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Ethics Policy

Hometalk holds itself to the highest of ethical standards to ensure a safe, positive online space for all people without discrimination--providing wholesome and valuable content to people across the world interested in creating a home they love. We adhere to all laws and legal regulations and allow users to use the hometalk.com site and content only for lawful purposes. Users are prohibited from posting on or transmitting through hometalk.com any unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, sexually explicit, profane, hateful, racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable material of any kind, including but not limited to any material that encourages conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, national, or international law.

 

If hometalk.com is notified of allegedly infringing, defamatory, damaging, illegal, or offensive content provided by any user, hometalk.com may investigate the allegation and determine in its sole discretion whether to remove or request the removal of such content from hometalk.com. hometalk.com may disclose any content or electronic communication of any kind (i) to satisfy any law, regulation, or government request; (ii) if such disclosure is necessary or appropriate to operate hometalk.com; or (iii) to protect the rights or property of hometalk.com, its users or Providers.

 

hometalk.com reserves the right to prohibit conduct, communication, or content that it deems in its sole discretion to be harmful to individual users, the hometalk.com site, the communities that makeup hometalk.com, or any rights of hometalk.com or its affiliates or any other party, or to violate any applicable law.

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Corrections Policy

If we become aware of something that is inaccurate or needs to be corrected for any reason with respect to Hometalk content, the Hometalk editorial team will work with the content contributor to make sure the necessary edits are made.

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Fact-Checking Policy

Hometalk works with a community of thousands of experienced DIY content contributors from across the world to provide high quality, authoritative inspiration and tutorial content for the home and garden DIY decor and improvement space. Our in-house editorial team reviews all incoming content to make sure only the highest quality content is featured across our various on-site and social media distribution channels. Our editorial team along with the Hometalk community of DIY experts also helps answer any questions that people may have with respect to Hometalk content they consume.