Ownership & Funding
Readers are entitled to know who pays for what they read. This page says who owns FAQ Answers, where the money comes from, and what keeps the money away from the editing. Last updated: August 2026.
Who owns FAQ Answers
The site is published by a private company owned by its founding editorial team. There is no parent group, no holding company sitting above it, no outside shareholder, and no investor with board rights or an opinion on coverage. The people who own the company are the people who edit the site, which is unusual enough to be worth stating in plain words.
We do not print the operating company’s registration details on this page, because they get copied into aggregators and directories we cannot go back and correct. We will give the registered name, the jurisdiction of registration, and the registered address to any reader, regulator, platform, or advertiser who asks, by email and without conditions attached. Write to support@faq-ans.com and say what you need them for.
No government, state body, or state-linked organisation funds this site or holds any interest in it. We have no affiliation with any political party, campaign, candidate, or political action committee, and we take no money from any of them, advertising included. That last part costs us revenue during election periods, and the rule stays where it is.
Where the money comes from
Advertising pays for effectively all of it. Display placements sold programmatically and directly, plus occasional newsletter sponsorship and clearly labelled sponsored articles, cover the reporting, the editing, the hosting, and the tools. The site is free, there is no paywall, and no story goes behind one.
It would sound better to describe advertising as the primary stream and imply there is a long tail of other income behind it. There is not much of one. Everything else that arrives is small enough to name individually, which is what the next two sections do.
Affiliate links, licensing and republication
We use affiliate links rarely and never inside an answer. If a story about a recall or a price change carries a link that pays us, it is marked as an affiliate link at the point of the link, and the product was not picked because of the commission. No writer’s pay is tied to affiliate performance, and no editor sees affiliate revenue broken down by story when deciding what to commission. Our disclaimer explains what those links do and do not mean.
Other publications sometimes ask to republish or license a piece. We charge for commercial use and we do not allow the licensee to change the answer. Anyone republishing our work has to carry any correction we add later, which is a condition in our terms of service rather than a request.
Grants, donations and reader support
We accept none of these at the moment. There is no membership scheme, no donation button, and no foundation money in the site.
If that changes, the terms come before the cheque. We would publish the funder’s name, the amount, the period it covers, and anything the funder asked for, whatever the size of the contribution, with no minimum threshold below which we stay quiet. We would not take money conditioned on covering a subject, avoiding one, or showing anybody a story early. A funder who wants to read a piece before publication is not a funder. That is an editor, and we already have those.
How the money is kept away from the work
Selling and editing are separated by task rather than by floor plan, because at our size a floor plan would be a fiction. Nobody who negotiates a campaign commissions, edits, or approves a story. Advertisers get no preview, no veto, and no warning that we are working on something about them. When a client appears in coverage, the commercial relationship is disclosed in the piece itself.
Campaigns have been cancelled over coverage before. The coverage stayed up. We plan the finances on the assumption that it will happen again, which is the practical reason we keep costs low and avoid depending on any single large advertiser. The full commercial rules, including the ad categories we refuse outright, are on the advertise with us page.
Conflicts of interest
The owners of this company run no other trading business in the sectors we cover. There is no dealership, no games studio, no travel agency, no investment vehicle, and no consultancy taking money from the industries our writers report on. If that ever changes we will say so on this page before we publish anything that touches it, and the affected coverage will move to an editor with no connection to it.
Staff and contributors declare shareholdings, paid outside work, and family interests that touch their beat, and step away where the overlap is real. Gifts, paid trips, and hospitality are declined, press trips included, which is why we sometimes cover a launch from a distance rather than from the room. How that plays out in the reporting is set out in our editorial standards, and the thinking behind the whole arrangement is in about us.
Keeping this page current
This is the first page we update if ownership, control, or the revenue mix changes, and we do it within days rather than at the next redesign. A transparency page that lags reality is worse than no page at all, because it turns an honest gap into a false statement.
If something here is unclear or looks out of date, ask. support@faq-ans.com reaches the editors directly, and questions about ownership go to the front of the queue for the obvious reason that we wrote a whole page inviting them.
