No Purchase Necessary

1. No Purchase Required

No purchase or payment is required to submit a nomination, be considered, be evaluated, be selected, or retain recognition status in a Capital Honors editorial recognition program.

Recognition includes the right to truthfully state in text that the recipient received the applicable Recognition. Use of the Company’s official badges, insignia, logos, graphics, or other branded recognition assets is not included with complimentary recognition and requires an applicable license or paid package.

2. Optional Paid Products and Services

Capital Honors and Expert Honors may separately offer optional paid products and services, including enhanced profiles, physical awards, badge licenses, premium creative assets, publicity or distribution services, benefits, advertising, sponsorships, and enhanced placement.

Purchasing or declining any optional product or service does not affect editorial selection, recognition status, or editorial treatment. Declining a purchase is not grounds for revoking an otherwise valid recognition.

3. Program-Specific Details

Eligibility requirements, categories, selection methodology, recognition periods, and complimentary features may vary by recognition program. The applicable published Methodology page controls those program-specific details.

4. Paid Placement and Commercial Participation

Paid profile enhancements, sponsored placement, featured placement, advertising, and other commercial visibility are identified where displayed when the relationship could otherwise be unclear.

Commercial participation does not convert a non-recipient into a recognition recipient, and does not preserve recognition that is later validly revoked for an editorial or legal reason.

5. Regulated Firms and Compensation Disclosure

Because selection can occur with no payment, a recognized firm may have no compensation relationship with Capital Honors at all. Where a recipient does purchase an optional product or service and then uses the recognition in advertising, compensation connected with obtaining or using a recognition can be material under securities and advertising rules.

Capital Honors maintains commercial-relationship records and publishes factual compensation-status language on the Disclosures page for review by the recipient’s compliance or legal personnel. Capital Honors does not determine whether a particular advertisement complies with SEC Rule 206(4)-1, FINRA rules, state securities law, or firm policy.

6. Questions About This Policy

Questions about how selection and commercial products are separated may be sent to Hello@CapitalHonors.com. The Terms of Use govern the contractual relationship between you and the Company; where a term of this policy and the Terms of Use address the same subject, the Terms of Use control.