Advertising Policy

Advertising principles

OmniTrackr is a media tracking app first. Ads help pay for it, but they shouldn't make the app harder to use, cover content, look like controls, or interrupt you while you manage your collection.

Where ads may appear

OmniTrackr may show Google AdSense ads on a small set of public pages that are complete on their own: the In order and If you liked guides, the longer how-to guides such as the import and backup guide, the sample library, member reviews long enough to have a page of their own, title pages with substantial member reviews, and Release Radar lists with enough titles to fill a page. Signed-in members don't see ads anywhere on the site.

Some pages never carry ads: the homepage, sign-in and sign-up, the interactive demo, the Discover guides and monthly editions, the Daily puzzle, review and collection directories, and policy pages like this one.

Ads should not be placed inside private account forms, password reset flows, account settings, collection editing forms, import/export controls, or friend/privacy controls. Logged-in user content and private collection data remain governed by account privacy settings and the Privacy Policy.

Those pages were picked because visitors read them before signing in. Account areas hold your personal library, ratings, notes, settings, and the controls you use to manage them, and ads would only get in the way there. When ads are on, they stay on the reading pages and out of anything private.

Affiliate links

Some public pages, such as Release Radar and standalone review details, may include a clearly labelled "Find it on Amazon" or "Pre-order or buy on Amazon" link. As an Amazon Associate, OmniTrackr earns from qualifying purchases made through those links, at no extra cost to you. They open a store search in a new tab and are marked as sponsored links.

Affiliate links never decide what appears on Release Radar, how titles are ordered, or which reviews are shown. Discover trails remain free of affiliate links, and private libraries, account settings, and forms never contain them.

How placements are reviewed

An ad placement has to meet the same usability bar as the rest of the site. A placement is out if it makes navigation unclear, covers a form, looks like a download button, pushes the main article below the fold on small screens, or interrupts a visitor who is trying to compare tracking options.

Pages also have to work without ads. Public pages should stay readable when ads are unavailable, blocked, or slow to load, and no page needs an ad script to show its main text, public links, privacy disclosures, guide content, or review snippets.

• Ads should be visually distinct from OmniTrackr buttons and navigation.
• Ads should not appear in modal dialogs, forms, or account-management surfaces.
• Ads should leave enough spacing for readable guide content on mobile.
• Ads should be removed or moved if they make people trust the app less.

Advertising data and choices

Google and advertising partners may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, browser information, device identifiers, and similar technologies on pages that contain ads. They are used to serve and measure ads, prevent fraud, produce reports, and personalize ads where that is allowed.

For visitors in the EEA, United Kingdom, and Switzerland, OmniTrackr must configure an appropriate Google-certified consent management platform before serving personalized ads. That account-side configuration is reviewed separately from this page and must remain consistent with Google's current publisher requirements. Google does not treat CMP certification as a guarantee of full legal compliance.

Google's AdSense Help Center explains the publisher consent-management requirements and the European regulations message available through Privacy & messaging.

Learn more in the OmniTrackr Privacy Policy, Google's partner sites policy, and Google Ad Settings.

Quality and user experience

• No pop-up ad walls or forced interstitials are planned for normal media tracking.
• Ads should not push primary content off screen on mobile pages.
• Navigation, sign-in, registration, and public review links should remain easy to find.
• Public pages should still work if ads fail to load or a visitor blocks them.

Ads are there to keep OmniTrackr free, and pages shouldn't be crowded with them. The public pages explain how to use the tracker: how to organize backlogs, compare alternatives, write better reviews, export data, and set privacy options. Ads sit next to that writing and never take its place.

Ad placement review checklist

Before adding or keeping a placement, we check whether the page still works for someone who came to read about media tracking and has no interest in the ad. The article heading, navigation, primary explanation, related links, and privacy controls should remain visible and usable without waiting for an ad script.

• The page should still have its original text, links, and structure when ads are blocked.
• The ad area should not sit between a form label and its input, or between a review title and review body.
• An ad should not be the first real thing a visitor sees on a public guide.
• The placement should be removed from pages that are mainly legal, privacy, support, account, or authentication content.

Making money from a page comes second to keeping visitors' trust. You should be able to read a guide, compare tracker options, look up the review standards, and decide whether to create an account without feeling pushed toward ads.

Related pages

Read the Privacy Policy, browse the guide library, preview the demo library, inspect the sample library, or explore public reviews.