Affiliate disclosure

This page is published by Arb Digital, a US-registered digital marketing agency. It explains how affiliate links work on arbsbuy.com and is written to satisfy the US Federal Trade Commission's endorsement guidelines (16 CFR Part 255), which require any material connection between a publisher and a product to be disclosed clearly and up front.

What an affiliate link is

An affiliate link is an outbound link that tells the destination site we sent you. If you then sign up or buy, that site may pay us a commission. The price you pay is exactly the same — the commission comes out of the vendor's marketing budget, not out of your pocket, and you are never charged more for arriving through us.

Where these links appear

Affiliate links appear in our recommended tools section and may appear in blog posts and guides where we mention a product we use. Wherever one appears, a plain-English disclosure notice sits above it on the same page, before you can click. We do not hide disclosures in the footer or behind a "read more" link.

Technically, every affiliate link on this site is marked rel="sponsored nofollow" and opens in a new tab. That is a Google requirement for paid links, and it also means search engines are told plainly that the link is commercial.

What the commission does not buy

• It does not buy a listing. We list a tool because we have used it on real client work, not because it has a programme. Plenty of things we recommend pay us nothing at all, and we still recommend them.
• It does not buy a position. Ordering and ranking are our editorial judgement. They are not for sale, and there is no such thing as a paid placement here.
• It does not buy silence. Every write-up states who the product is wrong for. If a tool we recommend gets worse, we remove it rather than leave the link earning quietly.
• It does not affect our client work. When we advise a client on their stack, we recommend what fits their situation. If that is a product we earn nothing from, that is what we say.

How to avoid the links entirely

If you would rather we did not earn anything from your purchase, that is completely fine and it changes nothing about what you get here. Note the product name, open a new tab, and go to the vendor's site directly. Everything on our pages — the write-ups, the buying checklists, the warnings — is free to read either way.

Accuracy, pricing and your own judgement

Pricing, plan limits and features belong to the vendor and change without notice, often faster than we can update a page. Always confirm the current details on the vendor's own site before you buy. Our write-ups are our opinion based on our own use, offered as general information — they are not professional, legal or financial advice for your specific circumstances, and the buying decision remains yours.

We are not the seller. Any purchase you make is a contract between you and that vendor, and their terms, refund policy and support are theirs to honour, not ours.

Advertising

Separately from affiliate links, some pages on this site carry third-party display advertising. Those adverts are served by an ad network and are not endorsements — we do not choose which advertisers appear, and an advert appearing next to our writing says nothing about what we think of it.

Questions

If anything here is unclear, or you think a disclosure is missing from a page, please tell us and we will fix it. See also our privacy policy, terms and general disclaimer.