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In much of our travel-focused content, you’ll find buttons, ads, or text links that redirect to Amazon and other reputable online retailers and service providers. If you click on one of these affiliate links, and take action (such as purchasing a product or service, booking travel, subscribing or enrolling in something) we may earn a commission on your purchase.
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This commission revenue helps keep us in business, and ensures that we can continue to publish travel tips, reviews, how-tos, and analysis on a regular basis. It also pays for the copious amounts of coffee we run through our coffee maker every day 🙂
The inclusion of affiliate links does not influence the editorial direction of our travel coverage. If we feel something is good, we’ll say so. If, in our opinion, it’s not we’ll tell you that too. We also routinely provide possible solutions that are free (or nearly free) and direct links to smaller companies with no affiliate program if it helps us to write a more complete and useful post about a given topic.
Sponsorships
This blog at times accepts sponsorships, which are clearly disclosed and identified as such. It is our policy to only promote products or services that we ourselves have used and believe are worthy of such endorsement.
Free Products or Services
If we have received a complimentary product or service, or a discount on anything we write about, we will always disclose this information in the post. In addition, we will always give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs or experiences about those topics and products, regardless of whether or not we paid for it. Sponsors/hosts have no editorial influence on articles.
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