Policy · effective 2026-09-12
Advertising and commercial disclosure
The present advertising state and the boundary between commercial content and comparison results.
Current status
Google AdSense is not active in this release. Reserved advertisement areas do not contain live ad units. Their presence does not mean Google has reviewed or approved the site.
STACKOPTIMA does not currently present paid placement, sponsored rankings, or affiliate links within the comparison workspace.
Separation from decisions
If advertising is activated, ads will be labeled and visually separated from navigation, calculator controls, comparison tables, and recommendation results. Advertising will not determine comparison scores, data labels, or editorial conclusions.
A commercial relationship will never be presented as independent evidence. Readers should be able to distinguish a provider source, a STACKOPTIMA analysis, and a paid placement at a glance.
Affiliates and sponsorships
If an affiliate link, sponsored article, referral arrangement, or other material commercial relationship is introduced, it will be disclosed clearly where the relationship is relevant—not buried in a general policy page.
A disclosure does not turn a commercial claim into a recommendation. Comparison calculations and editorial conclusions remain subject to the methodology and correction standards described elsewhere on the site.
Before activation
Activating advertising requires a real publisher configuration, a review of placement and privacy requirements, and consent controls appropriate to the enabled services and audience. Approval, traffic, and revenue are not guaranteed.
Before activation, STACKOPTIMA will update the Privacy and data use notice to describe the services actually enabled rather than hypothetical advertising behavior.