Advertising & Sponsored Content Policy

Sponsorship never buys editorial coverage. Our blog, guides, tools, benchmark data, and product recommendations are produced independently of any advertising relationship, and no sponsor reviews or approves editorial content before publication.

Sponsored content is written or reviewed with the sponsor and published under a Sponsored label. It is never presented as independent editorial.

Every paid placement carries a visible Sponsored, Advertisement, or Powered by label. Sponsored blog posts carry the label in the byline area and at the top of the post. Sponsored email placements are labeled in the module itself.

Vendor directory listings are paid placements and are labeled as such on the directory page.

FIN Group does not endorse, recommend, rank, or vouch for any advertiser's product or service, and we do not provide testimonials for sponsors. Sponsors may not describe a paid placement as a FIN Group recommendation, endorsement, certification, or approval.

Our consultants do not receive compensation tied to advertising placements, and advertising status has no bearing on the vendors we discuss with clients in a consulting engagement.

Some of our advertisers and readers are SEC- or state-registered investment advisers subject to Rule 206(4)-1 (the Marketing Rule) and comparable FINRA communications rules. Advertisers remain solely responsible for their own creative complying with the rules that apply to them, including testimonial and endorsement disclosure, performance presentation, and recordkeeping.

Our placements are not designed to be, and should not be treated as, a testimonial or endorsement arrangement, cash solicitation arrangement, or promoter compensation arrangement on behalf of any adviser.

Our separate referral partner program, which does involve compensation for referrals, is disclosed separately on the partner program page and is not part of any advertising placement.

We decline creative that is misleading, makes unsubstantiated performance or guarantee claims, implies FIN Group endorsement, targets consumers with unsuitable products, uses fear-based regulatory scare tactics, or impersonates a regulator or self-regulatory organization.

We do not accept creative from unregistered securities offerings to retail audiences, crypto token promotions, or any advertiser whose offering we believe presents an investor-protection concern.

We do not run third-party ad-network tags, cross-site tracking pixels, retargeting scripts, or auto-play audio inside our logged-in products. Impression and click tracking is first-party and reported by us.

Sponsors do not receive user-level data. Reporting is aggregate impressions, clicks, and click-through rate. Lead data is shared only for gated download or lead-generation placements, only for users who affirmatively submit a form that names the sponsor, and only for the fields disclosed on that form.

We do not sell subscriber lists. Email placements are delivered by us; sponsors never receive the list.

Category exclusive placements are capped at one sponsor per vertical or category and are sold on an annual basis. Availability is published on the advertising page and updated as slots are committed.

Standard terms: invoiced monthly or annually in advance, 30 days net, 30-day written notice to cancel a month-to-month flight, no cancellation for annual prepay commitments other than for our failure to deliver. Make-goods are provided when delivery falls materially short of the committed placement.

We may pause or remove any placement that violates this policy, with a pro-rated credit for undelivered days.

FIN Group operates consulting, fund administration, and software businesses. Where an advertiser competes with one of our own products, we disclose that in the placement context and continue to run the placement on published rate-card terms.

Questions about this policy, or a concern about a specific placement, can be sent to Cory@fincompliance.io.