Gold IRA Digest is an independent, advertiser-supported publisher. We earn money when readers we introduce contact the companies we feature, and that compensation affects where and how those companies appear on this site. This page sets out how it works and what the Federal Trade Commission requires us to tell you under 16 CFR 255.
How we earn
We earn money when dealers receive readers from us. A dealer pays us when a reader who completes our matching quiz is introduced to it, and our partner pays us for readers who reach it through links on this site. We are paid per reader, not per position. Partner status can affect where a company appears, and no company can pay for a better review or rating. Nothing is charged to you, there is no subscription, and there is no paid tier of this site.
Where a page carries a paid link, the disclosure appears at the top of that page rather than only in the footer, which is why you see it in the bar on every page of this site.
Our partners
Advantage Gold is a paid partner of Gold IRA Digest. Pages about Advantage Gold link to its site, and it appears first on our ranked lists. Every page where a partner appears carries a notice at the top saying so.
What a commercial relationship changes
Compensation and our own research both influence which companies we feature and the order in which they appear, including which company is listed first. It does not change the figures we print. Fees, minimums and ratings come from our fee database and from the rating platforms themselves, with the source named on each page. Partners cannot pay for a better review or rating, and every company, partner or not, is described from the same data and in the same terms.
What we refuse
- Changing a published fee, minimum or rating because a company pays us.
- Customer testimonials and star ratings, because we have no customers and inventing them would breach 16 CFR 465 outright.
- Review schema markup on pages with no genuine review basis behind it.
- Selling your contact details to anyone, including to a dealer you did not ask to speak to.
Your details
If you complete a form here that routes you to a dealer, that dealer is named on screen before you submit, and your consent to be contacted covers that named company alone. The record of what you agreed to, and when, is stored with the submission so it can be produced later.
Several states run their own telephone-consent statutes that are stricter than the federal rule, so consent captured here is specific rather than blanket. You can withdraw it at any point by replying STOP to a message or using the unsubscribe link in any email. The privacy page covers what is stored and for how long.
The FTC position this is written to
The Federal Trade Commission's Endorsement Guides at 16 CFR 255 require a material connection to be disclosed clearly and conspicuously, and the Commission has said repeatedly that a link buried in a footer does not meet that standard. This page, and the bar carried at the top of every page on this site, are our disclosure for the purposes of that rule.
Nothing on this site is investment, tax, or legal advice, and we are not a dealer, a custodian, a broker, or a registered adviser.