Affiliate Disclosure

1. The short version

Some links on this site are affiliate links. If you click one and buy something, we may earn a commission. It costs you nothing extra, and it does not change what we recommend or what we say about it.

2. What an affiliate link is

An affiliate link carries a tracking code that tells the seller we sent you. If you then buy, the seller pays us a share. We are paid by the seller, never by you, and the price you see is the price everyone sees.

On this site every affiliate link goes through /api/out/<vendor>, which adds the tracking code and forwards you. The destination is fixed on our side, so a link can never be redirected somewhere else by tampering with the URL.

3. Which companies pay us

We are not currently in any affiliate programme, so no article on this site carries an affiliate link right now. When that changes, the company will be named here and every affected article will carry a notice above its first paragraph.

4. How links get into an article

The rules are deliberately narrow, because the failure mode of affiliate content is an article written backwards from the commission.

• The article comes first. A link is only added to a product we had already decided to mention. We do not write articles to hold links, and we do not add a product because it pays.
• Two links per article, maximum. That is the whole budget, and only the first mention of a company is linked.
• Never inside a heading, a code block, or an existing link. Code samples and instructions stay clean.
• Nothing negative gets a link. If we are criticising a product we do not also try to sell it.
• Commission rates never rank anything. Where two products are compared, the higher-paying one gets no advantage. We do not look up which one pays more before writing.

5. The notice on each article

Any article containing an affiliate link carries a disclosure directly above the article body, before you can reach the link. Articles with no affiliate link carry no notice, because claiming a paid relationship we do not have would be its own kind of dishonesty.

6. Advertising

The site also runs display advertising through Google AdSense. Those ads are chosen by Google, not by us, and their presence is not an endorsement. Advertisers get no say in our articles and no advance sight of them. What the ads store on your device, and how to refuse it, is set out in our Privacy Policy.

7. Sponsored posts, gifts, and reviews

We do not publish sponsored posts, paid reviews, paid guest posts, or paid link placements. If that ever changes, the post will say so in its first paragraph, in plain words, and the label will not be removable by the sponsor.

We do not currently accept free products, review units, or press trips. If we ever do, the article will name what we were given and who gave it to us.

8. Freelance work

The publisher takes freelance engineering work through the Services page. If an article discusses a product made by a current or recent client, the article will say so.

9. Prices, deals, and accuracy

Prices, plans, and promotions change constantly and we cannot keep every article synchronised with every seller. Always confirm the current price and terms on the seller’s own site before you buy. We are not the seller: your purchase, your warranty, and your refund are between you and them.

10. What we can see about your clicks

When you click an affiliate link we add one to a daily tally of clicks for that company from that article. A running total is all it is — no row is written about you. It is not tied to your account, to the anonymous bidcookie, or to your IP address, so we cannot tell which reader clicked, or even how many separate people did. What happens after you land on the seller’s site is governed by that seller’s privacy policy, not ours.

11. Questions

If anything on this page is unclear, or you think a specific article fails these rules, tell us and we will fix it or explain why we think it does not. Nihar Ranjan Das — niharranjandasmu@gmail.com.