Ads & Affiliates
Policy
My Medicine Advisor is free to use. To keep it that way, we show ads. This page explains, honestly, how the site is funded, how ads work here, what we can and can’t control about them, and how advertising is kept separate from the content we publish.
“Ads keep the site free, but they don’t shape what we write. I’d rather explain plainly how the funding works than pretend it doesn’t exist — that’s the honest way to run this.”— Sameer Patel | Founder & Editor, My Medicine Advisor
How the Site Is Funded
We keep this simple and honest. Here’s where the money comes from and what it pays for.
Advertising
The site is funded mainly by display advertising — the banner and in-page ads you see around the content. Ads are served through a Google Certified Publishing Partner, using Google’s ad network. This is what keeps the tools and articles free to use.
No Affiliate Links (Currently)
We don’t currently use affiliate links and don’t earn commissions from purchases. If we ever add them, we’ll disclose them clearly and they won’t change your price or what we recommend. More on this below.
Free for Everyone
There’s no paywall and no subscription. Ad revenue is what lets every reader use the site for free, without an account.
Advertising Doesn’t Influence Our Content
Advertisers and affiliate partners have no say in what we publish, how topics are covered, or what our articles and tools say. The content is researched from primary medical sources and edited independently of the ads. Earning revenue from a topic never changes how we write about it.
How Ads Work Here — What We Do and Don’t Control
This is the part most ad policies leave vague. We’d rather be straight about it, because it sets the right expectation.
Google Chooses the Specific Ads
Ads on this site are served automatically through a Google Certified Publishing Partner, using Google’s ad network. That means Google’s systems — not us — decide which individual ads appear on any given page, often based on the page topic and, with consent, the visitor’s Google ad settings. We don’t hand-pick or pre-approve each advertiser.
What We Can Control
We can use the ad controls available to us to block certain ad categories and keep ads in sensible places, and we keep ads out of the way of the tools themselves as much as we can. What we can’t do is individually vet every ad before it shows — so if you ever see one that seems misleading or inappropriate, please tell us (details below) and we’ll block it and report it to Google.
🏷️ How to spot an ad
Ads are generally marked by Google (for example with an “Ads by Google” or “AdChoices” marker). Anything that isn’t marked as an ad is our own independent content.
Affiliate Links
A short, honest note on where we stand.
We don’t currently use affiliate links
As of now, My Medicine Advisor does not use affiliate links, and we don’t earn commissions from product purchases. If that changes in future, we’ll be upfront about it: we’ll disclose affiliate links clearly on the pages where they appear, they will never change the price you pay or influence what we recommend, and we’ll update this page to say so.
Ads We Don’t Want on the Site
Because Google serves the ads, we can’t guarantee a specific ad will never appear — but here’s the kind of advertising we actively try to block, and that we’ll remove if you flag it.
Misleading Health Claims
“Miracle cures,” unproven treatments, or anything that contradicts mainstream medical guidance.
Unapproved Products
Drugs, supplements, or devices making medical claims without proper regulatory approval.
Disruptive Formats
Ads that block content, hijack the page, or auto-play sound — we keep the reading experience clean where we can.
Ads Disguised as Content
Anything designed to look like one of our articles rather than clearly being an ad.
Ads & Your Data
Here’s the honest picture of how advertising interacts with your information.
We Don’t Sell Your Data
We don’t sell, rent, or hand over your personal information to advertisers. The numbers you enter into our calculators run in your browser and aren’t part of any ad system.
Ads Use Cookies
Our ad partner serves ads through Google’s network, which uses cookies to show ads and, with your consent, to make them more relevant. This is standard for ad-supported sites. You can read more in Google’s own ad-privacy information.
You’re in Control
You can manage or turn off personalised ads through our Cookie Settings and via your Google Ad Settings. Declining personalised ads never affects your access to the tools.
Report a Bad Ad
If an ad on the site looks misleading, inappropriate, or out of place, tell us. Because the ads are served by Google, your reports genuinely help — they let us block and report problem ads we’d otherwise never see.
Email Us
Send us the details and we’ll look into it. The more you can include, the faster we can act.
What We’ll Do
We read every ad report. When something’s wrong, we act on it.
Useful References
If you’d like to read the underlying rules and resources we follow, here they are.
Ads Keep It Free. Content Stays Independent.
Ads clearly marked. Content kept independent. Your data not for sale.