Affiliate Disclosure

Affiliate marketing is a performance-based arrangement between a publisher (us) and a merchant (the seller). When you click a link on our Site and then make a purchase on the merchant's site, the merchant pays us a small commission. The commission comes out of the merchant's margin, you do not pay more for the product.

A paid link on the Site is an affiliate link issued through a program or network we have joined, such as Amazon Associates or Awin, or a link straight to a brand's own store under that brand's own program. When a new network or program goes live on the Site, this paragraph changes in the same change that ships the first link.

Rates vary by category and by merchant. Nearly every link here is an Amazon link, and Amazon publishes its own fee schedule, so that rate card is public and it is not ours to restate. We do not print a rate beside a product: you should weigh a recommendation on the evidence behind it, not on what it pays us.

JellyReviews is a small operation, not a newsroom with a firewall between two departments. Claiming otherwise would be the easy thing to write here and it would not be true, so instead here is exactly what the commercial relationship can and cannot do:

1. No brand can buy a placement, a score, a ranking position, or a mention. There is no price for any of those, and there never has been.

2. We do not publish sponsored posts. If that ever changes, it will be labeled on the page itself, not buried in this policy.

3. We do join brand affiliate programs, currently through Amazon Associates, Awin, and directly with brands. A higher commission rate does not move a product up a page.

4. We only earn on merchants we have a relationship with, which is a real limitation you should know about: a good product sold somewhere we do not have a link can be missing from a page entirely.

5. No brand sees a page before it is published, and no brand has the ability to have one changed after it is.

Affiliate links on the Site use the HTML attributes rel="nofollow sponsored noopener noreferrer". This tells search engines not to pass ranking credit and tells browsers to open the link safely; rel="sponsored" is a labeling convention for paid links read by search engines and by people who inspect a link, not a signal to any advertising network. Links to sources we quote for evidence but earn nothing from carry rel="nofollow" without the sponsored marker.

Visually, affiliate links appear as orange "Check Price" buttons on product cards, as buy buttons on cards inside articles, and as labeled buttons on affiliate links inside articles. A short commission note sits beside them. Hovering over a link will display its destination URL in your browser's status bar.

When you click an affiliate link, two things happen: (1) you are redirected to the merchant's website, and (2) the merchant or its network may set a tracking cookie on your browser so a subsequent purchase can be attributed to us. Whether a cookie is set, and how long it lasts, depends on the program: typically 24 hours for Amazon, 30 to 90 days for many other programs.

If you click our link, then visit another affiliate site, then purchase, the most recent click usually wins the attribution. If you prefer not to be tracked, you may use your browser's private/incognito mode, block third-party cookies, or navigate to the merchant site directly.

Affiliate commissions are the only revenue. There is no sponsored content, no display advertising, and no membership program. If any of that ever changes, it will be disclosed here and labeled on the page itself, not buried in a policy nobody reads.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requires publishers to disclose material connections between themselves and the products they endorse. We go beyond the minimum legal requirement because we believe transparency builds trust. If you ever see an affiliate link on our Site that is not properly disclosed, report it to support@jellyreviews.com and we will fix the page.