Commerce policy

Structural firewall

Research, editorial and safety own claims, evidence strength and warnings. Commercial Data may record suppliers, agreements, prices, stock and fulfilment, but cannot write editorial fields. Publication and Witness independently verify both content and disclosure.

Activation evidence

A commercial route remains internal until the current agreement, authorized tracking or registration identifier, legal operator, qualified-practitioner evidence where required, territory, commercial terms, claim restrictions, privacy terms and termination path are recorded and reviewed.

Practitioner authority

A qualification, professional membership and legal scope are different facts. They are checked against current primary registers or institution evidence. A commercial supplier account does not itself prove a practitioner title, regulated status or authorization to make clinical claims.

Link and ranking rules

A commercial destination requires a separately approved disclosure and machine-readable route classification. Supplier preference or stock cannot affect evidence class, strength, safety language or default ranking. Sponsored placement, if ever introduced, must be visibly separated from editorial results.

Shop and dropship boundary

A future Shopify or dropship surface requires a named merchant of record, tax and consumer-rights treatment, product liability, fulfilment and returns ownership, recall handling, adverse-event routing, product traceability, privacy impact assessment and jurisdiction-specific claims review before checkout is enabled.

Current state

Public merchant links lead directly to official sources. Candidate agreements, identifiers and practitioner routes remain internal. Checkout is not published.