Operating standard / 04

Commercial disclosures

The rules for affiliate links, sponsored placements, provider introductions, rankings, and related BC properties.

01

No approval, no link

A public partner program is not an approved Parcel & Key relationship. No tracked link, widget, lead transfer, or payout claim is activated until written acceptance and current terms are recorded.

02

Adjacent disclosure

When a material connection exists, the relationship and compensation model appear beside the button or claim that can generate value. Disclosure is not delegated to a remote policy page.

03

Commercial inquiries

A sponsorship, research-support, data-licensing, or provider-pilot inquiry does not create a relationship or placement right. Activation requires written scope, disclosure, measurement, and any applicable licensing or regulatory review. A sponsor receives no subscriber list, consumer-lead data, or editorial control.

04

Provider qualification

A provider application is only a diligence record. No application status creates public approval or activation. A live commercial path additionally requires verified credentials and insurance where applicable, written terms, a complaints route, outcome attribution, adjacent compensation disclosure, and recipient-specific consumer consent. Mortgage applications remain on regulatory hold until transition-specific review is complete; legal referral fees and paid real-estate lead generation are excluded.

05

Provider introductions

A provider receives personal data only after the user sees the named recipient, purpose, data fields, compensation disclosure, and retention context, then provides explicit consent. Mortgage, legal, inspection, and real-estate boundaries receive additional review.

06

Rankings and related properties

Payment does not influence an editorial ranking. Related BC publishing assets may receive a contextual deep link only when they are the natural next resource. There are no sitewide reciprocal footers, cloned pages, or exact-match link loops.

Commercial boundary

No provider paid to appear on this page. Parcel & Key does not accept legal referral fees or paid real-estate-agent leads. Future partner links will be labelled beside the action and activated only after written approval.