Review/Giveaway Policy & Rules

Review Policy

  • Reviews are free of charge.
  • After Mom’s Guide to Travel has reviewed your product(s), the review will be posted on the blog.  The review will contain links back to your main page as well as any specific product links required.  It will be advertised by post on Facebook and Twitter.
  • An actual product will be needed in a full size in order to thoroughly review it and will become the property of Mom’s Guide to Travel. Items will not be returned.
  • Products provided for review must be provided by the business and shipped to Mom’s Guide to Travel at the product supplier’s cost.
  • The review will be posted within 4 weeks after the item is received; however, we will accept special requests for specific post dates.
  • After the review is posted, a link to the review will be provided.
  • Discounts and/or sales you would like to provide in conjunction with a review are free. Any further sales or discount codes will be posted at a nominal charge.
  • All products reviewed must be family-friendly.
  • Mom’s Guide to Travel reserves the right to not post a review if the terms described above have not been met.

Giveaway Policy

Giveaways are a wonderful way to increase traffic to your businesses website and expose Mom’s Guide to Travel readers to your network (Twitter, Facebook, etc.)

  • Giveaways are free of charge when associated with a review.
  • All Mom’s Guide to Travel giveaways are available for Canada and the United States unless specifically requested otherwise by the business.
  • After the giveaway has ended, the winner’s information will be provided to the business, and the business will be responsible for providing and shipping of the prize.
  • The giveaway winner will be selected via Rafflecopter who uses random.org, will be notified though email, and posted on the winner’s wall.
  • Once the winner replies, we will forward you their shipping information.
  • Will usually request a specific question of the reader that pertains to your site, resulting in a visit to your site.
  • An optional entry can be  can asked for the reader to like your Facebook page, follow on Twitter, and subscribe by email to your newsletter, etc.
  • As per Facebook Promotion Guidelines, we cannot ask the reader to take an action on Facebook for an entry. Liking your page is okay; however, actions on their wall will not be allowed.
  • Purchases for bonus entries violate FTC regulations and will not be allowed.
  • A giveaway will be advertised on other giveaway forums, websites, and mom-centric sites to further the business’ exposure.
  • Depending on the giveaway/contest content, Mom’s Guide to Travel may be open to advertising a giveaway on media outlets where the owner, Tawanna Browne Smith, writes.
Giveaway rules:
1. Must complete mandatory entry
2. Must be 18 or older to enter
3. Limit one person per household may enter
4. Winners are chosen by random.org
5. Winners will be emailed and will have 24 hours to respond
 
Added notes:
~ All rafflecopter entries will be validated. If the mandatory entry is not completed all will be invalid and deleted.
~ Protected Tweets are NOT a valid entry!
~ Tweets must be posted within an hour of tweeting or they are not valid.
~ One invalid entry will disqualify you from winning that giveaway and that giveaway only.