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Full Disclosure
First of all I wish that money did not exist. I wish we could all live our passions and contibute to each other freely because that’s what we love to do. Unfortunately, that is not how this world currently works. So because of this, I have to play by the rules of the current game. Therefore, it is important to let everyone know that I do make money from products and books that I review and refer people toward buying on this site. I strive to only promote products that I have truly found useful and beneficial for my own life and therefore consider them worthy for other people too. I strive to be sincere and authentic. Please keep this in mind. Also, if you do want to support me and this site, you can do so by purchasing products through links within this site.
Privacy Policy
The Sam Effect takes online privacy very seriously, and strives to protect the privacy of the users of our websites and those who subscribe to our services. We will not rent, sell, lease, or give away any of your personal information. Additionally, here are policies regarding other parts of this website.
RSS Subscriptions: This website records information about how people access our RSS feeds, but does not collect any personally identifying information from or about our RSS subscribers.
Cookies and web beacons: Third parties (including advertising services) may be placing and reading cookies on your browser in the normal course of providing services to this website. Some services on this site also may use web beacons (tiny small transparent images) to collect information in the course of providing services to this website. Your web browser should have options to manage cookies should this be desirable. Consult your browser’s help section for information on viewing, setting, and changing these options.
Google and the DoubleClick DART Cookie: Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites 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.
Collection of non-personally-identifiable information by third parties: Third parties (including advertising services) may be placing and reading cookies on your browser in the normal course of providing services to this website. Some services on this site also may use web beacons (tiny small transparent images) to collect information in the course of providing services to this website. Your web browser should have options to manage cookies should this be desirable. Consult your browser’s help section for information on viewing, setting, and changing these options. We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. 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 about goods and services of interest to you.
E-mail Subscriptions: This website’s feed services collect the e-mail addresses of individuals that subscribe to our RSS feed via e-mail. Individual information about subscribers to this website’s feed is held in strict confidence; we will not release or disclose any specific subscriber information under any circumstances, unless required by law. Aggregated information stripped of any personally identifiable information may be disclosed.
Web Server Traffic: This website records information about how people access this website. This includes things such as your IP address (or DNS), your browser, and your operating system. We do not and will not use this information to track down any personally identifiable information about you, unless required by law.
Comments: Comments submitted to this website are the responsibility of the commenter. We reserve the right to remove or edit comments at our discretion. Site URLs (if provided) are published along with comments. E-mail addresses are required with the submission of comments but are not disclosed, unless the commenter deliberately does so him/herself by entering the e-mail address in the main comment box in addition to the box clearly labeled for the e-mail address.
E-mail: E-mail sent to the site either through the contact form or directly to the owner in connection with this site is considered property of this site, and questions or tips may be published at the owner’s option. In such cases, this website will not disclose any personally identifying information, unless required to by law.
External Links: The web site contains links to other websites not owned by the owner of this website. We will not, and cannot, control how your personal information is used on these other websites. Consult the privacy policies of the linked websites to see how they use your information.
