Beginning on December 1, 2009, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) began requiring blogs containing reviews to disclose any relationships existing between the blog and the manufacturer and/or marketer of the reviewed product or service. For the record, we voluntarily provided such disclosure since 2007 because we felt it was the right thing to do.

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• We are not paid to write reviews.
• We do not accept money to review anything.
• All reviews are done by our own staff and we bear the costs of producing these reviews.
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