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“The information provided herein should not be deemed as investment, tax, or legal advice. NetAdvisor.org®, any author of articles, reports and general published work (altogether and from hereon and herein referred to as “we” and “us” and “our”) are not a tax, legal, healthcare or medical advisor. We do not hold ourselves out to the general public as a financial advisor. Always seek a professional qualified advisor for any such advice sought. We are not responsible for 3rd party content such as links from published work(s), and thus we do not guarantee their accuracy. Third party links may be subject to copyright, and are provided as a reference to the matter(s) being discussed. Any images or other relevant information associated in published articles or other content is being used under 17 USC § 107-118, “fair use.” Other law may apply. Any information that may be provided herein is not intended to be a solicitation to buy, sell, or short any securities, commodities, futures, options, hedge funds, private equity funds, property, or any other investment, or other service. The information provided via us and or “Net Advisor™” is believed to be reliable, to the author’s knowledge, experience and belief and supporting data; however is not guaranteed. Information posted is generally based on U.S.A. data, and may not apply uniformly to non-U.S.A. counties. Information, data, posts, articles, etc., are provided on an “as is” and without any warranties, guarantees or representations of any kind whether implied or not. Any and all information posted herein or attached is generally current at time of posting, and may be subject to change without notice. Financial markets, political, economic and other conditions can change; therefore, our, or our author’s opinions may change at any time without notice. Consulting and or other business services are provided by separate, independent, contracted companies and or via independent advisors; by law, we and our providers cannot make any certain guarantees of future outcomes. Past performance is not an indicator of future performance. We do our best to insure complete accuracy. Please know we are human, and thus not responsible for typographical errors. Please advise us if you find an area for editing review. Our policies may be amended from time to time and will be published on this page. Thank you!”

Social Media Disclaimer.
Any “following”, “friending,” “liking,” “Re-tweeting” or the similar in social networks including but not limited to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Flicker, Tumblr, Pinterest, Parler, MySpace, etc., does not necessarily constitute endorsement. We may use third-party technology to add and remove accounts, and seek to block “offensive” accounts. We may use third-party technology to auto-follow-back others. We cannot guarantee we catch every instance of spam or offensive content. Posted comments or tweets by Net Advisor™ is not necessarily endorsed by NetAdvisor.org®, KMG, Inc., or our current parent company, organization, or partners. Such posts are made under U.S. Constitution’s 1st Amendment rights. We have no known control over who gets associated and when or for how long via the Twitter follower dialog box located on the right column of this website. {Note: This feature may be disabled, removed, or we are seeking an update or replacement}. This feature generally displayed icons of recent Twitter followers. This process is done automatically by an application plug-in which was developed by a 3rd party for public use. If you have any concerns please send a direct message to @NetAdvisor or e-mail us. Thank you for your support!

Additional Disclaimers/ Disclosures.
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Any consulting and other business services are contracted through independent service providers which may be either for-profit or non-profit corporations or organizations and whom are responsible for their own services and content that may appear on our website. KMG, Inc. – a non-profit corporation does not necessarily endorse any other company or advertisement or third party links that may appear on the netadvisor.org® domain.

Privacy Policy.
We collect information from visiting this site which may include, but may not be limited to Internet Protocol addresses, and country of origin. Information collected is generally used to see how visitors are using the website, and what topics have current interest. We use live human and real-time third-party technologies to monitor general site traffic; monitor any unauthorized use of the website and track website abuse. We, or our technology, or other designee(s), may track and remove malicious-activity addresses, and spammers in order to maintain the general integrity of the website for all visitors. We do not sell your personal information, e-mail address, phone number, or have any malicious or covert intent to cause any issues to law-abiding visitors. Unlawful activity, including criminal activity may be investigated by us, our representatives, and or reported to proper authorities without notice.

Posting Comments.
Comments are welcome. We have made it easier to post comments on our articles. To reduce spam messages, comments may be held for moderation. Comments deemed as spam will be archived including the IP address from where the spam apparently originated, and may be analyzed and investigated if there is a chronic issue. For everyone else with good intent, we will post comments on-topic as long as they do NOT include profanity, alcohol, drug, “adult oriented” websites or inappropriate references. We welcome debates and comments of opposing views. Links posted in comment section that contains inappropriate material, advertising, off-topic, solicitation or spam will not be posted. Comments may be edited to filter out prohibited links or language. Posted comments are done voluntary and become the property of NetAdvisor.org® and or KMG, Inc. – a non-profit corporation or our current parent entity and are made without compensation or other consideration. We do not post visitors email addresses submitted with comments, and such may be used for verification purposes, such as to inquire if that email address really made the comment.

Site Rating.
Some websites have their own rating system in their code. We would rate out site as “PG-13” due to media coverage of events such as terrorism, where there will be images, graphics and content that may not be appropriate for younger viewers. Parental discretion is hereby advised.

Links.
Links are provided as a reference to the information discussed. If a link is lined out (“L̶i̶n̶e̶d̶ ̶o̶u̶t̶“) it means our system has automatically discovered that the link is either broken, has moved, or was removed by the original content owner. We do try and repair and update links back to their information source whenever possible. In some cases we may use PDF files to replace broken links, or other third-party web archiving to help maintain the original content. Please notify us for link repair.

Advertising.
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Cookies.
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Donations.
We originally thought about, and set up donations to maintain the site in our early days. However, we choose not to accept donations and removed the ability for 3rd parties to make donations to the site.

No Third-Party or Political Funding.
We do NOT receive, nor are we soliciting funding from third-party individuals or organizations. We do NOT receive, nor are we soliciting funding from any political organization(s).

Managing Other Potential Conflicts of Interest.
Some securities such as stocks, bonds, commodities, funds, etc., may be discussed in any of our reports. In the event NetAdvisor™ has an economic interest in any of the securities discussed, it will be disclosed on that same report page. KMG, Inc. – a non-profit corporation or NetAdvisor.org® does NOT own any securities, commodities, other investments, or maintain any type of investment accounts, or hold any alternative currency accounts.

We Respect Your Privacy. General Policy.
We do NOT sell, rent, give, lend, offer, exchange, etc., your email address, phone, or personal information to any marketing company or other 3rd party for any 3rd party sales, marketing or advertising purposes. Subscribing to our content is spam free.

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If you see “netadvisor” or the similar as a “user name” on a website that is not listed and approved on this page (below) it is not us.

Official Authorized Accounts: Flicker, FaceBook (deleted our account – censorship. Retaining Trade Mark); Gravatar, Pinterest (screwed up our name), Tumblr, Twitter (most active), Parler, and Yahoo! (‘retired’). Most of these accounts are held to reserve our trademark, and may not be active.

Hijacked account: Instagram.

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TOS Policies First Posted: 07.01.2009. Policy last updated: 11.11.2020. Prior updates: 09.24.2020; 09.30.2016; 01.02.2015; 05.15.2014.