When you come to our website and read health articles, you may sometimes see various advertisements, right? So, you may also have questions like "Who publishes these advertisements?", "Do these affect our medical information?", "How reliable are these?". In this article, we are talking about giving clear, open answers to all your questions. Because, your trust is the most valuable thing to us.
Medical information and advertising are two different things!
First, let's be clear. The editorial content and advertising on our website are two completely different and unrelated areas. Our primary goal is to provide you with accurate, up-to-date, and reliable medical information. Advertising is paid content that a third party, a company or organization (the `Advertiser`), places on your website to promote their products or services.
We never change the information in our medical articles or write in favor of a particular product for the sake of advertising. You can be 100% confident in that.
Every advertisement we publish on our website is clearly identified with a label such as "Advertisement", "Sponsored", or "From Our Advertiser". So you can easily distinguish between the two.
We don't accept every ad - our strict rules
We cannot advertise on our website for money. We have the full right to decide which ads we accept and which we reject. Our main goal is to protect you from ads that are misleading, harmful to your health, or contain untrue information.
The fact that we have published an advertisement does not mean that we endorse that product or service. The accuracy and completeness of the information contained in that advertisement is the sole responsibility of the company publishing the advertisement.
Types of ads we never publish
There are certain types of ads that we do not allow on our website for any reason. We are very concerned about your safety and trust. Please see the table below for a list of the types of ads that we prohibit.
| Prohibited ad type | Simply put... |
|---|---|
| Illegal, dangerous, or ineffective products | Things that we think are against the law, could be dangerous to use, or have no use. |
| Fraudulent, misleading advertisements | Advertisements that have no scientific basis and deceive people, such as "miracle medicine that will help you lose 20 kilos in 7 days." |
| Ads that insult individuals or groups | Ads that insult or degrade anyone based on things like age, race, religion, gender, disability, etc. |
| Alcohol, tobacco and drugs | Ads related to alcohol, cigarettes, or any other tobacco product. |
| Weapons, gambling and inappropriate scenes | Ads containing guns, fireworks, gambling, and pornography. |
| Ads aimed at young children | Ads directly targeted at children under the age of 13. |
| Ads that look like computer activity | Ads that try to trick you into clicking on them by displaying a message like "Your computer has a virus!" |
What happens to your personal data?
This is also very important. Some ads may contain technologies (such as `Pixels` or `Cookies`) that collect small amounts of information about your internet usage. However, we allow this under some very strict rules.
- Personally-Identifiable Information (PII): We do not allow any company to collect any personally identifiable information about you through ads, such as your name, email address, or phone number.
- Data non-association: We do not allow anonymous data collected through ads (e.g., the web pages you visit) to be associated with your personal data obtained from other sources.
- You have control: You can block and delete these cookies at any time by changing the settings in your web browser.
Simply put, we won't let your privacy be compromised just because you use our website.
Removing ads
We reserve the right to remove an ad from our site at any time if we find that it violates our policies. Additionally, it is the responsibility of the advertising companies to comply with the laws and regulations of their country (e.g., Food and Drug Administration - `FDA` - guidelines).
Our policy may change at any time. If we do, we will update this page.
Take-Home Message
- The medical articles and advertisements published on our website are two completely separate things.
- Providing you with reliable, accurate health information is our priority. That information will not change because of an advertisement.
- Every ad we publish is clearly labeled as "Advertisement" or "Sponsored".
- We reject ads that are misleading, unhealthy, fraudulent, and many other inappropriate things.
- We are very concerned about your privacy and data security.
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