Disclosures
Disclose revenue surfaces before they shape the reading experience
Ads, sponsors, affiliates, analytics, and evidence claims should be visible, limited, and reviewed before public promotion.
Disclosures
Keep monetization visible, limited, and separate from evidence
TheFoundationsOf.us can grow revenue surfaces only after the public disclosure, privacy, consent, and evidence gates are visible. Educational trust comes first.
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Ads
AdSense infrastructure exists, but visitor ad rendering should remain off until privacy, consent, mobile layout, and placement review are complete.
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Sponsors
Sponsor products require a sponsor policy, clear labels, and a rule that sponsors never control editorial conclusions.
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Affiliate links
Affiliate links require near-link disclosure, an affiliate registry, and careful exclusion from sensitive identity or claim-review contexts.
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Analytics
Add analytics only after privacy-policy, consent, cookie, and PII-review decisions are recorded.
Active workflow
Evidence review
Sensitive claims stay cautious until source review captures what the evidence supports and what remains open.
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Identity certification
The site is educational and does not certify identity, ancestry, tribe, nationality, DNA conclusions, legal status, descent, or membership.
Non-cuttable rules
- No direct ad rollout without visible disclosures.
- No sponsor rollout without sponsor policy and disclosure placement.
- No affiliate links without near-link affiliate disclosure.
- No unsupported revenue or traffic claims.
- No third-party cookie identity graph or PII in outbound URLs.
- No sponsor control over editorial conclusions.
- No deceptive ad labels or language asking visitors to click ads.
- No high-density ads on source-review, claim-review, safe-sharing, intake, or identity-sensitive pages.
- No legal-status, tribal-status, identity-certification, miracle-ancestry, or predatory offers.