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Buy my winning system themed adverts, had a vistor ask today as to how reliable were the ads on my site, i.e had I approved them?
Replied with a buyer beware.
Point is You are unable to even place a disclaimer on your site as this draws attention to the adverts doesnt it?
For example I see so many : "Surf and get rich" ads , "Open emails and make money ads" on Google network that I wonder if Google is happy to promote these sites? Don't these kind of sites lead to 'click fraud'?
I read some writer writing a column somewhere, that if Google allows such ads - the sites must be legitimate ... I don't know whether to accept this logic or what..
Not a single sentence; think of anything you can be accused for.
"Yourdomain.com Copyright 2006 - All rights reserved and all external links on this web-site are not our responciblity"
maybe?
You don't have that already on your legal page?
I've had that on every site for more than 10 years. It's easy enough to get a very good legal page:-)
Regarding checking, I wouldn't say that either as then you are implying that you back em up ... which is silly to me also.
Curious optirex, how many times has that phrase on your site been relevant to your operations.
Surprisingly my legal pages are read quite often.
The relevancy is that 10+ years ago many companies were, and most still quite rightly are, concerned that external links from a web site could possibly lead the site owner liable to prosecution for taking someone unexpectedly to an "inappropriate" site.
but I can understand why others feel more comfortable disclaiming that they are not responsible for others.
It's good corporate governance not to leave oneself open to possible legal action because of someone else's actions.
Why should I be held responsible for others? There is enough Big Brotherism and over-regulation without having to manually check thousands of external links on a regular basis.
You seem to imply that you are responsible if you don't state so.
Not at all, it's just being careful. Why should I be held responsible for the actions of others?
and in some cases you may actually be responsible even if you do have a statement like that.
If that were to happen then say goodbye to free speech and the Internet since only the mega Corps would be able to survive!
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