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Privacy Update: We partner with ValueClick to serve ads and/or collect certain information when you visit our website. ValueClick may use cookies or web beacons to collect non-personally identifiable information during your visit to this website in order to help show advertisements on other websites likely to be more interesting to you. To learn more about this “behavioral advertising” practice or to opt-out of this use of your anonymous information, you can visit http://valueclickmedia.com/member_privacy.shtml

Operation Costs: The GCNews is a large site and does not qualify for those so-called "free" web hosting offers. Nothing is free. The GCNews generates a massive amount of web traffic each day with up to one million "hits" per month, nearly 500-thousand unique visitors per day. Hosting fees, ISP fees, electricity, phone, computer maintenance, add up to roughly $412.00 monthly, and that doesn't include the labor it takes to bring you each weekday the newsbrief report alone. While we don't have to pay for labor, there are hours of it expended. With your merchant support and donations you are telling us you appreciate what we do and that takes the bill-paying burden off us.

While you are seeing ads, only one - in the left margin - on this particular page is a referral. The others are explained below and do generate some sales, but not enough so that we can avoid having to ask for your help.

THE ADS...

The large and rectangle banner ads at the top and right margin of most pages are pay per click. We get a referral fee of between $.10 and $.17 each time a reader visits the merchant. No purchase is necessary. Repeated clicking is discouraged and will be discounted by the banner ad company when detected.

Other ads you see are referral type. When you buy books, movies, etc., from Amazon, etc., we get a 5-10% commission based on your total purchase. Same for AVON and other merchants listed in what we call "corner stores".

To mail donations, use this address:

Brent Kellogg
439 Pearl St.
Oregon City, OR.  97045

 
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