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Disclosure

Affiliate disclosure

Published 2026-08-10 · Last reviewed 2026-09-24

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, sit under a visible “Sponsored” label, and are preceded by a one-line disclosure on the page itself.

Amazon Associates

zipradar.org is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.

Where these links appear: only on a few Learn guides whose own text tells you to test something at your address — a radon test, a private-well water panel, a lead-in-water check. The link points to an Amazon search for that kind of test kit. We do not pick a brand, we do not show prices, and a kit measures a condition — it does not treat one. Data pages (/topic/, /zip/) carry no affiliate links.

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.