Affiliate disclosure

Why we're holding off

New websites do not benefit from monetization links until they have earned the search-engine and reader trust to be worth recommending in the first place. We're in the earliest phase of the site, so for now, our priorities are:

1. Build a reader base who find the guides genuinely useful
2. Cite primary sources for every factual claim so readers can verify
3. Demonstrate to search engines that the content here is original and source-cited

Adding affiliate links before any of those is true would dilute the editorial signal we're trying to establish, and would degrade the experience for the readers who do find us.

What we'll do when we do add affiliate links

When the site has established readership and rankings, we plan to add affiliate links to legitimate legal services that match what readers of each page actually need. When we do:

• Every affiliate link will be visibly disclosed in line on the page where it appears, per FTC guidance.
• The underlying HTML will carry rel="sponsored nofollow".
• Recommendations will be governed by the editorial policy below — not by which advertiser pays the most.
• We will not accept "sponsored content" in editorial pages, paid removal of negative coverage, or anything that compromises editorial independence.

Our editorial policy (whether or not money is involved)

We will only recommend a service if all three of the following are true:

1. The service is legitimate and operates in good faith with consumers.
2. For a typical reader of the page where the recommendation appears, the service is a reasonable starting point.
3. We would recommend the same service to a friend in the same situation.

Conversely:

• We will recommend free or government-provided options when they're the right answer.
• We will not recommend services we believe are predatory, regardless of payout potential.
• We will not invent reviews, fabricate experience with services we haven't evaluated, or write fake testimonials.

What we don't do (and won't)

• Sell your data. Email signups go to our newsletter list; we don't sell or share that list.
• Accept paid "sponsored content" in editorial pages.
• Take money to remove negative coverage of a service.
• Promote services with documented patterns of fraud or consumer harm.

Questions

If you have a question about our editorial policy, or want to flag a service we should not recommend if and when we do start affiliate relationships, contact us.

Last updated: May 16, 2026.