Please find all of the policies, ethics and values of the blog outlined below. It is important to me that Plants and Good Vibes is a transparent and honest blog, and any business practices are ethical.
If there is anything you are unsure about, please feel free to contact me 🙂
Advertising – you will see Google Adsense ads throughout the blog, and I get a very, very small commission for every ad you click on.
Affiliate Links – some blog posts may use affiliate links that link to products or services. This will be clearly displayed at the top of the individual blog post. This means that if you use my link and then buy the product, I get a very small commission from that website (e.g. from Amazon). It costs you no extra, but helps me to run this blog. I only use affiliate links for products that I would genuinely recommend without any financial incentive.
Cookies – this blog uses cookies, and a banner will pop up informing you of this the first time you visit the blog.
Comments – I love comments on the blog! Please feel free to share your thoughts. However, please be aware, that Plants and Good Vibes is not responsible for any comments made by visitors. To try and prevent spam, comments are moderated and removed if they are deemed to be by bots/spam, offensive, promotional (linking to your own blog is fine) or unsuited to the subject matter of this site.
Copyright – Please do not use any of my photographs or content without prior, explicit consent which you can obtain through emailing me (see Contact page).
A special note on list posts/ round up posts/”listicles”: Plants and Good Vibes includes blog posts that list or round up products/services on different blogs and websites, and the most common you will see will be recipes (e.g. “Top 10 Pasta Recipes”). Each blog I include will be clearly attributed with two links (one to the individual recipe, one to the homepage of the blog). Each recipe includes an image used with permission.
I am very strongly against using an image taken from another blog without permission, even if I am using it to advertise their own blog. This permission will either be explicit, via asking the blog owner directly whether I can use their image on my blog to link to their recipe with attribution, or from a recipe blog which has a copyright statement which explicitly allows this.
Images – this blog contains photos taken by the author, as well as stock images and images taken with permission from other blogs (please see “Copyright” above) and stock image sites. Please do not use them on your own blog without permission / the correct licence.
Privacy Policy – this blog collects information about its visitors in the form of cookies (see above). This information is collected and stored automatically, and may include your IP address, referring sources or links, browser and device type, operating system, and time and date stamps. Other information stored may be given voluntarily e.g. your email address, name, address etc. when signing up to email lists or purchasing products or services. This blog uses Google Analytics. The full privacy policy can be found here.
Review Policy – Plants and Good Vibes will, on occassion, accept products and/or payment in exchange for an honest review of a product or service. The product/service MUST be related to the blog niche (e.g. to do with veganism, travel, blogging – if you are not sure, then send an email to ask). The blog post will clearly state that the products were provided for free. For more information, please see the Work With Me page.
Third Party Websites – this blog might include links to third party websites (e.g. websites that aren’t in any way connected, controlled or related to Plants and Good Vibes). This blog is not responsible for any of the policies or privacy practices on those websites (please read their policies too, and if you can’t find them then ask!).
