Brand safety and fraud prevention policy

NinaData is fully committed to providing brands with the maximum level of brand safety. 

Specifically, NinaData use leading independently certified content verification tools and proprietary technology to implement pre and post bid solutions, ensuring maximum brand safety levels and reducing fraud and piracy risk.

Brand safety policies

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Pre-bid –

1. DSP audited Inventory –
NinaData maintains a strict set of criteria for excluding unacceptable inventory in partnership with operated DSPs. Any inventory that we detect as falling within these criteria will be added to our DSP exclusion lists. Inventory is human audited by the DSP, or by inventory providers. Audits are conducted regularly to ensure validation of new domains or behavior changes to existing domains.

2. Inventory categorization standards –

NinaData excludes by default environments categorized as toolbar, plug-ins or extensions, incentivised clicks and contextual nudity. In keeping with listed best practices NinaData does not serve upon non-audited inventory sources, where categories cannot be determined.

3. Seller inclusion lists –

NinaData enforces a strict inclusion list of exchanges and publishers. Inclusion lists are scored based upon inventory quality and integrity. Inclusion lists have been curated monthly ongoing human and data led audits.

4. Domain exclusion lists –

Domain exclusion lists are rigorously enforced at NinaData, and again by default are excluded from all campaigns. These continue to be refreshed on a weekly cadence. NinaData accommodates advertiser and / or agency exclusion lists – these are updated weekly. 

5. 3rd party ad verification –

NinaData have close partnerships with MRC accredited internet services such as Google, PubMatic and Pixalate, among others. Furthermore, sophisticated traffic suspected of botnet traffic or viewability interference is also blocked to provide additional pre-bid blocking parameters. Inventory that is unrateable is blocked, it is understood that inventory that is unrateable may be more liable to non-compliance.

6. Semantic / keyword blocking –

NinaData uses advanced keyword technology to block and verify contextual attributes. By default, sensitive attributes are blocked. The combination of keyword and ad verification techniques prevents mismatch, providing a robust understanding of the nature of a page prior to purchase.

7. Log-level integrations –

NinaData has log-level integrations with data providers to facilitate actionable outcomes within DSP targeting. Custom solutions for advertisers and / or agencies can be built seamlessly.

8. Inventory performance index –

NinaData categorizes sellers, publishers and domains based on the following metrics i.e. performance (CPA, CPC, CTR, CVR), consistency, viewability, ad clutter, ad collision etc. Scores are associated to each seller, publisher and domain which is in turn applied to DSP campaign setup. Layering historical campaign performance data provides further brand safety / fraud detection.

9. IP fraud prevention –

NinaData is working with leading fraud prevention 3rd parties in the industry to prevent IP fraud.

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Post-bid –

1. 3rd party ad verification –

Upon bid submission and a winning auction (but before the ad has rendered) the text, images and links of the page are scanned and scored on a level of brand safety. By default, NinaData permit ad rendering to occur only if the content of the page has the maximum level of brand safety and no additional information about the content of the page has any conflict with mandatory pre-bid standards.

2. Daily refinement –

All levels of inventory are vetted on a post-bid nature to improve pre-bid setup. This is a continuous cycle and maintained via data scientists and automated methodology.

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Bespoke –

Client best practices –

NinaData can ingest agency and / or advertiser best practices. Seamlessly applying domain, keyword, IP, geo exclusion lists to complement existing NinaData protocol.

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Takedown Policy –

Should a client want to stop an ad campaign or have any brand safety related queries, NinaData will guarantee activity be paused and queried within 24 hours but will endeavor to do this instantly. Clients should email notice to your account manager or the alias adops@ninadata.io

The contractual consequences of not taking down an ad in accordance with NinaData‘s Takedown policy are subject to the terms of each individual Insertion Order negotiated with each Buyer.

Anti-Piracy Policies –

NinaData employs a range of measures to prevent appearing alongside inappropriate or pirated content across our programmatic media buying. These range from proprietary NinaData solutions to Content Verification (CV) & Anti-Piracy (AP) tools provided through our partnerships with third party verification vendors.

Through these measures, NinaData achieves a brand safety floor across all applicable activity by avoiding content across the eleven sensitive topics in Tier 1 of the IAB Tech Lab Content Taxonomy 3.0:

– Arms & Ammunition
– Crime & Harmful acts to individuals and Society and Human Right Violations
– Death, Injury, or Military Conflict
– Online piracy
– Hate speech & acts of aggression
– Obscenity and Profanity
– Illegal Drugs/Tobacco/eCigarettes/ Vaping/Alcohol
– Spam or Harmful Content
– Terrorism
– Sensitive Social Issues

In addition to this brand safety floor, NinaData works with clients where requested to define a brand suitability profile based on additional categorisation of inventory. This brand suitability profile is then implemented through domain & app inclusion lists, dynamic content filtering & blocking provided by third party verification vendors as well as keyword & semantic targeting or filtering.

NinaData also receives log level data across activity where our IAS monitoring pixel is present which which provides impression level Brand Risk & Piracy analysis. This data is used to supplement decisioning for NinaData’s proprietary pre bid filtering and enhance overall protection.