The Riley Guide:About the Guide

Disclaimers & Privacy Policy

Statement of Ownership || Link Permission
Copyright || Income Statement
Sponsors, Partnerships, and Paid Advertisers
Control of Google Ads
Privacy Policy, Information Collection, and Use of Cookies
Buyer Beware! || Tell Us What You Are Thinking

Statement of Ownership

The Riley Guide (rileyguide.com) is the product of one person, Margaret F. Dikel ("the author"), a.k.a. Margaret Riley Dikel.

Opinions and content found on sites to which the Riley Guide links are the property and responsibility of those sites. While we may not agree with everything said on a site to which we link, we may decide to include a site if it contains useful information and resources as long as it does not also contain content considered insulting nor degrading to any particular individual or population and does not incite harmful actions towards any person or group of persons.

Please notify us of any sites you find to be derogatory or insulting and tell us what bothers you. We will review the site and make a final decision on whether or not to include it. We work to avoid such sites and we will consider removing sites which are offensive to people. However, we must also respect the right of those authors to express their own opinions as long as they are not defamatory and do not incite violence. You the user always have the right to avoid any site on the Internet, including this one, and to notify the author of your opinion.

Link Permission

Anyone who wishes to link to the Riley Guide is granted permission to do so, but the URL of this site must not be hidden by the use of frames nor any other technologies. The author does not pay for inclusion in any other site nor grant requests for reciprocal links.

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Copyright

Some articles in The Riley Guide are copyrighted by authors other than Margaret F. Dikel or may be copyrighted by more than one author. In this case, permission to reproduce or quote information must be obtained from the appropriate copyright holder, or from all authors in the case of multiple authors.

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Income Statement

The author has contracts with various publishing groups for a variety of written products.

The author does not participate in any Advisory Boards related to job and resume sites. To her knowledge, the author does not have any ownership, options or stock in any job or resume site. If she does, it is through a mutual fund and the decision to include that particular stock was made by the mutual fund manager as a part of the total investment package and not by request of the author.

Sites that are listed in the guide are included based on the criteria outlined under How We Select a Site for Listing. No one pays a fee for a listing in the Riley Guide with the exception of our Featured Advertisers. Unless indicated otherwise, only the links in the top, left, right, and bottom "Sponsor" areas of each page are counted by our sponsors in our agreements. Only the Google ads plus the Google Custom Search are counted by Google.

No sponsor nor advertiser has influence over the content of The Riley Guide and the selection of sites listed within.

Sponsors, Partnerships, and Paid Advertisers

One exception to the sponsored link placement is the article titled Why Would Anyone Use a Career Coach?. On this page, all links within the article lead you to a website that offers you the opportunity to purchase services from our partner, JKCoaching.com. If you decide to make a purchase through the website rileyguide.jkcoaching.com, The Riley Guide will receive a share of the revenue.

JKCoaching.com offers you a money-back guarantee. "If after any session you don't feel you made significant strides toward identifying your ideal job, landing interviews quicker, or acing your interviews, simply email us and within 24 hours of your session you will receive a refund, no questions asked."

Control over the Display of Google Ads

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Privacy Policy, Information Collection, and Use of Cookies

The Riley Guide (rileyguide.com) does not collect nor retain any information from its users. Period.

Our host, GoDaddy.com, collects only aggregate and non-personal data for our statistics. You can learn more about what is collected when you visit The Riley Guide by reviewing GoDaddy's article on the statistics program they offer their hosting customers.

The Riley Guide contains links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question. Your use of any information or materials on this website, including the decision to click on any link labeled "sponsor" or "friend", is entirely at your own risk. It shall be your own responsibility to ensure that any products, services or information available through this website meet your specific requirements.

The Riley Guide (Rileyguide.com) permits third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These advertising companies may use cookies to track your visits to their site and to gather generic information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

Beginning in November 2009, Google will use the DART cookie to enable it to serve ads to the users of this site based on your visit to this site and other sites on the Internet. You, the user, may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting Google's privacy policy.

To learn more about the practice of using tracking cookies and your choices about not having this information used by these companies, please visit the Network Advertising Initiative. NAI also gives you, the user, the opportunity to opt-out of all such advertising campaigns operated by their members, including Google. Should a particular advertiser not be in the NAI list, please contact them directly regarding their use of tracking information.

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Buyer Beware!

Through this website you are able to link to other websites which are not under the control of The Riley Guide. We have no control over the nature, content and availability of those sites. The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.

The author does not run background checks on any of the sites listed nor purchases their products in order to test them. If you elect to do business with any site in the guide, exchanging money for a service or product, you do so at your own risk. The author does not assume any risk nor responsibility for your decision.

If you encounter problems with a site listed in the Riley Guide, please let us know! We will consider removing the listing and replacing it with a warning for others provided that the problem is truly an indication of bad intentions on the part of the vendor. The author will also be happy to contact the vendor in an effort to help resolve your problem as long as this assistance does not put her in a position of liability. We also encourage you to report fraud to the appropriate authorities.

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Tell Us What You Are Thinking

Questions and comments about The Riley Guide can be mailed or emailed to the address listed under Introduction to the Guide.

Thank you for your attention, and for visiting.

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