Disclosures

The short version

Coastline Health Review is free to read and carries no display advertising. We are funded by third parties whose products and services appear on this site. In practice that means two things.

Featured partnerships. Physician-led practices pay to appear in our diagnostics finder. Currently that is one clinic: The Breen Center for Optimal Health in Irvine, CA.

Affiliate and third-party relationships. Where we point readers toward a product or service — diagnostics, supplements, devices, testing services, programs, or anything else we think is worth their time — we may earn a commission or a fee if you act on it.

When a reader uses our diagnostics finder and asks to be matched, we pass that request to the featured partner serving their area, and we are paid for it. That is currently the largest share of what funds this publication.

Where a specific link or recommendation carries a commission, we say so at the point where you would act on it — not only here on a page you would have to go looking for.

Nothing is sold through this site itself. We have no products of our own and no paid subscription, and we do not accept display advertising.

What the money buys

• Placement in the finder. Where a reader’s ZIP code falls in an area our partner serves, the partner is the clinic we show.
• The match request. When a reader fills in the request form, their name, email, phone number and stated interest go to the partner so they can follow up.
• A named, badged presence. Anywhere the partner appears on this site, it appears with the badge above and a disclosure like this one.

What the money does not buy

• Editorial control. The featured partner does not commission articles, suggest topics, review drafts, or see anything before publication.
• Our conclusions. Where the evidence for a diagnostic is weak or contested, we say so — including for diagnostics our partner offers, and including for anything we earn a commission on.
• Silence. A commercial relationship never buys the absence of a disclosure. If we are paid in connection with something you read here, that fact appears next to it.
• The appearance of independent recommendation. We are not running a comparison and calling the winner. There is one featured partner in Southern California, it pays to be there, and this page exists so that is never ambiguous.

Why it works this way

A publication about diagnostics has essentially three funding options: charge readers, sell display advertising, or take money from someone with a commercial interest in the subject. Each has a failure mode. Ours is the third, and its failure mode is the obvious one — that coverage bends toward whoever is paying.

We do not think the answer to that is pretending the money is not there. It is to name it, keep it somewhere you can check, and make the specific promises we can actually keep rather than broad ones we cannot.

The safeguards against that are the ones described on our editorial standards page, plus the structural one: only one clinic is featured, it is disclosed on every surface where it appears, and this page is linked from the footer of every page on the site. A reader who wants to discount everything we say about that clinic has everything they need to do so.

What happens to your information

If you submit a match request, the details you enter go to the featured partner serving your area so that they can contact you. If you subscribe to the newsletter, we use your email address to send the newsletter.

We do not sell personal information. Full detail on what is collected, why, how long it is kept, and the rights California residents have is in our privacy policy, and you can opt out of the sharing of personal information for cross-context behavioural advertising on our Your Privacy Choices page.

Questions

If anything on this page is unclear, or you think we have fallen short of it, write to get in touch.