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Committment to Privacy

We're committed to ensuring the privacy for all persons:

• We are committed to ensuring the privacy of our visitors



• We are committed to ensuring the privacy of any persons described on our web properties



• We are committed to ensuring the privacy of any persons who communicate with us

We do not exchange personally identifying information to any outside or associated parties, without prior authorization from the identified person(s).

We do not conduct business with any person or organization that cannot meet the promises set forth in this privacy policy.

Collection of Personal Information

We do not collect personally identifying information from it users of any kind, without the user's knowledge, with the exception to the following:

• The web servers which our web properties are hosted on collects each visitor's IP address. This information is used solely to identify how many unique visitors are using our web properties. We do not make any attempts to trace the IP address to any specific person. Moreover, we do not provide this information to any parties outside of Smoking Dogs Media.



• The advertisers who advertise on our web properties will place cookies on our users computers, if those users click on an ad. No cookies will be placed simply by visiting one of our web properties. These advertisers have made assurances that these cookies will not be used to send unsolicited communication, will not be used to personally identify our users, and any information collected by these cookies will not be shared with us, or with organizations outside of these advertisers.

We do not place any kind of "spyware" or "adware" or malicious software, or any kind of unauthorized material on its users computers.

Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)

While we realize that persons of any age are capable of visiting our web properties, we do not publish material intended for persons aged 14 years or younger. All material we publish is intended for adult audiences.

Correspondence

Anyone contacting us can be assured that their communication and identity will kept in strict confidence, unless authorized otherwise.

If you happen to tell us that your company's website is down, don't worry, we won't blog about it.

Inquiries, comments, ideas? Send us an e-mail!

Looking for a job as a professional blogger? Send us an e-mail, let us know what you'd like to do. If we don't have a blog for it already, we might build it!

Dave Podmajersky - taxpod at yahoo dot com

Steve Johnson - steve at cleardigitalmedia dot com

Smoking Dogs Media is a partnership between David Podmajersky, who publishes DistantCousin.com, and Steve Johnson, who publishes Clear Digital Media, Inc.

The duo had been friends since the Summer of 1999, when the two traded e-mail threads on affiliate marketing. They launched their first website together on December 3, 2003 with Death-Records.net, an affiliate marketing website. In the months following, three more affiliate marketing sites, Marriage Records, Death Certitficates, and US Census Records, were launched.

On November 3, 2004, the two guys launched their first blog, Political Dogs, the day following the Presidential Election, after witnessing the effect bloggers had on the campaign process.

Up until October 2005, the partnership had been operating without an identity. Thus, the name "Smoking Dogs Media" was coined, after the logo used on the Political Dogs website.

Business Philosophy

Smoking Dogs Media was originally founded on the idea of combining talents to achieve exceptional results, and will continue on that theme, either by finding new ways to get more performance out of blogging, explore new topics for blogs, find new ways to leverage affiliate marketing programs and advertising networks.