Thursday, February 08, 2007

DISCLOSURE POLICY

This policy is valid from 25th September 2007.

This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. For questions about this blog, please contact Jeff Wharton (Jeff@Wharton.com.au).

This blog does not accept any form of cash advertising, sponsorship, or paid topic insertions. However, I will and do accept and keep free products, services, travel, event tickets, and other forms of compensation from companies and organisations.

The compensation received will never influence the content, topics or posts made in this blog. All advertising is in the form of advertisements generated by a third party ad network. Those advertisements will be identified as paid advertisements.

I am not compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely mine. If I claim or appear to be an expert on a certain topic or product or service area, I will only endorse products or services that I believe, based on my expertise, are worthy of such endorsement. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service are to the best of my knowledge accurate and should be verified with the manufacturer or provider.

I would like to disclose the following existing relationships. These are companies, organisations or individuals that may have a significant impact on the content of this blog:

  • I actively work with, and promote, Microsoft products and technologies.
  • I regularly help out at Microsoft organised/sponsored events.
  • I am a member of the various Microsoft Programs therefore has access to various program benefits.
  • I am a member of Canberra.NET, an ICT Industry cluster initiated by a number of industry stakeholders and supported by the ACT Government, Microsoft and other local stakeholders.
  • I am the President of the Canberra SQL Server User Group.
  • I am employed by WARDY IT Solutions.

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