Disclosure Policy
Updated July 3, 2026
Current status, stated plainly: as of July 3, 2026, CommonKeel has no active affiliate, referral, sponsorship, advertising, or other paid relationship with any company mentioned anywhere on this site. No vendor has paid us, given us free products or services, or been promised anything. Links to vendor sites are plain links.
Will that change?
Probably, and we’d rather tell you in advance. This site’s planned business model includes affiliate or referral relationships with software vendors and lead arrangements with service providers. Several vendors we cover operate public affiliate programs today; we have joined none of them as of the date above.
What happens when a paid relationship begins
- This page updates first, naming the relationship and its type (affiliate, referral, lead fee, sponsorship).
- Every affected page gets an on-page disclosure, placed above the fold of the first monetized element — not buried in a footer.
- Monetized links get labeled attributes (rel="sponsored") so the relationship is visible even to machines.
- Sponsored placements are labeled “Sponsored” and never mixed silently into editorial rankings.
What never changes
- Rankings are never affected by compensation. Comparison scores come from a published weighted rubric applied to published facts; commercial arrangements are tracked separately from editorial scoring, and no payment can move a score, a rank, or a recommendation.
- Prices and capabilities stay sourced. A commission doesn’t change what a vendor’s pricing page says, and our pages report only what sources support, per our editorial standards.
- Free stays free. The templates and calculator remain ungated regardless of monetization elsewhere.
Things we won’t do
- No undisclosed paid placements, ever.
- No “reviews” of products we haven’t used — documentation-based pages are labeled as such.
- No insurance or financial-product brokering: we’re not licensed, and we say so instead of pretending. Educational routing only.
Questions about any relationship, or see something that looks undisclosed? Contact us — that report gets priority handling.