Storyious Advertising Policy
Effective Date: May 16, 2025
At Storyious.com, we believe in maintaining a transparent and respectful reading environment for all our users. While advertising helps sustain our platform and support our storytellers, it should never compromise our core values: creativity, integrity, and reader trust.
This Advertising Policy outlines how we manage and display advertisements, affiliate links, and sponsored content across the Storyious website.
1. How We Use Advertising
To support the ongoing growth, technical upkeep, and free access to diverse stories across genres, such as bedtime stories, moral stories, fables, and horror stories, we may feature limited advertisements in the following formats
- Display banners
- In-content ads
- Sponsored stories
- Affiliate links (where we may earn a small commission, at no extra cost to the user)
We are committed to ensuring that all ads are non-intrusive, relevant, and family-safe.
2. Types of Advertising We Allow
We may display the following types of ads on Storyious
- Display Ads: Visual banners in site margins or headers that do not disrupt your reading flow.
- Affiliate Links: These may appear within blog content or author bios, earning us a commission if purchases are made via those links, without increasing user costs.
- Sponsored Content: Occasionally, we may publish content paid for by a brand or third-party sponsor. Such posts will always be clearly marked as “Sponsored” or “Advertisement.”
To learn more about how we ensure user trust through ethical publishing, visit our Content Integrity page.
3. Our Advertising Standards
To protect our readers and uphold our mission of thoughtful, ethical storytelling, Storyious maintains strict ad standards. We do not accept advertisements that
- Promote violence, hate speech, discrimination, or illegal activities
- Include deceptive or harmful claims
- Conflict with our values of positive, educational, and emotionally safe storytelling
- Use misleading design or content
We reserve the right to refuse, restrict, or remove any ad that violates our mission or quality standards.
4. Editorial Independence
Storyious maintains complete independence between editorial content and advertising partnerships.
- Storyious maintains complete independence between editorial content and advertising partnerships.
- No ad or sponsorship influences the stories we accept or publish.
- Our team reviews every submission based on its literary merit, originality, and alignment with our Editorial Process, not commercial bias.
- Sponsored content is clearly labeled and kept separate from editorial content.
5. User Privacy
Some advertising partners may use cookies or browser technologies to serve more relevant ads. We are committed to safeguarding your privacy.
- No personal data is sold to advertisers.
- You can read our full Privacy Policy for details on how your information is collected, stored, and protected.
6. Updates to This Policy
This policy may be updated periodically to reflect changes in our advertising partnerships, technologies, or community values.
- All changes will be posted on this page.
- Continued use of Storyious.com after updates implies your agreement to the revised terms.
7. Contact Us
For questions about advertising opportunities or to inquire about placing sponsored content on Storyious, please visit our Advertise With UsAdvertise With Us page or email us at writewithstoryious@gmail.com.
Advertising on Storyious supports a community of real writers and passionate readers, but never at the expense of trust. Thank you for helping us keep Storyious a safe, sincere, and soulful space for storytelling.