outlines the types of personal information is received and collected by www.dappered.com and how it is used.
Log Files
Like many other Web sites, www.dappered.com makes use of log files. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol ( IP ) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider ( ISP ), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses, and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.
Cookies and Web Beacons
www.dappered.com does use cookies to store information about visitors preferences, record user-specific information on which pages the user access or visit, customize Web page content based on visitors browser type or other information that the visitor sends via their browser.
A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor’s hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.
DoubleClick DART Cookie
Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on www.dappered.com.
Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to users based on their visit to www.dappered.com and other sites on the Internet.
Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL – http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html
More on Cookies and Web Beacons
Some of our advertising and affiliate partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. Our advertising and affiliate partners include ….
Google Adsense, Google Affiliates, Commission Junction, Linkshare, Amazon, ShopStyle/ShopSense
These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to the advertisements and links that appear on www.dappered.com send directly to your browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies ( such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons ) may also be used by the third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and / or to personalize the advertising content that you see.
www.dappered.com has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. www.dappered.com’s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.
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