Advertiser Policy
Effective date: February 20, 2026 | Version: 2026.02-global
This policy defines campaign quality requirements, prohibited behavior, and advertiser responsibilities.
Required Standards
- All ads must have truthful claims, clear destination URLs, and legally compliant disclosures.
- Landing pages must load correctly, match ad messaging, and avoid deceptive redirects.
- Advertisers must provide valid billing details and maintain sufficient wallet balance.
- Category, platform, geo, and schedule targeting must reflect actual campaign intent.
- Creative quality should meet readability and user-safety standards.
Prohibited Content
- Malware, phishing, spyware, forced downloads, and malicious scripts.
- Illegal products, counterfeit goods, and fraudulent financial schemes.
- Hate content, explicit violence, sexual exploitation, or child abuse content.
- Copyright-infringing or trademark-abusive creative.
- Fake traffic generation, click fraud, or bid manipulation attempts.
Enforcement
- Campaigns may be auto-rejected or paused when policy risk is detected.
- Repeated violations can lead to account suspension and payout hold.
- Platform logs and moderation records may be used for dispute resolution.
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Operational Interpretation and Regional Mapping
These requirements should be interpreted as global baseline controls for a live ad operations platform. Teams must map each requirement to local legal obligations, contractual duties, and traffic-source constraints before enabling production delivery at scale.
When regional regulations impose stricter standards, the stricter standard applies. Where legal ambiguity exists, operations should default to least-risk handling and documented escalation to legal or compliance owners.
Policy-to-Workflow Mapping
- Map each policy control to one concrete workflow checkpoint.
- Define accountable owner, review cadence, and evidence source.
- Link policy failures to clear remediation and rollback actions.
- Track policy exceptions with expiry and approval metadata.
Evidence and Audit Quality
- Keep verifiable logs for approvals, enforcement, and account state changes.
- Maintain immutable records for policy acceptance and version changes.
- Preserve incident evidence with timestamp accuracy and actor context.
- Support regulator and partner audits with structured evidence retrieval.
Release and Change Governance
- Run policy impact review before major workflow or billing changes.
- Gate high-risk releases behind compliance and security readiness checks.
- Document rollback criteria for policy or abuse regressions.
- Communicate material policy updates with effective-date clarity.
Extended Compliance Checklist
- Confirm access controls for admin, publisher, advertiser, and support roles.
- Verify domain ownership, sitemap coverage, and install-code integrity before launch.
- Validate ad creatives, landing behavior, and category eligibility rules.
- Ensure budget, spend, and settlement paths align with billing model selection.
- Run fraud and abuse controls for both ad-serving and click attribution pathways.
- Confirm user data handling for consent, retention, and rights-response timelines.
- Check payout safeguards, webhook integrity, and transaction audit visibility.
- Review security events, incident triage flow, and postmortem documentation quality.
- Ensure policy pages remain reachable, indexable, and version-consistent in sitemap.
- Require periodic policy refresh training for operational and support teams.
Policy FAQ for Operations Teams
How often should this policy be reviewed?
Review before each major release and at recurring governance intervals, especially when billing logic, targeting controls, or verification workflows change.
What happens if live behavior conflicts with policy text?
Live enforcement should default to safer behavior immediately, then trigger incident review and documented correction to either implementation or policy wording.
How should teams handle partner-specific requirements?
Apply partner requirements as stricter overlays where needed, while preserving baseline platform controls and maintaining auditable policy-to-process mapping.