A rectangle. Nothing else on the page.
Ten slots, $2,000 each per 30 days, labelled "Paid notices" wherever they appear. That's the entire product. There's no tier that buys anything more, and the price is the same whether you're a sponsor we grade well or one we grade F.
The first 3 slots sold are $1,000 a month, and stay that price for as long as they run.
3 of 3 left. The rate is set by order of purchase and by nothing else: whatever your grade, the first three pay $1,000 per 30 days, and the fourth pays $2,000. A founding notice keeps its price while it runs without a break. A gap of a month or more ends it. The rate closes on 13 November 2026 or on the third sale, whichever comes first.
Where requests come from
| United States | 18,514 | |
|---|---|---|
| France | 3,871 | |
| Singapore | 1,904 | |
| China | 1,681 | |
| Germany | 1,345 | |
| United Kingdom | 1,235 | |
| Hong Kong | 715 | |
| Netherlands | 681 | |
| Belgium | 528 | |
| Poland | 400 | |
| Australia | 396 | |
| Mexico | 371 | |
| 100 other countries | 2,576 |
How we count, and what we won't do to count better
There's no analytics script on this site. No tracking pixel, no cookie, no session recording, no third party receiving anything about the person reading. That isn't a gap we're getting round to filling. A site that exists to document companies instrumenting their users without saying so has no business doing the same to its own.
What we do have is the count our CDN keeps anyway to serve the pages: requests, by country, by day. It exists whether or not anybody looks at it, so reading it back adds nothing to your visit, and it's deliberately the coarsest useful shape, a country and a number. There's no per-visitor record here to show a sponsor, and none to lose.
The cost of that choice is real, and it lands on you, not on us. We can't tell you click-through, time on page, or how many people who saw a notice went on to buy something. If a spend needs those numbers to be signed off, this is the wrong page and we'd rather say so now. The site is also young: first verdicts in August 2026, kept out of search results until the count was worth ranking. Treat any figure below as small and early, not as a media kit.
The firewall
No sponsor sees a grade before it publishes, and no grade has ever moved because a sponsor, current, former or prospective, complained about it. A company can buy a notice on the same page as a verdict that grades it F. That's intentional. The rail sells a labelled rectangle, not editorial influence.
The mechanism is public, not a promise. Every verdict quotes a clause that must exist character for character in an archived copy of the policy, or the site refuses to build. A grade can't be softened for a sponsor without changing what the company's own document says, and the archived copy is there for anyone to check.
What a notice is
A name, one line of copy you write, and a link, rendered exactly like the vacant-slot placeholder, just filled in. On a wide screen it sits in the rails beside every page. On a phone the ten slots split five and five into slim bars pinned to the top and bottom of the screen, each scrolling slowly sideways, so a notice stays visible while someone reads instead of waiting at the end of a page nobody reaches.
- — No image, script or tracking pixel. Text and a link.
- — No native ad styled to look like a verdict, ever.
- — Nothing inside the text column, and no takeover placements.
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rel="sponsored"on every link, because that's what it is.
How it works
Email us and say which slot you want, or let us pick the next free one.
Send the name, the one line and the link. We'll tell you if we think it won't land here (see Fit below) before you pay for anything.
It goes live on the next deploy and runs for 30 days. Your rate is held for twelve months from the day you first buy: if the price rises in that time, it rises for new sponsors, not for you.
Fit
This audience is here because they read privacy policies before agreeing to them. A notice for a tool that doesn't train on its users' data, or that competes on privacy specifically, tends to land. A notice for anything else probably won't convert, and we'll tell you that before you buy a slot, not after.
One asymmetry to know about: if you sell a product we track, readers can click straight from your notice to your verdict. That's excellent if your policy is good and quotable, and uncomfortable if it isn't. Read your own entry first.
The ten slots
What a bought slot looks like
A name, one line you write yourself, a link, your mark, and your colour on the keyline. That's the whole product. The two renderings below are all a slot ever becomes. Fernbank Mail is invented, and these two aren't links: nobody has bought a slot yet, and an example isn't an agreement to appear here.
Fernbank MailEmail we cannot read. By design.for saleYour colour is a keyline and a 10% wash, never a solid fill and never red. Red on this site means a grade, and a notice wearing it would read as editorial. Send us your mark as a file and we serve it from this domain. We won't pull it from a favicon service, because that would tell a third party which page every reader of this site is on, and we grade companies for less.
What to send, and what happens next
Send all four with your enquiry and there's nothing to go back and forth about. Every limit below is enforced by the build, not by someone remembering it. Copy over the length simply fails to deploy, so the numbers are real, not a guideline.
- Name
- Up to 22 characters. Your company, not a tagline. The tagline is the next field.
- One line
- Up to 60 characters, which is two lines in the rail. You write it. We don't rewrite it, and we don't add adjectives to it.
- Mark
- A square file. SVG preferred, PNG or WebP accepted. It renders at 24px in the rail and 16px in the ticker, so it has to survive 16px: an icon will, a wordmark won't. Send the file. We serve it from this domain and won't pull it from a favicon service, because that would tell a third party which page every reader of this site is on.
- Colour
- One hex, used as a keyline and a 10% wash behind your notice. Any colour except red. Red on this site means a grade, and a notice wearing it would read as editorial.
Then: we check the mark renders at 16px, that the line fits, and that the link goes where it says. Reviewed within one business day, and you hear back either way. If something needs changing we tell you what and why. We don't edit it ourselves. Nothing goes live until you've seen it, and nothing about your notice touches a verdict, including your own, if you have one.
Questions
All ten slots are taken. Now what?
You wait, and we tell you when one frees up. There's no eleventh slot, no premium placement above the others, and no bumping an existing sponsor for a higher bid. Ten fits the layout without crowding the verdicts. Adding more would change what you bought without saying so.
We are graded on this site. Can we still sponsor?
Yes, including if we grade you F. The notice sits on the same page as the verdict and neither one moves the other. What you can't buy is a change to the grade, advance notice of one, or the removal of your own verdict. If you ask, we'll say no, and the answer won't be private.
What if our grade changes during the run?
It changes, and your notice keeps running. Grades follow the quoted clause: if the policy moves, the verdict moves. We won't sit on a change because a sponsor is mid-run, and we won't end a run early because a grade got worse.
How many people will see it?
We can tell you how many requests the CDN served, by country, over the last week. It's on this page. We can't tell you impressions, click-through or attribution, because measuring those means running something in the reader's browser, and we don't. If a spend needs a conversion number signed off, this is the wrong page, and we'd rather lose the sale than install a tracker to win it.
Can we get a refund?
If we haven't run the notice yet, of course. Once a run has started we'll refund the unused days pro rata if you want out, for any reason, including disliking a verdict. We'd rather return money than have a sponsor who feels stuck.
Do you take a design or a logo?
A name, one line of text and a link. No images, no scripts, no tracking pixels. Partly because they'd slow the page, mostly because a third-party pixel on a site about data collection would be indefensible.
- — No tiers, no premium positions
- — Your rate held for 12 months
- — Pro-rata refund, any reason
- — No contract, no auto-renew