Funding and commercial disclosure · updated 2 August 2026
How does CatalogVigil stay free?
The complete CSV checker remains free. CatalogVigil can be funded by optional tips, clearly labelled affiliate links on educational pages, a separate commercial self-hosted kit, and—only after approval and privacy review—limited ads outside the checker and its results.
Voluntary support
A tip is optional and does not unlock validation rules, improve a result, or change support priority. If the support button is available, it opens the operator's external Ko-fi page; that provider and its payment processor handle the transaction under their own terms.
Affiliate links
Some educational pages may include a link to Shopify for readers who do not yet have a store. Every such placement is labelled “Affiliate link” and uses the sponsored-link attribute. CatalogVigil may earn a commission from a qualifying referral without changing the visitor's price. Affiliate status never changes validation findings, source summaries, or recommendations.
Advertising policy
Advertising is limited to educational and reference pages—not the homepage, file picker, findings, fixes, or exports. Ads are visually labelled, do not mimic controls, and never receive catalogue rows, file names, SKUs, handles, titles, URLs, or findings.
Google AdSense ad serving is currently inactive. The prepared integration remains fail-closed until account approval, a real ad-unit ID, the required Google-certified consent message, privacy review, and page-specific security-policy review are all confirmed.
For visitors in the EEA, the UK, or Switzerland, Google advertising requires a published Google-certified consent platform integrated with the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework. Consent choices must remain revocable.
Commercial kit
The CatalogVigil Agency Kit is a separate planned downloadable product for agencies that want a self-hosted deployment, source package, tests, and commercial-use licence. Its checkout is currently inactive, and no payment is accepted through this website. The public checker's findings do not promote or withhold results to increase sales.
Questions or conflicts
Report an unclear disclosure, unsuitable placement, or perceived editorial conflict to catalogvigil@gmail.com. Do not attach a private catalogue.