Link to the Salem Media Group California Consumer Privacy Act Opt Out Do Not Sell My Personal Information

 For purposes of complying with the requirement that blogs post their policy that concerns California, I am sending you my blog reader to this link because the types of things that Salem Media Group is doing is really similar to what I am doing on my blog. I utilize affiliate marketing technology which is a way to make a commission on sales that my blog helps other websites make because I send the customer to the affiliate marketing website, who tells the selling site the information I provided the affiliate marketing website. Typically the impression is the only statistic that ever happens but once per year the sale is also logged. I tested this for myself with Alibris.com, I went to Alibris by using one of the affiliate marketing hyperlinks, bought my son Shawn Livermore's book Average Joe on Wiley, and I earned the 5% commission as the blog that made a sale. That was the first and only time that I earned any commission from any referring to Alibris by my sending information to the affiliate marketing link. I tried a similar deal out years ago when I was with Amazon as an Amazon affiliate marketer. In that situation, I had some items declined when it was time for Amazon to pay me the commission for the sale to myself of the items I had listed on my website. Amazon at the time had a process in place which could track it to the level of detail and I came up as a match for being the same person who had the affiliate agreement with Amazon and also bought the item. I wound up paying full price for the items not getting the discount for being an affiliate marketer. After being with Amazon as an affiliate marketer for 6 months with nothing earned in sales, just impressions, Amazon terminated my affiliate marketing arrangement with them. I left my links on my websites after I was terminated the way they were after the end of the arrangement because there was no point in wasting any time changing the links on the websites just so my blog readers would not see those hyperlinks that no longer worked for purposes of earning me commissions. I failed as an Amazon marketer but there are other marketing arrangements that I have that I am successful moving forward with. The big affiliate marketer on my site is Google Adsense which has a balance owed me of 12.39. I am happy to say at least Google Adsense has not instituted any 6 month trial for me to do marketing with them like Amazon does. The Google Adsense service is way more likely to offend my blog readers than all the manually processed ads that I put up on the blog because they put a lot of auctions on to get me income from making ad space available. The auctions involve the words that the Salem Media Group document use. I wonder what the horror stories are that caused the State of California to pass the regulation about websites and their practices. 

As far as the DAA WebChoices Tool and the Network Advertising Initiative tool discussed in the Salem Media Group document: There is a possibility that you, my blog reader would want to set that up and opt out. I don't know if you do it and I don't need to know. Good to have you here, reading all my blog posts and buying any items I show as being available. Good to know you enjoy what you see here, and if you ever do buy something that one of those tools you use to opt out with causes me to lose the commission I would have earned on the sale I don't need to know. I often wonder if this "do not sell my personal information" directly affects the viability of blogging as a way to earn commissions. If you are reading this and you know the answer to that question, call me or email me and explain it to me. My number is 949-537-6498  and my email address is the contact form on the home page of the blog in the left column down in the section where the rss feeds end and the labels have not started yet.