How Apprise makes money

Some links that take you to an online shop may be automatically converted into affiliate links by a service called Skimlinks. If you click one and then buy something, the retailer pays us a small commission. You pay exactly the same price either way — the commission comes out of the retailer's margin, not your pocket.

Which links are affected: only outbound links to retailers, and only ones the affiliate network already has a relationship with. Links between Apprise pages, links to news sources and citations, and links used as evidence in a story are never converted.

No commercial arrangement — affiliate, sponsorship, or anything else — influences what we cover, how we cover it, which stories get a briefing, what the Truth-o-meter says, or where a story sits in your feed. Nobody selling anything sees a story before it publishes. We do not accept payment to include, exclude, or soften coverage, and we would report on a company whose affiliate programme we are in exactly as we would report on any other.

The practical safeguard is that affiliate rewriting is applied mechanically to outbound retail links after a story is written; there is no step at which a writer or editor chooses a link because it pays. If that ever changes — for example if we ran a paid review or a sponsored series — it would be labelled on the item itself, not only here.

• No display advertising anywhere in the product, on any tier.
• No sponsored or "native" stories in the news feed.
• No paid placement in briefings, the Truth-o-meter, or search results.
• No selling or sharing of personal information — see the privacy policy.
• No third-party ad tracking or advertising identifiers.