Privacy Policy

Privacy & Minors Addendum

This addendum extends our Privacy Policy above and applies to every page Fame Ranker publishes, including profiles inherited from Net Worth Envy's registry.

Fame Ranker profiles public figures using public information. That mandate has a hard edge, and this section documents where it sits.

We don't publish information that locates a person

Fame Ranker does not publish home addresses, property locations, or any data — coordinates, parcel numbers, cross-streets, aerial imagery, neighborhood-plus-block detail — that could be used to physically locate a named individual.

This holds even when the underlying record is public. Property tax rolls, deed transfers, and assessor databases are, in most U.S. counties, open records. We use some of them: a property acquisition tells you something true about a person's net worth trajectory, and that's within our remit. The parcel's address does not, and publishing it is not.

The distinction we draw is between valuation and location:

• A dollar figure derived from a property transaction — in scope.
• The transaction's street address, cross-referenced or not with other sources — out of scope.
• Aggregated or bucketed geography ("owns property in three states") — permitted, because it doesn't resolve to a place someone could stand.
• Anything a reader could paste into a map — not permitted, however it was sourced.

If a figure on Fame Ranker requires citing a specific property to justify itself, we redact the identifying detail from the citation before publication. The methodology note stays; the pin doesn't.

We don't estimate the finances of minors

Fame Ranker does not publish net worth figures, valuations, earnings estimates, or any derived financial metric about a named individual who is under 18.

This is not a disclaimer we attach and then work around. It's a hold on the underlying research: we do not model, draft, or hold in reserve a financial estimate for a minor pending their birthday. If a subject's public profile changes materially once they turn 18 — a settled trust, a public earnings disclosure, an emancipated income — the estimate is built after that date, from that date's information, not backfilled from years we didn't have standing to cover.

Where a minor is factually relevant to an adult subject's profile (a parent's dependent, a family's household size), we may state the relationship. We do not attach a number to the minor.

"It's derivable" is not a defense we accept

Both policies above apply regardless of whether the excluded information is technically obtainable from public records, third-party aggregators, or inference from data we do hold. A number being reconstructable is not the same as it being ours to publish. Most of this industry's category — celebrity and executive net worth — treats "someone could figure it out anyway" as license. We treat it as the wrong question. The question is whether Fame Ranker puts the figure or the address in front of a reader in one click, and for these two categories, the answer is no, independent of how the information was assembled or where else it might already circulate.

Net Worth Envy and the Paper Trail Grade

As of today, Net Worth Envy's registry mission and its Paper Trail Grade methodology — the rating that scores how well a net worth figure is sourced — are consolidated into Fame Ranker rather than maintained as a separate site. Paper Trail Grade now applies as Fame Ranker's standard sourcing-rigor rating across all financial profiles. This addendum's restrictions apply identically to legacy Net Worth Envy content republished under Fame Ranker; consolidation changes the URL, not the policy.

Flagging a concern

If you believe a Fame Ranker page violates either policy in this addendum — a location that resolves too precisely, a financial figure attributed to someone under 18 — use the contact method at the top of this page. We review and correct these reports outside our standard editorial queue.