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Sponsored content disclosure
Every card marked “Sponsored” on ToolGenX promotes something I made and sell myself. No third-party advertiser pays for these slots. This page spells out the details so there are no surprises.
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The short version
The sponsored slots on this site show my own products: the 19 digital toolkits I sell on Gumroad, the five Kindle books in The Solo Operator Series on Amazon, and the printable planners in my Etsy shop, HerRescueKits. When you buy through one of these cards, you buy directly from me as the maker. There is no middleman and no commission changing hands.
Until July 2026 these same slots carried third-party display ads from the Impact affiliate network. I replaced them with my own catalog on 20 July 2026. If third-party ads ever return, this page changes first.
How you can tell what is sponsored
- Every promoted card sits inside a frame with a pink “Sponsored” badge and a link back to this page.
- Links that leave this site for Gumroad, Amazon, or Etsy carry
rel="sponsored nofollow"— the markup search engines use to identify commercial links. They are self-promotion, so I label them conservatively. - The product strip on the homepage is labelled as our own shelf, not editorial picks.
What it costs you: nothing extra
The price on Gumroad, Amazon, or Etsy is the same whether you arrive through a sponsored card or type the store address yourself. The links carry no tracking parameters and nothing is marked up.
Biased? Yes, openly
These are my products, so a sponsored card is obviously not an independent review. Which product appears in which slot is decided by an automatic rotation across the whole catalog, not hand-picked per page. Blog posts and comparisons stay editorial: when I mention a product of mine in an article, I say it is mine in the text.
Tracking
These cards are plain images served from this site. They set no cookies and fire no tracking pixels — consistent with the cookie policy: the only analytics here is cookie-free Plausible. Once you click through to Gumroad, Amazon, or Etsy, their own sites apply their own privacy policies.
Labelling rules I follow
Commercial content is labelled at the point of the link — the badge sits on the card, not just on this page. That follows the U.S. FTC endorsement guidelines and the EU rules on identifying commercial communications, even though what is being promoted here is my own work.
Questions
Email support@toolgenx.com and I will answer.