[Kye]

Are you 100% sure you're "not affiliated with WP Engine in any way, financially or otherwise"? Silver Lake has its hands in a lot of companies. Odds are someone you work with in the WordPress world is connected, or one of the companies you work with.

That's the problem with a vague checkbox like that where the guidance is "talk to your lawyer." What happens when he decides he has a problem with you and uses your clicking that checkbox against you? Are you sure you can fend that off from every angle someone with his resources can attack? Can the lawyer you can afford?