Ads on Inventtive and Your Choices

Sponsored posts look like regular posts, with the advertiser's name, a title, a short description, an image or video and a link, and are always labelled Sponsored or Ad. In the home feed, one appears after every eight posts. The newest ads come first, and each ad appears at most once as you scroll.

Every sponsored post is reviewed before it goes live, and again whenever the advertiser edits it. Ads must follow our Acceptable Use Policy: honest claims, a landing page that matches the ad, and no prohibited products.

Not because of anything about you. We don't use your profile, the communities you join, your votes, comments, follows, messages, searches or location to choose sponsored posts, and advertisers can't target you by any of them. Signed in or not, everyone sees the same sponsored posts in the same order. You see a particular ad simply because it's currently running.

Advertisers get totals for their own ads, and nothing that identifies you:

• •How many times their ad was seen (impressions) and clicked, per day
• •The click-through rate (clicks ÷ impressions)
• •What they spent

They never see who viewed or clicked an ad. When you click, you go to the advertiser's own website, and their privacy policy applies from then on.

When Google ads appear in the sidebar, Google and its partners may use cookies or similar technologies to show ads based on your visits to Inventtive and other websites, limit how often you see the same ad, and measure results. Google decides which ads appear; we don't share your Inventtive account details, posts or messages with Google for advertising.

Learn more in how Google uses information from sites that use its services and our Cookie Policy.

• •We don't sell your personal information
• •We don't let advertisers target sponsored posts at individuals or groups of users
• •We don't share your messages, private community content or account details with advertisers
• •We don't knowingly show targeted ads to children

Seen an ad that's misleading, offensive or breaks our rules? Contact us with the advertiser's name and a short description. We review every report and can pause or remove sponsored posts that break our rules. For Google ads, you can also use the ⓘ or ✕ in the corner of the ad to tell Google.

Want to reach makers and early adopters? Sponsored posts are billed weekly and can be paused, edited or cancelled at any time. Learn more about advertising.

For questions about ads or your privacy choices: