Ownership and Funding Transparency
Consumer Rescue is owned and operated by consumer advocate and journalist Michelle Couch-Friedman.
The site is primarily self-funded, with additional support from display advertising, reader donations, volunteer editors, and Michelle’s freelance journalism projects.
Everything on the Consumer Rescue site is free for our readers — including our direct consumer mediation service.
We are committed to maintaining full editorial independence in all published content. No advertiser, sponsor, or affiliate partner has any influence over our investigations, case selections, or outcomes.
Advertising
The display ads you see on the site are served through the Mediavine Ad Network. (Learn about internet cookies and how they are used here.) These ads are designed to be relevant to our audience’s interests and as unobtrusive as possible. Each ad is clearly marked as an advertisement.
Please only click on an ad if you’re genuinely interested in the product or service being promoted.
While we work to personalize ads based on reader interests, occasionally a vendor may bypass our filters and display an ad that we — or our readers — find objectionable. If you spot one, please email publisher Michelle Couch-Friedman so we can review and consider removing it.
If you represent a company interested in advertising on the Consumer Rescue site or newsletter, please contact Michelle for more information.
Affiliate Relationships
From time to time, we may link to products or services from affiliate companies. If you click on one of these links and make a purchase, we may earn a small commission — at no extra cost to you.
We carefully select affiliate products based on personal experience or confidence in their quality. We will never promote anything that doesn’t align with our mission or values.
These affiliate links are always disclosed on the page where they appear.
Whether or not a company is an affiliate or advertiser has no influence whatsoever on our reporting, case evaluations, or consumer advocacy.
Privacy
You can read our Privacy Policy for more details about how we handle user data.
