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Melanie earns income on this website in the following ways: course sales, advertisements, affiliate marketing, and sponsored blog posts. Why do we tell you this? Melanie believes that transparency is important and she wants you to know when people have paid to be featured on the website. She regards partnerships as important relationships and only agrees to work with like minded companies and individuals.
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When you visit the My Notes From A Nurse website, you may see something called “affiliate links”. What are affiliate links?
Affiliate links are links to a product or service. If you decide to purchase that particular product or service, Melanie Henry will get a percentage of that sale. This is similar to a finder’s fee for linking the consumer to an item or product that appeals to them. This does not change the final price of any items.
Melanie Henry and mynotesfromanurse.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. This is an affiliate advertising program designed to provide an avenue for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.
Melanie will always indicate if there is an affiliate relationship at the beginning of any post that may contain an affiliate link. She will indicate this before the first link is present, per FCC Guidelines. If it is a social share or email, it will include either the word “affiliate” or “partner,” or one of the following: hashtags #affiliate #sponsored #partner within the email or share.
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My Notes From A Nurse uses Amazon and Thinkific to offer products. No sales are completed on the My Notes From A Nurse site. Please visit Amazon.com or Thinkific.com to review their privacy policies.
Disclaimer for Sponsored Posts
Melanie Henry may possibly work with a company who provides her with compensation in exchange for writing a blog post on this website. Any post that gives a review is Melanie’s own honest, personal opinion and compensation does not impact the content. Melanie would not participate in this unethical behavior, nor would she promote or work with a company who engages in these practices. An additional disclaimer is placed at the top of the post to state which company or entity specifically sponored that post.
Guest Blog Posts
Guests periodically write for the My Notes From A Nurse Blog. Any content written by guests is a refection of their own personal experiences and opinions and not the opinion of any current or past employers. Compensation may be exchanged for a guest blog post. If so, a disclaimer will be listed at the top of the post.
Comments Policy
Initial comments are moderated and approved to ensure post authenticity and rule out spam. After your initial post, you’ll be able to comment and it will post immediately. Your posts are subject to review at any time and should you post anything inappropriate, threatening, misleading, containing spam, or offensive, the My Notes From A Nurse team reserves the right to delete your comment. We encourage honest, constructive dialogue in terms of comments/feedback. All comments are welcome.
Hold Harmless
We do not provide medical advice, regardless of the topic of conversation or situation. Any recommendations are based solely on personal opinion and/or experience of the author. Any actions taken because of this advice or recommendations are of your own free will. Should you chose to take action based on something you read on this website, those actions are at your own risk. Your actions are your own and you agree to hold the author harmless.
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Jetpack
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Who we share your data with
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How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
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Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your contact information
Contact us by email if you have any privacy concerns.
Additional information
For Users with accounts located in European Data Region, all processing of Personal Data is performed in accordance with privacy rights and regulations following the EU Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 (the Directive), and the implementations of the Directive in local legislation. From May 25th, 2018, the Directive and local legislation based on the Directive will be replaced by the Regulations (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of Personal Data and on the free movement of such data, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and FreshRN’s processing will take place in accordance with the GDPR.
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