RockStar Machine, LLC. is a for profit company and as such uses various means of income generation which includes the use of affiliate programs.  In an effort to remain completely transparent in regard to our use of these programs to our readers we’ve opted to include an indication of where these links appear by marking any and all affiliate text links with a (aff*) after the link which is linked to this disclaimer.

THIS POLICY PERTAINS SPECIFICALLY TO THE BLOG AND ARTICLES THAT WE POST. Should we specifically endorse something that we use an affiliate link for, we are doing so because we honestly believe that product or service to be beneficial to our readers.

Please note that, while we hope that specific endorsements would be obvious in context, we may use affiliate links for products or services that are merely mentioned and not endorsed.  An example of this would be if we mentioned an artist, band, book, publication or service in passing or in reference to a specific topic of discussion.

For instance you might see something like:

[insert band name] decided to offer their new album [link to - insert album name] (aff*) online instead of in stores.

This is not an endorsement, simply a mention; in the interest of maintaining credibility with our readers we’d hope that you’d consider the context of the link and the inclusion of the (aff*) tag as an effort on our part to remain open and honest about our intentions.

It should also be noted that WE WILL NEVER ACCEPT PAY-PER-POST OFFERS.  We’ve been asked to do posts about products and services for a fee in the past and have turned them down. We will continue to turn down any future offers of this nature.

We do accept advertising and take part in Google’s Adsense program, however, these ads appear in specific areas such as our frontpage, the top left-hand corner of our blog posts and our sidebar or are clearly marked as “ads” (or “ads by Google” in the case of Adsense).

In short:

  • We use affiliate links for things that we endorse
  • We also use affiliate links for things that we mention
  • We don’t mention things just to include affiliate links for them
  • We do not accept pay-per-post
  • we do accept advertising

Thanks for taking the time to read our affiliate link policy.