Commercial disclosure
Current position
SpiceHQ carries no advertising and no affiliate links, and earns nothing from anything on it. This page exists before there is anything to disclose, because a disclosure written after the first placement is worth less than one written before.
If that changes
The design decisions have been made already, and they constrain what is possible later.
Any commercial content would be requested from a central HEKNO service rather than implemented here. SpiceHQ holds no product catalogue, no merchant relationships, no affiliate identifiers and no tracking parameters, and it asks only whether a recommendation is appropriate to a given surface. That keeps the relationship at arm’s length by construction rather than by policy.
Anything commercial would be visibly labelled as such. It would never appear as an editorial recommendation, and no evidence grade, substitution recommendation or safety position anywhere on this site is or would be affected by a commercial relationship.
Where commercial content is prohibited
Enforced in code, before any provider is consulted — not left to editorial care.
A request for a placement on any of the following contexts is refused by SpiceHQ itself, before the central service is even asked:
- safety
- health
- adulteration
- contamination
- allergen
- evidence
- sources
- toxicity
- toxic
- pregnancy
- pregnant
- breastfeeding
- veterinary
- medication
- interaction
- regulatory
- caution
- warning
The reason for making this structural is that the failure mode — a product recommendation appearing beside a contamination warning or an allergen note — is the kind of thing that destroys trust irrecoverably, and editorial discipline is not a reliable defence against it.
Nothing depends on it
The site is complete with no commercial content at all.
There are no placeholder slots, no gaps waiting to be filled and no degraded experience when nothing is returned. That is the current state of the site, tested rather than asserted: with the commercial service absent, every page renders exactly as intended.