Advertising and Sponsorship Guidance
Advertising and sponsorship are important to us in helping us to provide value for our users. These guidelines are to ensure we do business in keeping with The Life Science Feed values.
Our users and customers rely on us to be trustworthy, independent and to have integrity. Our approach to advertising and sponsorship supports that expectation. We do not allow advertising or sponsorship to influence editorial decisions, and all decisions about what advertising to take and what content to publish are made independently of considerations of the other.
1. Our approach
- We accept advertising for products and services that are of interest to users in their personal as well as their professional lives. We accept advertising and sponsorship from competitors.
- We accept various forms of advertising from organisations to advertise products, events or services.
- Advertisements and sponsorship must be legal, decent and truthful and comply with the relevant laws, regulations and industry codes for the geographic area in which they appear.
- If environmental claims are made then these should be in keeping with the Green Claim code of the UK government.
- We do NOT accept advertising or sponsorship that meets the following criteria:
- From the tobacco industry for tobacco products, vaping products, or products and services from tobacco companies, their wholly owned foundations or owned subsidiaries;
- Advertising breast milk substitutes;
- From companies that produce or fund fossil fuels;
- From gambling or betting companies;
- From the arms industry.
- Advertising and sponsorship are subject to editorial oversight. We reserve the right to accept and reject advertising and sponsorship proposals.
2. Advertisement display
- Our users need to be able to immediately distinguish between advertising and editorial content;
- Sponsored content must be clearly identifiable;
- Advertising and sponsorship should be delivered in context;
- The nature of any commercial relationship must be transparent to our users;
- Surreptitious or subliminal advertising is not allowed;
- Online advertising or sponsorship must not impede users’ access to editorial content.
This policy is maintained by TheLifeScienceFeed, a publication of Grá & Mawi Media Co. • For queries: info@thelifesciencefeed.com • Last updated: December 2025