| NMC guidelines | Facts only: doctors with qualifications and registration number, facilities, services, charges. No success rates, patient counts, before-and-after, “best”, fear or inducing offers; agency fees not linked to individual patients. | NMC public notice R-13014/01/2024-Ethics, 6 October 2026, paras 3.2, 4.4, 8.1 and 8.3 |
| ART Act 2021 | No ad for sex-selective ART by the clinic or its agent, on any medium including the internet: 5 to 10 years in prison, or a fine. No intermediaries to find gamete donors. | ART (Regulation) Act 2021, sections 32 and 33(1)(g) |
| PCPNDT Act 1994 | No ad of any kind, online included, about finding out the sex of a baby before or after conception. | PCPNDT Act 1994, section 22, restated in a MoHFW public notice |
| ASCI | Has upheld complaints against IVF ads claiming “higher success rate”, “most successful” and “100% money back”. | ASCI complaint decisions, 2016 to 2020 |
| Google Ads | Infertility treatment is a sensitive category: no remarketing lists, Customer Match or lookalikes. Fertility ads are not allowed at all in the UAE and other listed countries. | Google Ads policy: health in personalized advertising; birth control, fertility and testing |
| Meta | Ads can’t assert or imply a person’s medical condition, so a line like “Struggling to conceive?” fails. | Meta Advertising Standards: personal attributes |