Commerce policy
Affiliate disclosure & ranking firewall
How merchant links can fund Homeapotherapy without entering editorial scoring.
Homeapotherapy may earn money when a reader follows an eligible merchant link and buys something. Affiliate relationships do not change our rankings, evidence summaries, safety conclusions, or product verdicts.
Amazon status: Homeapotherapy is not currently using Amazon Associates links. If we enroll, the required Amazon Associate disclosure will appear here before Amazon affiliate links are activated.
Affiliate-enabled links are identified near the link with a clear disclosure such as (paid link) and use the appropriate sponsored-link relationship markup.
The firewall
- Commission rate is not a scoring input.
- A product with no affiliate program can still rank first.
- A high-paying merchant can still receive a negative verdict.
- Merchant-specific URLs are stored outside editorial prose.
- Exact prices are not displayed unless the source and freshness rules allow it.
- Editorial conclusions are written independently of merchant compensation.
What readers should expect
Editorial conclusions are written first. Commerce is attached afterward as a separate destination layer. If an affiliate relationship changes, the product assessment does not change with it.
When an affiliate link is active, the visible paid-link disclosure is rendered by the site rather than relying on an author to remember it in prose. For information about analytics, third-party technologies, and what happens when you follow an outbound merchant link, see our privacy policy.