Affiliate Disclosure

Preventive Privacy contains affiliate links. If you click one and buy something, I may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. That commission is how the site pays for the tools, test machines, and time that go into the reviews. This page explains how that works and, more importantly, the line it does not cross.

What counts as an affiliate link

When I link to a product I have a commercial relationship with, that link is tagged as sponsored and disclosed both at the link itself and here. Not every link on the site is an affiliate link. Plenty of products I recommend pay nothing, and I link to them anyway because they are the right answer.

How money is kept out of the verdict

The testing comes first and the verdict is written against the evidence before any affiliate decision is made. A product that pays me nothing can win a recommendation. A product with the most generous payout in its category can still get panned here if it earns it. If removing every affiliate link from this site would change a single verdict, the site would be broken. It will not, because the verdicts are not for sale. You can read exactly how I test on the How I Test page.

Why I disclose this plainly

Disclosure is there so you can weigh it. Knowing a link earns me a commission is exactly the kind of thing you should factor in when you read a recommendation, the same way you would anywhere else. I would rather tell you up front than have you wonder.

If you ever spot a recommendation here that does not match your own experience with a product, tell me. Reader pushback is one of the most useful things I get.