Affiliate disclosure

This page explains, in plain English, how zipradar.org may earn money from links — as required by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) endorsement guides (16 CFR Part 255).

The short version

• Some links on this site may become affiliate links. If you click one and then buy something or sign up, we may earn a commission.
• A commission never costs you anything extra — you pay the same price either way.
• Commissions never change what we publish. Data, scores, risk classifications, and rankings come from public records (EPA, FEMA, FBI, NCES, county sources) and are computed the same way whether or not a partner exists.
• We never accept payment to alter data or scores, and we never label sponsored content as editorial.

How you can tell

Affiliate links on zipradar carry rel="sponsored nofollow noopener" in the page markup, and pages containing them are disclosed. As of the last-reviewed date above, affiliate partnerships are launching and no affiliate links are live yet; this policy applies to any that go live.

Our rules for partner links

• Recommendations appear only where they help the reader’s actual decision.
• We never ask, pressure, or reward you for clicking a link.
• If a data source ever becomes a paying partner, that relationship is disclosed on the about page and the methodology page before any content ships.

Questions

Ask anything about this policy: hello@caslonmedia.com. Partnership inquiries: see partner with zipradar.