Sponsor policy

Sponsored placements may include a sponsor name, logo, short neutral description, and link. Paid sponsor links are labeled and use appropriate sponsored-link attributes where supported by the platform.

Sponsorship and support do not create editorial control, article review rights, research guarantees, identity certification, legal advice, ancestry certification, or influence over corrections or source conclusions.

Display ads are disabled until AdSense approval and placement review. CultureUp does not show empty ad boxes during review. When ads are enabled, they must remain visually separate from editorial and source material.

CultureUp sponsorships may include aggregated cultural-lane and reader-path reporting. Those reports can describe page groups, topics, Dispatch interest, support clicks, and sponsor clicks in aggregate.

CultureUp does not provide sponsors with personal reader identities, household profiles, device-level profiles, private source packets, unpublished drafts, or identity-graph data. Sponsor reporting must remain privacy safe and separate from editorial judgment.

We do not accept sponsor placements that promote deceptive claims, hate, harassment, adult content, gambling, predatory financial offers, miracle health claims, legal-status claims, ancestry or identity certification, political campaign persuasion, misinformation, malware, surveillance tools, or content that conflicts with the educational purpose of the sites.

We reserve the right to decline or remove sponsor placements that violate this policy. Voluntary sponsorship payments are generally non-refundable except for duplicate charges, technical billing errors, sponsor-policy declines before placement, or legally required reversals.