Free DiGiorno's Pizza On Facebook

DiGiorno is asking their Facebook fans how much they love deep dish pizza.  If you upload a picture of yourself proving your love for DiGiorno they will mail you a coupon for a free pizza.  The uploaded picture is your face on a pre-designed image.

Contact Me and Public Relations

Did you find a deal that you want to share with the Making Cents of It readers?  Do you have a question you need answered?  If you are sending in a deal, please give as much information, including links, that you have so I can verify the information.

If you are a representative from a company and feel your product would interest the readers of Making Cents of It, I would love to hear from you. I am more than happy to consider your product for a review on the site. I do not charge for writing reviews, however I request that you send me at least two of the product to review – one for my use to write the review and one or more to giveaway as a promotion with the review.

Any product reviews I write will have my honest opinion of the product. Sponsored posts are marked as such so that readers know what they are reading. A copy of the review can be sent for approval prior to being posted. Making Cents of It will not write reviews for products that do not fit the theme of the blog. So please consider if my readers would enjoy your product when considering Making Cents of It for a product review.

Product reviews on Making Cents of It is a great way for your company and product to receive coverage.  If you would like to see previously sponsored posts, please click the sponsored tag on the left menu. We have a strong readership that is growing daily through word of mouth referrals.

If you would like to discuss featuring your product on Making Cents of It, please send me an email and I will respond quickly.

Anytime you want to get in touch with me, you can feel free to email Cori@MakingCentsofIt.com.

Online Safety, Privacy, and Other Important Information

Personal Information

When signing up for free offers, you will often need to give personal information such as your name and address. The company cannot send you the free items without an address to mail them to. Under NO circumstance should you ever give your social security number for any reason.

Although I do not collect personal information from my readers, it is possible that Blogger, Google Adsense, or one of the links you click on from my posts will. Technology such as cookies might be used by these third-parties to target their advertisements. I do not have control over this but want you to be aware of it.  Additionally, if I host a contest, I will need information from the winner to send the prize.



Signing Up for Freebie = More Spam?

Spam is email that you did not request and have no way of opting out from receiving.

While you might notice you are getting more emails after signing up for freebies and coupons, these emails are not actually spam. I highly recommend creating a free email address to use when signing up for deals instead of using your personal email address. Sites such as Gmail, Hotmail, or Yahoo are reliable free email sites.

When you sign up for a free offer, often times clicking submit gives the company permission to add you to their mailing list. Legally there will always be an opt-out option, but it is not always easy to find. Most of the free offers are free because the companies hope it will lead to future sales.

Some offers also require a phone number, but I recommend not giving your real phone number and avoid mobile phone numbers unless it is necessary because similar to how giving your email gives them permission to send you emails, you are giving them permission to call or text. I have a Google Voice number, however it is still in beta stages and not yet open to the public. If you have not already done so, register for the national Do Not Call Registry. You can register any phone number, including cell phones.



Printing Coupons

Most online coupon sites will require you to install special software to print coupons. This software claims to be free of spyware and adware, and does not collect any personal information about the user. I personally use this software and have never had an issue with my computer, but I have read reports from others with different opinions on the issue.  You will also notice that some coupon sites print small text around the border of the coupons which if look closely includes the IP address the coupon was printed from.

For more information on coupons see the Rules of Coupons post.



Virus Protection

So you’ve heard about viruses but have the “it won’t happen to me” complex? Protecting yourself is simple and can cost as little as no money. That’s right, there are perfectly good virus/spyware protection available for free.

I am not claiming to be an expert on this however I requested some information from my IT friend to provide you with options.  He recommends Microsoft Security Essentials which is provided free by Microsoft to all Windows’ users. You can schedule automatic updates and system scans with it to protect your computer. 

AVG is another brand of protection that provides free basic protection. 

A third option is to keep an eye out for sales and rebates at stores.  I have found year subscriptions to some virus protections for free after rebate.

Disclaimer

Disclaimer

This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. This blog abides by word of mouth marketing standards. I believe in honesty of relationship, opinion and identity. Therefore, I feel that a disclaimer is a necessity. Since I have never written a disclaimer before, I have gotten help from DiscolsurePolicy.org which gives suggestions on the type of information that should be included in a blog’s disclaimer.

I have posted a Google AdSense widget on the blog, as well as a few referral links for sites that I personally use and feel would benefit my readers. These links can produce income but will not affect the content of the blog.

If offered, I will and do accept and keep free products, services, travel, event tickets, and other forms of compensation from companies and organizations. These compensations will not affect the content of posts and I will always give you an honest opinion. If I am given something in exchange for the post, I will inform you of that directly in the affected post.

In the future, I would be willing to use free items as reader incentives through contests on the blog.  To make a sweepstakes fair, I will select the winner using a random integer generator to choose a number.  The corresponding comment will be selected as the winner.

The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely mine. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question. I will always try to post links directly to this information when available.

Most images on Shopping4Deals come from Google's image search or a screenshot from the deal's website.  If you are the owner of an image and would like it removed, please email me and I will remove the image immediately.  I have created a few of the images for blog specific posts or edited together multiple images when a deal involves multiple products.

For questions about this blog, please contact me at shopping4dealstoday@gmail.com.