With the recent changes to the Federal Trade Commission’s regulations on “Compensation Disclosure Guidelines”, it has been decided that ImperfectYou will no longer be accepting Guest Author content and it is quite possible that as these regulations are further defined, Guest Author content may need to be removed in order to comply with the changes.

I have been reading the material submitted by Guest Authors, and culling out any submissions that appeared to be less than above board or were based on material I did not feel related to the nature of ImperfectYou. Approximately one in ten submissions were accepted.

The updates being made to the FTC regulations suggest at this time, that blog owners may be held responsible for compensatory links used within content that is made available, and as I am not always able to verify claims made when those links are accessed, it has been decided to err on the side of caution. I thank those Guest Authors whose material was accepted for their contribution to the informational content of ImperfectYou.

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