Advertising / Sponsored Listings Disclosure

1. About This Disclosure

PCB Guide is a local discovery website and business directory for Panama City Beach. We may earn money from paid listings, advertising, sponsored placements, featured listings, affiliate relationships, partnerships, promoted content, or other business relationships.

This Advertising / Sponsored Listings Disclosure explains how those relationships may appear on PCB Guide and how we try to keep advertising, sponsored content, and local information clear for visitors.

2. Paid Listings, Featured Placements, and Sponsored Content

PCB Guide may offer paid business listings, featured placements, sponsorships, advertising packages, promotional opportunities, partner listings, and other paid visibility options.

• Featured businesses
• PCB Guide Partner listings
• Sponsored listings or sponsored sections
• Promoted events, happy hours, live music listings, deals, guides, or local recommendations
• Advertising banners, cards, buttons, newsletter mentions, social media mentions, or other promotional placements
• Discounted, trial, complimentary, trade, or in-kind promotional placements when applicable

Paid placement does not guarantee that a visitor will choose, contact, book, buy from, attend, or have a positive experience with a business, event, venue, attraction, artist, performer, or advertiser.

3. How Paid Placement May Affect Visibility

Paid listings, featured listings, sponsored placements, or partner relationships may affect how and where a business, event, venue, offer, guide, or listing appears on PCB Guide.

• Appearing in a featured section
• Appearing higher in recommended sorting
• Receiving more visual detail, images, links, buttons, or contact options
• Being included in promotional sections, newsletters, social posts, guides, or collections
• Being highlighted with labels such as Featured, Sponsored, Partner, PCB Guide Partner, or similar language
• Receiving more prominent placement than free, community, unclaimed, or unpaid listings

Search, filter, and display order may also be affected by relevance, category, listing tier, availability, freshness, editorial choices, user experience, data quality, or technical factors.

4. Labels and Transparency

We try to use labels, page copy, visual badges, section headings, or other reasonable signals to help visitors understand when a listing or placement may be paid, sponsored, featured, promoted, or part of a business relationship.

• Featured
• Sponsored
• PCB Guide Partner
• Partner Listing
• Promoted
• Advertisement
• Ad
• Affiliate Link
• Paid Placement
• Get Featured or Advertise language near business-facing pages

The exact label may vary depending on the page, placement type, screen size, design, and available space.

5. Affiliate Links and Referral Relationships

PCB Guide may include affiliate links, referral links, booking links, ticket links, partner links, or tracked links. If you click one of these links or make a purchase, booking, reservation, or inquiry through a third-party platform, PCB Guide may earn a commission, referral fee, advertising fee, credit, or other benefit.

Affiliate or referral relationships do not change the price unless the third-party provider says otherwise. They also do not mean PCB Guide is responsible for the third-party product, service, booking, ticket, event, meal, tour, activity, or experience.

Some hotel, rental, and travel booking links on PCB Guide may be affiliate links. If you book through those links, PCB Guide may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. We still aim to keep listings useful, accurate, and independent.

6. Editorial Content, Guides, and Recommendations

PCB Guide may publish local guides, recommendations, lists, roundups, featured collections, social posts, newsletters, or editorial-style content. Some content may include paid partners, advertisers, affiliate links, sponsored mentions, or businesses with a commercial relationship with PCB Guide.

We may also include unpaid businesses, free community listings, public information, or editorial picks when we believe they are useful to visitors.

• Local relevance
• Visitor usefulness
• Business category or location
• Listing tier or paid placement
• Availability of accurate information, photos, links, or details
• Editorial judgment
• Seasonal relevance, current events, or planning usefulness
• Business relationships, sponsorships, or advertising arrangements when applicable

7. No Guarantee or Endorsement

A paid, featured, sponsored, partner, or promoted placement does not mean PCB Guide guarantees, certifies, licenses, insures, supervises, or formally endorses the business, venue, event, artist, performer, activity, product, service, deal, special, or third-party provider.

Visitors should still use their own judgment and verify important details directly with the business, venue, organizer, performer, booking platform, ticketing platform, restaurant, attraction, or third-party provider before making plans, buying tickets, booking, traveling, ordering, attending, or relying on information from PCB Guide.

8. Advertiser Responsibility

Advertisers, businesses, venues, event organizers, artists, performers, partners, and submitters are responsible for the information, offers, claims, images, logos, flyers, prices, menus, schedules, links, and promotional materials they submit to PCB Guide.

• Accurate and current
• Lawful and not misleading
• Authorized for submission and publication
• Compliant with applicable advertising, consumer protection, intellectual property, alcohol, contest, sweepstakes, pricing, and promotional laws
• Not infringing on someone else’s copyrights, trademarks, publicity rights, privacy rights, or other rights

PCB Guide may edit, reject, remove, update, relabel, or decline advertising or sponsored content at our discretion.

9. Social Media, Newsletters, and Off-Site Promotions

PCB Guide may promote businesses, events, deals, happy hours, live music, advertisers, featured listings, guides, or sponsored content through social media, newsletters, emails, videos, graphics, posts, stories, reels, or other marketing channels.

When a post or message is paid, sponsored, affiliate-based, or connected to a material business relationship, PCB Guide may use labels or wording such as sponsored, ad, partner, affiliate, paid, promoted, or similar language when appropriate.

10. Third-Party Links, Bookings, Tickets, and Purchases

PCB Guide may link to third-party websites, booking platforms, ticketing platforms, payment processors, restaurant websites, event pages, business websites, social media pages, maps, affiliate partners, or other outside services.

Third-party websites and services are controlled by their own owners and operators. Their terms, privacy policies, refund rules, cancellation rules, pricing, availability, accessibility, safety practices, and customer service policies apply when you use them.

11. Corrections and Disclosure Questions

If you believe a listing, ad, sponsored placement, affiliate relationship, paid feature, or promotional label is unclear, inaccurate, outdated, or needs correction, contact PCB Guide.

• The page or listing involved
• The business, event, guide, deal, special, happy hour, or live music listing involved
• What you believe is inaccurate or unclear
• Any supporting details, links, or screenshots that may help us review the issue

Contact email: contact@pcbguide.com

12. Changes to This Disclosure

PCB Guide may update this Advertising / Sponsored Listings Disclosure from time to time as our website, advertising options, affiliate relationships, paid listing programs, partnerships, or business model changes.

When we update this page, we may change the effective date above. Your continued use of PCB Guide after an updated disclosure is posted means you acknowledge the updated disclosure.

13. Contact PCB Guide

Questions about advertising disclosures, sponsored listings, affiliate links, paid placements, partner relationships, or corrections can be sent to PCB Guide.