This page describes InspectAPedia policies regarding content accuracy, website visitor privacy, link exchange, and advertising.

InspectAPedia.com does not collect, sell, nor retain any information about individual readers or visitors to our website.

Readers or visitors who choose to display their name or email in the Comments section found at the end of each web article do so at their own option and can request that that information be deleted at any time.

InspectAPedia^® is a U.S. registered Trademark.

InspectApedia Policies

• ACCURACY & NON-BIAS POLICY - live human experts & editors review every article for accuracy, trustworthiness, absence of bias. Criticism is welcomed.
• ARTICLE PEER REVIEW & PUBLIC COMMENT POLICY
• CONTENT USE POLICY - separate page
• COPYRIGHT POLICY - OK only for use in printed, non-commercial materials AND how we respond to copyright violations
• LINK EXCHANGE & PRODUCT LISTING POLICY - how to exchange links
• PRIVACY POLICY- COMMENTS & READER - separate page
• WEBSITE ADVERTISING POLICY - we do not sell anything - no conflicts of interest

Accuracy, Competence, No-Bias in Website Articles & Information

To assure that information presented at our website is accurate, un-biased, and responsible, we provide careful, researched writing using authoritative information sources, supported by ongoing monitoring, peer reviews, and timely response to criticism.

• We cite our information sources 
  
  within the text of articles and at the end of articles where we list references and resources.
  
  Contributors or any other email correspondents who wish to remain anonymous may of course do so, though to avoid a charge of invention we may keep an offline private record of correspondence.
  
  
• We do not provide information derived from chat bots
  
  We do not use scraped content and we do not use chat-bot information sources to write articles nor do we use chat bots to answer reader questions, because for the sorts of building, environmental, health & safety topics discussed at InspectApedia.com, without expert human review, chat-bot "answers" may be inaccurate, biased, or even dangerous.
• We solicit technical and peer reviewers 
  
  of website content from industry experts and other professionals. Where possible, we identify technical reviewers at the end of each article and provide contact information for them. Since technical research and data can always be improved, we invite and will act quickly on reports of error or inaccuracy.
  
  Any reader who knows or believes that there is a mistake or error, inaccuracy, or incompleteness in our website content is asked to
  
  CONTACT US by email.
  
  We will research the question raised and make any appropriate corrections, additions, or amendments we can discover under the aegis of providing helpful and accurate information to our readers.
• Accuracy and safety - editorial policy: 
  
  we remain cordial to and inviting of views from all correspondents, and we specifically invite technical comment, opinion, suggestions for corrections or additions to our website material in order that it can be more complete and more accurate.
  
  However opinions that are profane, unsubstantiated, or that we cannot substantiate by research or consulting with other experts, and opinions that in our judgment appear to involve conflict of interest, "product sales pitches", or recommendations that we have reason to believe are dangerous to the public, will not published and do not meet our editorial standards.
  
  We remain, of course, willing and ready to be shown that such decisions need to be re-visited or amended in individual cases.
  
  See ACCURACY & PRIVACY POLICIES
• No financial interest: 
  
  We guarantee that products, procedures, or other matters discussed are not tainted or made suspect by financial connections between the website author(s) and any products, procedures, or companies discussed at this website.
  
  Some InspectAPedia.com articles include links to relevant books or other publications for sale through Amazon.com, for which the website may receive a commission.
  
  Typical annual revenue received from such book sales is less than $200. We do not sell products, parts, or other items. If we include links to expert consultants or service providers, there is no fee associated with accepting such listings.
• InspectAPedia.com welcomes comments, suggestions, or complaints 
  
  about errors that merit correction in our website content. That notice is posted frequently throughout the website.
  
  We name and give credit to correspondents who offer corrections or content additions except where such correspondents ask to remain anonymous. Readers who wish to offer a comment, suggestion, or correction to our content or who are concerned with InspectAPedia's journalistic integrity can reach the editor/publisher using the information
  
  at CONTACT.

Article Peer Review & Public Comment Policy

InspectApedia permits readers to post questions or comments on any website page at the article end in a Comments area.

Please use the page top or bottom SEARCH BOX as a quick way to find information you need and to find pages most-relevant to your question or comment.

However there is no direct-posting of articles by readers or the general public without the material passing first through a technical review and editing step.

While we welcome and invite technical questions, arguments, or contributions to the website's content, no article is posted online to our website without it's passing through both technical review and editing for accuracy, clarity, and absence of advertising or promotional material. Of course that doesn't mean there may not be errors that need correction or text that needs clarification or other sources worth citing.

See the page-bottom COMMENTS BOX at the end of each article where readers can post questions or critique, or if readers prefer they can CONTACT US by email. Every article published at InspectAPedia.com contains the following statement

Critique, contributions wanted:

CONTACT US to suggest corrections or additions to articles at this website, and if you wish, to receive online listing and credit as a contributor. Particular thanks are due to the many experts and also consumers who read and critique technical articles at InspectAPedia.com.

The concept of a more narrowly defined peer review process is a long-established method by which scholarly journals attempt to improve the accuracy and content of their published materials.

The concept of a widely-defined public posting of online content with the invitation to comment, critique, or make suggestions is more current, and has been also widely discussed, such as in the New York Times in August 2010.

The advantage of a wide public exposure/peer review is the ability to solicit rapid and very broadly-based comment that can and sometimes does substantially improve the technical accuracy and quality of published information, provided that the publisher includes professional editing of the comments and suggestions themselves to review those for accuracy and absence of bias.

The disadvantage of relying on a public-exposure peer review procedure for online technical material is that readers are not always assured that every article has been uniformly reviewed, vetted, and quality-assured. Our policy is to edit and review all contributions to InspectAPedia.com for accuracy and absence of bias, as well as to review with great care public and expert comments and suggestions that we receive.

In addition to frequent contribution and editing by the experts listed just above, the identity and where permitted, contact information and credentials of reviewers of or commentators on individual articles found here is posted at the end of each of our articles where you will also find technical citations, article reference sources, and related materials.

Also see our policy on ACCURACY & BIAS IN REPORTING.

Content Use Policy

Please see details at WEBSITE CONTENT USE POLICY.

Also see  WEBTHEFTHALLOFSHAME - HOME where trademark and copyright violators may be named & detected.

Copyright Policy

InspectAPedia.com respects the intellectual property of other individuals and organizations, and we ask our readers to do the same for our content, text, photographs, images, and website design.

We are not responsible for content that you may encounter on other websites that you may find or access when reading material or links found at our website, and just as our own website material is copyright protected and our name a registered trademark, information you find at other websites may be protected by copyright or other laws in the United States, Canada, the U.K., or other countries.

The terms of those websites and not ours govern use of their material.

Notice for Copyright Violation or Intellectual Property Rights Violation

If you think that your work has been copied here, at InspectApedia.com, in a manner that violates your copyright or intellectual property rights, please CONTACT us and provide all of the information below:

1. An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright or other intellectual property interest
2. A description of the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you claim has been infringed
3. A description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the InspectAPedia.com site, with enough detail that we may find it on our website (in most circumstances, we will need a URL)
4. Your address, telephone number, and email address
5. A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright or intellectual property owner, its agent, or the law
6. A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your Notice is accurate and that you are the copyright or intellectual property owner or authorized to act on the copyright or intellectual property owner's behalf

Information above includes 6 points as adapted from text appearing at yahoo.com for copyright violation notice, used with [permission requested 10/30/2010]. In our discussion of copyright violation, we used the following references found in web search 10/30/2010:

• At Yahoo http://info.yahoo.com/copyright/us/details.html
• Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/copyright
• Policies written by Georgetown University at http://policies.georgetown.edu/copyright/sections/permissions

Link Exchange & Book, Consultant, or Product Listing Policy

Listing submissions by qualified experts are welcome - whose content, services are appropriate for our readers. To provide your link exchange information and our link exchange policy see

our DIRECTORY LISTING & LINK EXCHANGE INSTRUCTIONS.

There are no listing fees & no conflicts of interest. 

The author / editor / publisher of InspectAPedia.com^® reserves the right to list or not list individuals or companies and to provide notice of consumer compliments or complaints.

Qualified experts

 in the fields discussed at this website (and suitable for the directories listed

at CONSULTANTS & EXPERTS DIRECTORIES include inspectors, forensic engineers, construction & environmental investigators and laboratories:

If you are qualified to serve residential or commercial properties and if you are committed to working without actual or apparent conflict of interest (your company does not inspect, test, and also remediate or repair buildings) you may qualify to be listed in this directory without charge.

The content at this website is provided by InspectAPedia.com^® as a public service and without any conflicts of interest. This directory receives no support from ASHI, CAHI, CREIA, nor any other home inspection nor from any real estate firm nor any other business, listed or not listed, at our website.

Books or other publications on topics found at InspectApedia.com, technical documents, and other online resources can be listed at appropriate web pages at our site.

We invite submissions of books and products for technical review. Final approval of inclusion of any book or product is solely the right and responsibility of the website editors and publisher. Product and book reviews are published at this website.

Recent book or product reviews can be found listed at

• BOOK REVIEWS - InspectApedia
• BOOK & PUBLICATION RECOMMENDATIONS

Product listings: please include product literature including any available technical research. We also publish reviews of products within our areas of expertise.

Service Providers or Special Products Listing Contingency

Service providers or Products Will Not be Listed or will be Removed from Listings at our website if by research, study, or public complaint we are informed of (and can confirm) bogus products, junk science claims, dishonest business practices or general incompetence.

 

Reader Privacy & Reader Comments

Now found at InspectAPedia PRIVACY POLICY

 

Website Advertising Policy

We are committed to providing our readers with unbiased research and the writing of technical content that is free from marketing, sales pitches, or conflicts of interest.

We do not sell anything at InspectAPedia.com ^®. Please do not call or write asking to us to buy or sell anything.

Technical reference books on various environmental and building or construction defects, hazard or environmental inspection and testing, defect recognition, design, repair, maintenance, and alternative solutions & designs, technical documents, and other online resources are listed in the text of technical articles or may be presented as link lists as part of articles presented at this website at no charge.

Consumer Notice about the paid advertisements which appear on some pages at our website:

• We accept paid advertising through Google to help defray the operating costs of this website. Advertisers can request that Google place ads at our website or within specific topics at our website using procedures described
  
  at HOW TO ADVERTISE on InspectAPedia.com.
• We do not select or approve the advertisers on the site - ads are generated by Google based on our page content.
• Our site has thrived based on offering impartial, unbiased advice and that will not change.
• We have no financial or other relationship with the advertisers who may appear on our web pages, nor do we endorse specific advertisers.
• We have no immediate control over any of the advertisers, but we can and will block advertisements from companies offering junk science products or from companies about whom we receive and can verify business or ethical complaints. Readers with complaints about advertisers are invited to contact us with that information.
• We may elect to block advertisements which we discover or readers inform us are associated with bad business practices, false-advertising, or junk science.
• We do not accept advertising nor list products for which there is not supporting unbiased research on their effectiveness and proper application.
• InspectAPedia.com is a privately-operated public-information website/encyclopedia. We reserve the right to approve or disapprove any requests for service provider listings.
• Our contact information for technical website content correction or comments about the Google advertisements appearing on some of our web pages is
  
  at CONTACT US

Use of "Share This" Buttons and Links at InspectAPedia.com

On some InspectAPedia.com pages you may find an option to "share" a page. When you select this option, you will be presented with a list of several popular sites where users can share stories with a community of users. These sites are sometimes referred to as "social bookmarking" tools.

InspectAPedia.com does not collect nor retain any information about individual readers or visitors to our website.

InspectAPedia.com provides these bookmarking links as a convenience to our users. The websites to which links to InspectAPedia.com articles can be posted or emailed are not managed by us. Some of those may require you to create an account to use their features. Be sure to check the terms of use and privacy policies of these sites to understand their practices.

 

 

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