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Why Donate?
The Secure Surfing Organization is funded entirely by Walking Dolphins Consultancy Inc. In effect our clients are subsidizing the provision of this resource for anyone in the world. SSO, through Walking Dolphins, does receive contributions from Sponsors and Affiliates. These are “earned contributions” and not straight gifts. So if a user clicks on a sponsored link or buys a product through this web site, SSO receives a contribution that can vary from a few cents to a few dollars.
These contributions are not nearly enough to cover the costs of the service. Donations as small as a dollar add up. $10.00 pays for one month of hosting fees. $5.00 pays for 5 minutes of professional content creation or 10 minutes of software testing.
No government money supports the site and other than the earned contributions, there are no corporate donations (although such donations would be very welcome).
A great deal of time has gone into building the site, supplying it with tools you can use and maintaining it over time.
If and only if you see value in this site, then you should consider donating.
You can choose what value you have found or that you want to ensure is available to others. Did you get a buck’s worth of information? Is it worth as much as a newspaper? Any amount you feel is fair is welcome.
If you find what we are doing of some help, please consider donating.
PLEASE DO NOT CLICK ON LINKS IN WHICH YOU ARE NOT GENUINELY INTERESTED. While doing so may appear to be “helping” besides amounting to causing SSO to be a thief (taking money for nothing real) it actively hurts the organization. This is because sponsors are very knowledgeable about what are “real” clicks and what are not. They have excellent statistics on the expected rations of clicks and how many clicks result in actual sales. They very quickly detect a source of large click volumes that result in no follow-through action. When they do just suspect such activity, the web site is blacklisted and sponsors abandon the organization.
This does not apply to featured products (if we are directly recommending a product). If you see something in a banner add or an visual ad, feel free to click even just out of mild curiosity. These sponsors do not make any contribution unless there is an actual sales transaction and so they are not concerned with “phony clicks.” As well, you should feel free to download any of the free software or trial software just to play with it as again where there are sponsors involved there is no contribution without a sale.
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