Advertising Policy

WAR ATLAS is a free-to-read magazine. To help pay for running the site — hosting, software and the time spent on research — we plan to show advertising through Google AdSense. This policy explains how advertising works on this site, and the rules we follow.

Advertising is separate from editorial content

Advertisements are always clearly labelled as advertising, and they are visually separate from our articles. Our articles, maps, timelines and illustrations are editorial content, written by our team from historical sources. Advertising never appears inside an article as if it were part of the article, and no article is written to promote a product or service.

Advertising does not imply endorsement

An advertisement on this site does not mean that WAR ATLAS endorses, recommends or guarantees the advertised product, service or company. We do not review or test advertised products, and we are not responsible for them. If you buy something from an advertiser, your relationship is with that advertiser, not with us.

No paid placement in articles

We do not accept payment to include a product, link or message inside an article, and we do not publish sponsored articles or sponsored content of any kind. If that ever changes, we will say so openly on the site and in this policy.

No advertising on memorial and sensitive pages

We do not show advertising on memorial and sensitive pages — for example, pages about the Holocaust, concentration camps, and other sites of mass suffering and remembrance. These subjects should be read without commercial interruption, out of respect for the victims and for the readers.

Advertisers do not influence what we write

Editorial decisions are made by the editor alone, on the basis of the historical sources. Advertisers have no say in which subjects we cover, what we write, or how we write it. An advertiser cannot pay to have an article changed, removed or promoted.

How advertising works

Advertising is served by Google AdSense. Google and its partners may use cookies to show advertising that is relevant to you. You can control advertising cookies through your browser settings and through Google’s advertising settings. See our Cookie Policy and Privacy Policy.

How to report a problem with an advertisement

If you see an advertisement that is misleading, offensive, inappropriate for a history site, or that appears on a memorial page where it should not be, please tell us. Write to [email protected] and include, if you can, the address of the page where you saw the advertisement and a screenshot or a description of it. We will look into it and, where we can, block the advertisement or the advertiser.

Advertising helps keep this site free for everyone. We are grateful to readers who understand that, and we work to keep advertising honest, clearly labelled and out of the way of the history itself.