ORBlogs Ethics Policy

Your trust is our most important asset, and our ethics policy is designed to assure we do nothing to violate it. Every ORBlogs employee has pledged to uphold its principles. We welcome your feedback on how we are doing.

Our goal is to provide a thorough and objective political news site to our community of users. ORBlogs news postings are the best we know how to produce. They are unbiased and are the untainted product of our community of users. We do not accept payment for them or their rankings and never will. From time to time, we will display advertising. It will clearly labeled, and, similar to a newspaper, advertisements will not influence the posting of news stories or blogs. We will do our best to eliminate from the site postings that blatantly promote corporate products or services. In short, we believe it is important to provide the best information to our viewers.

Underscoring our daily efforts to build and maintain ORBlogs are several fundamental priorities. We support the freedom of speech, expression and ideas, and will do everything we can to promote these bedrock human values on ORBlogs

Because we at ORBlogs are in the news business, we will from time to time post stories based on our original reporting. In doing so, we adhere to a strict journalistic code of ethics. Among our core values are fairness, accuracy and independence. We will never knowingly misrepresent a story, source or posting on our site. We will never allow the business or commercial interests of an employee to influence news decisions. We will never accept meals, drinks, other gifts, or payments in the process of news coverage. We will always identify ourselves as ORBlogs employees in all news related circumstances. We will never plagiarize.

Finally, as an Internet site with an active group of users, we will honor your desire for privacy and will never release your personal information to third parties without your permission. We have designed our site to allow you to provide personal information as an option, with the exception of your name and e-mail address at registration. Please only provide personal data when you are comfortable doing so. We want you to enjoy the site without reservations.

This is our promise to you,