Hentai carries no affiliate links, no advertising, no sponsored articles and no paid placements. There is nothing on this site that pays us when you click it. Most sites in this subject area monetise heavily, so the statement is worth making plainly instead of leaving readers to guess.
What is not here
No outbound link on this site carries a tracking identifier, a referral code or a partner tag. Nobody pays us per click, per signup or per subscription, and no platform has a commercial relationship with the project of any kind.
There are no display advertisements, no native advertising, no sponsored sections and no articles written or paid for by a third party. We do not sell links inside existing pages and we do not accept articles submitted with a link attached, both of which are offered to sites like this one on a weekly basis. We have declined every such approach so far and expect to keep declining them.
There is also no paywall, no subscription, no membership tier and no donation button. The site asks nothing of you, financially or otherwise, and it does not need an account to be read.
How the site is paid for
Costs are covered privately by the people who run it. For a static text site those costs are small: domain registration, hosting and a content delivery layer, plus occasional payments for access to paywalled academic sources and for translation work on Japanese-language documents. There is no revenue side to the ledger.
That arrangement is what makes the reference material easy to keep straight. Nothing on this site has to convert, so no page has a reason to shade a legal description, soften a risk or steer a reader towards a platform. The editorial policy describes the process the writing follows, and the absence of a commercial layer is the simplest guarantee behind it.
What the outbound links actually are
Every external link on this site points at a source: statute text on the Japanese government translation portal, opinions on the Supreme Court website, United States Code through Cornell, Department of Justice guidance, academic papers, and the documentation pages of the browsers and services named in our privacy policy. They exist so a reader can check a claim without taking our word for it.
None of them earns anything, and none carries a parameter that would let anyone credit a click to us. They open in a new tab and are marked so that search engines pass no ranking weight through them, which is the standard treatment for citations to third parties.
If this ever changes
Should the project take on commercial links at some future point, three things happen before the first one goes live. This page gets rewritten to describe the arrangement in specific terms, including who pays and on what basis. Every affected link gets labelled where a reader will see the label, not in a footnote. And the editorial policy gets an explicit separation clause, so the commercial side can never reach the reference material.
The revision date at the top of this page is the marker to watch. As long as it says what it says today, the position described here is the position in force.
Why this page exists at all
Disclosure rules require a material connection between a publisher and a seller to be stated clearly, which in the United States means the Federal Trade Commission's endorsement guides at 16 CFR Part 255, and in the European Union means Directive 2005/29/EC on unfair commercial practices. Those rules have nothing to bite on here, since there is no connection to disclose.
The page stays anyway, because a reader has no way to distinguish a site with no commercial interests from a site that simply hides them. Stating the position, dating it and committing to update it is the difference. Who runs the project is on the about page, the spending risks in the surrounding game industry are covered on our responsible play page, and anything unclear can go to our contact page.