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Affiliate Disclosure

Required reading. This is how TrimReview makes money, what affiliate links look like, and why our rankings are not influenced by them.

Plain English summary

TrimReview earns a commission when a reader signs up for a program through some of the links on this site. We do not charge readers anything. The price you pay is unchanged whether or not you use one of our links. Our rankings and scoring are not influenced by partnership status or commission size.

Federal Trade Commission disclosure

In compliance with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's Endorsement Guides (16 CFR Part 255), TrimReview discloses that some links on this site are affiliate links. This means we may receive compensation if you click on a link and make a purchase, sign up for a program, or take another qualifying action. This relationship is disclosed wherever affiliate links appear. Affiliate links on TrimReview use the HTML attribute rel="sponsored noopener".

How this works in practice

  • Some programs we review pay TrimReview a referral fee when a reader signs up through one of our links. We disclose every active partnership.
  • The price you pay is set by the program, not by us. Affiliate compensation never changes what you pay.
  • Our rankings are based on our scoring methodology. They are not adjusted for partnership status, commission size, or any other commercial relationship.
  • We review programs we have no affiliate relationship with. When we link to a program we do not partner with, the link does not earn us anything, and we still review it on the same criteria.

How to identify affiliate links

Every page on TrimReview that includes affiliate links also includes an affiliate disclosure banner near the top of the page. The links themselves are tagged with rel="sponsored noopener" in the HTML, which is the FTC and search engine standard for disclosing paid relationships.

Editorial independence

Our editorial team makes all coverage and ranking decisions independently. The programs we cover do not see our reviews before they are published. The programs we cover cannot pay to change a score, change a ranking, or remove a critical line. If a program asks us to soften a review in exchange for partnership, we say no, and we generally publish that fact in the review.

Questions

Questions about a specific affiliate relationship or our disclosure practices? Write to editorial@trimreview.com.