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The Black Heart Staff

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This policy is valid from 27 October 2012

This blog is a collaborative blog written by a group of individuals. For questions about this blog, please contact us using our Contact form.

This blog accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation. See the “Advertising” section below for further details.

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.

The owner(s) of this blog is not compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the blog owners. If we claim or appear to be experts on a certain topic or product or service area, we will only endorse products or services that we believe, based on our expertise, are worthy of such endorsement. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer or provider.

This blog does not contain any content which might present a conflict of interest.

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Additional info

General Posting: All works of original fiction are published with the permission of the individual authors, and all copyright to these works remain with their authors. Work published on our site may not be reproduced without permission, as per standard copyright laws.

Advertising: Black Heart currently accepts ads via Project Wonderful. Please see our Advertising page for further details.

Artwork: Works of art appearing on our site are used courtesy of Flickr members who have listed their media under Creative Commons licenses. Works will always be attributed under the artist’s legal name when available, or their Flickr pseudonym when not, using the work’s original title (if any), along with a link back to the Flickr page where the piece was originally posted. Photos may be cropped to fit our 300 x 200 “Featured Story” headline shot, but will appear in their original form within each post.

Book Reviews: Black Heart currently reviews books on a whim, and receives complimentary review copies. All book reviews and Character Crush pieces posted as of July 1, 2012 include affiliate links to Austin’s BookPeople independent bookstore or Amazon, and we receive monetary compensation for books purchased via these links.

Featured Video: Featured videos are whatever catches our fancy this week, and usually relate to indie literature, writing or publishing. Videos are updated randomly, and we do not receive any compensation for posting them. Please contact the creator or original host of these videos with any questions or complaints.

Links & RSS Feeds: Links to other sites under the “Recommended Reads” section may change at random according to the whims of the editors. We do not engage in paid link exchanges.

Mailing List: Our mailing list is private and will never be sold, under any circumstances. What do we look like, some evil megaconglomerate? As noted on our mailing list page, we use our list to contact subscribers with information such as submission deadlines for digital issues, updates to our site’s content, and other items of interest on an occasional basis. Readers can easily unsubscribe at any time via our list host, MailChimp.

Partnerships: We currently work with Novel Publicity as a blog tour destination for indie authors. Posts affiliated with Novel Publicity are clearly marked as such, and feature links to contests run by Novel Publicity. As part of our partnership, our readers and writers are eligible to participate in the featured Rafflecopter contests. Black Heart assumes no responsibility for any of these contests and holds no additional ties to Novel Publicity.

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