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This page contains the accuracy, website visitor privacy, link exchange, and advertising policies of InspectAPedia.com

© Copyright 2009 Daniel Friedman, All Rights Reserved. Information Accuracy & Bias Pledge is at below-left. Use links at the left of each page to navigate this document or to view other topics at this website. Green links show where you are in our document or website.

ACCURACY COMPETENCE HONESTY - Accuracy, Competence, Bias in Website Articles & Information

To assure that information presented at our website is accurate and un-biased, and responsible, we provide careful, researched writing using authoritative information sources, supported by ongoing monitoring, peer reviews, and timely response to criticism.

• We will cite our information sources within the text of articles and at the end of articles where we list references and resources.
  
  
• We solicit technical and peer reviewers of website content from industry experts and other professionals. Where possible identify technical reviewers at the end of each article and provide contact information for them. Since technical research and data can always be improved, we invite and will act quickly on reports of error or inaccuracy. Any reader who knows or believes that there is a mistake or error, inaccuracy, or incompleteness in our website content is asked to contact us by email. We will research the question raised and making any appropriate corrections, additions, or amendments we can discover under the aegis of providing helpful and accurate information to our readers.
  
  
• No financial interest: We guarantee that products, procedures, or other matters discussed are not tainted or made suspect by financial connections between the website author(s) and any products, procedures, or companies discussed at this website.

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WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY - Website Policies on Privacy of our Readers

InspectAPedia.com does not collect nor retain any information about individual readers or visitors to our website. We do make observe and consider in our website content management website traffic numbers such as the number of visitors to specific pages, and web page entry and exit points. We do not provide this information to anyone.

In order to earn money to support the production and hosting of our website we use third-party advertising companies (Google) 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. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here. You can "opt in" or "opt out" of Google's use of this information using information we provide next.

The DoubleClick DART cookie is used by Google in the ads served on publisher websites displaying AdSense for content ads. When users visit an AdSense publisher's website and either view or click on an ad, a cookie may be dropped on that end user's browser. The data gathered from these cookies will be used to help AdSense publishers better serve and manage the ads on their site(s) and across the web.

• Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site.
• Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our site 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.

We subscribe to the Network Advertising Initiative, or NAI, voluntary policies on data collection of non-personally identifying information

Website Content Use Policy

Please see WEBSITE CONTENT USE POLICY - basically, it's OK to make printed copies of our web articles in non-commercial-use - that is, copies in printed form only, do not make electronic copies.

MAKING ELECTRONIC COPIES OF our WEBSITE CONTENTS (such as copying our pages, content from our pages, or our graphics) IS EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED - this website is © protected material, all rights reserved.

Link Exchange & Book, Consultant, Product Listing Policy

Listing & link exchange submissions are welcome from websites whose content, services, or products are appropriate for our readers. To provide your link exchange information and our link exchange policy see InspectAPedia.com - Directory Listing & Link Exchange Instructions. There are no listing fees & no conflicts of interest. We reserve the right to list or not list individuals or companies and to provide notice of consumer compliments or complaints.

The design and content found at InspectAPedia.com^® are © Copyright protected, All Rights Reserved. Contents of this website may not be copied in any form. our main website topics listed at page left and page top provide in-depth, un-biased, expert information on building defect inspection, diagnosis, & repair.

Consultants and Service or Repair Contractors: design consultants, engineers, architects, environmental consultants and similar experts as well as contractors, academics, researchers, and other industry participants can be listed in the appropriate sections of this website at no fee.

Books or other publications on septic system inspection, design, repair, maintenance, and alternative onsite waste disposal designs, technical documents, and other online resources can be listed at appropriate web pages at our site. We invite submissions of books and products for technical review. Product and book reviews are published at this website. Recent book or product reviews can be found listed at Book Reviews - Construction Practices, Building Inspection, Aerobiology, Indoor Air Quality.

Product listings: please include product literature including any available technical research. We also publish reviews products within our areas of expertise.

No Listing Fees: There are no listing fees or charges for consultants, products, or services described at our web pages. Our website policies can be read at Accuracy & Bias Pledge. We reserve the right to list or not list individuals or companies and to provide notice of consumer compliments or complaints

Service Providers or Special Products Listing Contingency

Service providers or Products Will Not be Listed or will be Removed from Listings at our website if by research, study, or public complaint we are informed of (and can confirm) bogus products, junk science claims, dishonest business practices or general incompetence.

Website Advertising Policy

The extensive content and research at this unsupported site many visitors each month. Committed to unbiased research, we will not accept advertising nor list products for which there is not supporting unbiased research on their effectiveness and proper application .

Technical reference books on various environmental and building or construction defects, hazard or environmental inspection and testing, defect recognition, design, repair, maintenance, and alternative solutions & designs, technical documents, and other online resources are listed in the text of technical articles or may be presented as link-lists as part of articles presented at this website at no charge.

Website Advertising Policy

• We accept paid advertising through Google to help defray the operating costs of this website.
• We do not select or approve the advertisers on the site - ads are generated by Google based on our page content.
• Our site has thrived based on offering impartial, unbiased advice and that will not change.
• we have no financial or other relationship with the advertisers who may appear on our web pages, nor do we endorse specific advertisers.
• we have no immediate control over any of the advertisers, but we can and will block advertisements from companies offering junk science products or from companies about whom we receive and can verify business or ethical complaints. Readers with complaints about advertisers are invited to contact us with that information.
• We will block advertisements which we discover or readers inform us are associated with bad business practices, false-advertising, or junk science.
• This is a privately-operated information website. We reserve the right to approve or disapprove any requests for service provider listings.
• Our contact information for technical website content correction or comments about the Google advertisements appearing on some of our web pages is at Contact Us

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On many InspectAPedia.com pages you will find an option to "share" a page. When you select this option, you will be presented with a list of several popular sites where users can share stories with a community of users. These sites are sometimes referred to as "social bookmarking" tools.

InspectAPedia.com provides these bookmarking links as a convenience to our users. These websites to which links to InspectAPedia.com article links can be posted or emailed are not managed by us. Some may require you to create an account to use their features. Be sure to check the terms of use and privacy policies of these sites to understand their practices.

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