The Young House Love Disclaimer
We’re laying down the ins & outs of Young House Love in legalese with a bit of fun squeezed in between (just to see if you’re listening). Please let us know if you have any additional questions!
- Young House Love LLC is created and written solely by John and Sherry Petersik who feel all warm and fuzzy about sharing their adventures and misadventures in home improvement. We’re not experts, just two happy homeowners learning as we go and sharing our house-related trials and triumphs.
- The various home improvement & decorating methods, suggestions, and tutorials on Young House Love are not error proof, they’re merely what worked for us along the way (remember, we’re regular people, not pros). Extra precautions and additional research are always advised and Young House Love cannot be held responsible for your personal safety or the outcome of your home improvement undertakings. Therefore if you’re injured attempting something you’ve seen on our site, or if a project doesn’t yield the results that you intended after following our tips, Young House Love is in no way liable.
- Young House Love intends to create an enthusiastic, encouraging, can-do atmosphere when it comes to making your house a home. Therefore statements and opinions found on this site are never intended to offend or attack any group or individual. Love is our middle last name!
- Young House Love reserves the right to remove, replace, or move any images or content without prior announcement (we like to gussy things up now and then).
- All photos that aren’t taken by Young House Love are credited and linked to their outside sources and are believed to be in public domain and readily available on the Internet (published according to the U.S. Copyright Fair Use Act, title 17, U.S. Code).
- Any photos not credited to an outside source have been taken by Young House Love and are rights protected. Failure to link back and credit our site as their source constitutes a copyright violation. See the next bullet for further clarification about using our photos.
- We like to share the love, so feel free to use an image or two from any post or page as long as they’re credited and accompanied by a link back to our site. We prohibit using our photos in bulk for the purposes of a photo gallery, landing page, roundup, series of posts, or any other feature that duplicates a large portion of our content. Please contact us for express permission if you’d like to use more than a few of our photos, and we will evaluate those requests on a case by case basis.
- Duplicating any of our text (even if it’s credited to Young House Love) is not cool since it hurts both parties’ Google Rankings due to being indexed as repeat content. Please paraphrase, summarize, or link to copy on our site as opposed to cutting & pasting it, which is strictly prohibited.
- The design and layout of Young House Love is the sole property of John and Sherry Petersik. Copying or mimicking our appearance (ie: duplicating our layout, imitating our header) is strictly prohibited.
- By submitting your home/project/before & after photos to Young House Love via email, you’re granting us permission to use those photos and your letter in any way that we choose unless otherwise stated in your initial email. You know we love to share the eye candy!
- Young House Love does not accept payment for in-post product features and only gushes about something because we like it, not because we were bribed. All sponsored products, sites, and services are clearly marked on the sidebar under the word “sponsors” or in one monthly post that clearly states that it’s a “Sponsor Shout-Out.” We’re all about being 100% honest and transparent.
- We have no way of “pre-screening” or vouching for every item offered by the various companies who sponsor our site, therefore any purchases made from them by way of our site are between you and that vendor or company. But we do hope you love ‘em since we love you and we love them for supporting our blog.
- We no longer accept free swag or blogger discounts of any kind. Read more about that here.
- We rarely use affiliate links through amazon.com, but when we do we like to be 100% upfront about them. We clearly indicate the use of these affiliate links right within the post (and on the sidebar) when they appear.
- Young House Love is not paid for featuring giveaways (aka: Fab Freebies) and only works with companies and products that we truly believe will appeal to our readers. There’s nothing in it for us except for the satisfaction of rewarding the lovely people who stop in and enjoy our blog.
- We facilitate our weekly giveaways but don’t actually give anything away or mail any prizes (the company who sponsors the giveaway is responsible for that). Therefore we can’t be held liable for any prize that isn’t received since we’re not directly involved with the prize’s shipment or delivery. Any issues involving the shipment, delivery, receipt, (or quantity, quality, etc.) of a prize must be taken up with the company who sponsored the giveaway directly.
- We don’t give, sell, or provide any contact information to outside companies, unless we have directly asked for your permission – like if you’ve won a giveaway and that vendor needs to ship your prize to you (read more about our privacy policy here).
- Comments are manually approved, so they may not be visible right away. Occasionally our spam filter does inexplicably eat a perfectly wonderful comment. Boo spam filter.
- As a drama free zone, Young House Love will edit or remove any comment that we deem malicious, spammy, otherwise inappropriate, or excessively offensive to any group or person.
- We’re thrilled to be able to support three of our favorite charities, as indicated by the “Giving Back” button on our sidebar. We make an annual donation of $1,000 to the Richmond Habitat For Humanity along with $500 to Saint Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital and $500 to the Richmond SPCA. And we definitely encourage others to check them out! You can donate here, here, and here, or find a local Habitat for Humanity or SPCA in your area here and here.
Good times. Did your eyes glaze over? Ours too. But now that we have that out of the way, we hope you enjoy probing every other nook and cranny of Young House Love. And don’t forget to tell your grandma/step-sister/basset hound/desk lamp about YHL!
