This blog is written and edited by Amy Love, Matt Varner and Real Food Whole Health. For questions about this blog, please contact us at info at realfoodwholehealth dot com.
The purpose of Real Food Whole Health is to help people understand the impact of nutrition on their health, share healthy recipes, and living and lifestyle tips. It does take time to create all this content, so I do accept paid advertising, sponsorships, affiliate programs and other forms of compensation.
Please note- no money will ever impact my opinion on a subject or object. I’m going to give mixed or negative reviews of products sometimes and turn down propositions that don’t fit with my ideology. (i.e. no processed foods, body products with tons of toxins, etc)
I accept private advertising ONLY from companies I am happy to endorse; you can see their images in the sidebar, and I occasionally mention them in posts, but I usually say they’re a sponsor.
If you click on their ad or text link and buy something, I get a little (very little) kickback. Unless I’ve reviewed the product and mentioned that they provided the product to me, none of these companies pays me in any other way.
I also participate in Amazon.com’s affiliate program. If you click on an Amazon link or photo at my site, I get a (small) commission, as long as you purchase exactly what I recommend within 24 hours. They’re strict at Amazon!
When I run a giveaway, I usually have received a free product to review, and the company has sponsored a free product to give to one of my readers. The review is my own opinion, and although the company in question may certainly read my text (and I encourage them to), they don’t edit or approve it in any way. They also don’t compensate me for reviewing the product beyond providing me with a sample.
Giveaways and reviews are kept separate for a very good reason: I do accept paid giveaways, as giveaways take a great deal of time to administrate and are a fabulous form of advertising. The bottom line? Reviews are free, between me and my readers. Giveaways are paid advertising, most of the time.
Any sponsored posts will be marked as such, but again, I won’t write a post recommending anything for money that I wouldn’t have written without compensation. It just makes that task a little sweeter!
I do some sponsored tweets or Facebook posts as well, but they will always include the words “brought to you by” “sponsored”, “ad” or something similar.
