These Guidelines are designed to outline our advertising principles and are not an exhaustive list of prohibitions. Ignition Strategy Group (ISG) retains the right, at its sole discretion, to reject, suspend, or remove any advertisement from its platform, regardless of whether a specific basis for removal is listed here. These Guidelines do not constrain ISG’s discretion in any way.

Advertisements that fail to meet the standards set forth in these Guidelines may be subject to removal at ISG’s discretion. This may also result in the client being prohibited from placing further advertisements on ISG’s platform. Clients who repeatedly violate these Guidelines may face restricted access or revocation of their advertising privileges.

Prohibited Creatives and Related Content

Clients cannot use the ISG platform for ads that do or promote any of the following:

• Binary options and synonymous products.
• Cryptocurrencies and related content (including but not limited to initial coin offerings, cryptocurrency exchanges, cryptocurrency wallets, and cryptocurrency trading advice) will be reviewed on a case-by-case-basis.
• Promote online gambling in jurisdictions where online gambling is illegal or otherwise restricted. However, if online gambling is legal in a given jurisdiction and the creative is not targeted at children, the creative may run on publishers who actively allow for this category and will not run on publishers that have blocked the category.
• Contain nudity or overly suggestive content or images
• Ads must not promote the sale or use of adult products or services, except for ads for family planning and contraception. Ads for contraceptives must focus on the contraceptive features of the product, and not on sexual pleasure or sexual enhancement, and must be targeted to people 18 years or older.
• Promote dating, escort services, “mail-order brides,” or similar services.
• Sell or promote illegal drugs, marijuana, marijuana byproducts, drug paraphernalia, or ways to pass a drug test. Cannabis creatives will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis and are subject to removal by ISG in its sole discretion for any reason. ISG generally focuses on the following in its review: creatives for cannabis must only include lifestyle images (meaning no flower, paraphernalia, etc.); can only be served in states (and countries) where cannabis is legal recreationally (i.e.: cannabis is not approved in the UK); CBD creatives in the United States can run nationwide as long as the product contains less than 0.3% THC. Once THC content is higher, it will be handled as cannabis creative. 
• Ads for tobacco or any products containing tobacco, ads for products that form a component part of a tobacco product, as well as products and services that directly facilitate or promote tobacco consumption, ads for products designed to simulate tobacco smoking.
• Content that promotes or incites hatred against, discrimination of, or disparagement of an individual or group on the basis of their race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, age, nationality, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or other characteristic that is associated with systemic discrimination or marginalization, or is a protected class.
• Content that harasses, intimidates, or bullies an individual or group of individuals.
• Content that threatens or advocates for harm to oneself or others.
• Content that seeks to exploit others.
• Promotions containing violent language, gruesome or disgusting imagery, or graphic images or accounts of physical trauma.
• Promotions containing gratuitous portrayals of bodily fluids or waste.
• Promotions containing obscene or profane language.
• Content that promotes cruelty or gratuitous violence towards animals.
• Solicitation of funds or donations by people or organizations who are not politicians, political parties, or tax-exempt charities.
• Buyers must comply with all applicable federal and state laws regarding political advertising, including obligations with respect to ensuring required disclosures regarding the source of political advertisements and maintaining certain archives.
• Promotion of free desktop software, unless the ad includes the name of the specific software being promoted and leads to the authoritative online distribution source for the software. The authoritative source must not have a history or reputation of policy violations.
• Malware; Content that contains, installs, links to, or prompts the download of any malware.
• Auto-redirects; Content that automatically redirects to other sites or apps.
• Fake Errors and Messages; Content that displays fake errors or warnings to induce user action, including, for example, warnings about viruses, missing codecs, and corrupt disks.
• Ads must not contain content that infringes upon or violates the rights of any third party, including copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, or other personal or proprietary rights. Examples include celebrity images and representation as well as using the name of an unaffiliated publisher in such a way that would imply a relationship with the ad or landing page and such unaffiliated publisher.
• Ads must not contain deceptive, false, or misleading content, including deceptive claims, offers, or business practices.
• Ads must not direct people to non-functional landing pages. This includes landing page content that interferes with a person’s ability to navigate away from the page.
• Ads must not contain content leading to external landing pages that provide an unexpected or disruptive experience. This includes misleading ad positioning, such as overly sensationalized headlines, and leading people to landing pages that contain minimal original content and a majority of unrelated or low quality ad content.
• Sites or apps that are under construction, parked domains, or are otherwise not functional.
• Sites that are not viewable in commonly used browsers.
• Sites that have disabled the browser’s back button.
• Ads that do not behave identically when viewed for a compliance audit by ISG or a partner and when placed through the ISG platform, such as different images, different click-through behavior, or different landing page experiences.
• Pharmaceutical ads based on sensitive information (e.g. medical conditions or diagnoses) in a manner that is unfair, deceptive, or does not follow appropriate laws or industry standards. 

Legal & Regulatory Compliance

1. Ads must comply with all applicable laws, rules, or regulations in any relevant jurisdiction. This includes laws, rules, and regulations that relate to the placement of ads through online behavioral advertising, and to the delivery of ads to children.
2. Ads must not include or contain any content that infringes the intellectual property rights of any third party (including rights conferred or otherwise protected by patents, copyrights, trademarks, or trade secrets).

ISG uses commercially reasonable efforts to (i) adhere to the Coalition of Better Ads standards and (ii) prohibit clients on ISG’s platform from using ad experience that violate these standards.