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Affiliate disclosure and earnings disclaimer

Where our money comes from, how every paid link and page is labeled, and how to read the earnings figures you'll find in our guides.

OpinionConduit Editorial TeamLast updated

In plain words

OpinionConduit gets paid when some readers follow our links and sign up. If you click one of those links and then join a survey panel, install an app, register for a program or complete another action, the company behind it may pay us a fee, directly or through an affiliate network such as MaxBounty or Perform[cb]. You don't pay anything for this, and the offer you get is the same as if you'd gone there yourself.

That fee is what keeps the site free and ad-free. It isn't allowed to decide what we write.

What earns us a commission

Depending on the program, we may be paid when a reader who arrived through our link:

  • creates an account on a survey panel, cashback app or rewards program;
  • installs an app, sometimes only once it has been opened or used;
  • completes a first survey, task or purchase;
  • fills in a form on the partner's site.

The amount is usually fixed per action, sometimes a percentage, and it varies by program. The partner tells us that an action happened; it doesn't tell us who you are.

You shouldn't have to hunt for this, so we put it where you'll see it before you click:

  • Under the headline of every guide that contains affiliate links: "This article may contain affiliate links. If you sign up through one, we may earn a commission."
  • Under every button in a partner box: a sentence saying that it's an affiliate link and that we may earn a commission.
  • In the page code, where affiliate links carry rel="sponsored".
  • At the foot of every page, with a link back here.

A guide without that note under the headline contains no affiliate links. This page explains the labels; it doesn't replace them.

Pages labeled "Advertisement"

Besides our guides, some pages on the site may promote one specific offer from a partner. On those pages the promotion is the purpose of the page, and we're paid when readers act on it. Each of them shows the word "Advertisement" above the headline, before any link to the offer, so you can tell it apart from our independent guides at a glance.

Advertisements follow the same rules as the rest of the site. No invented facts. No fake reviews, testimonials or income screenshots. No countdown timers or "limited spots". No promise that you'll earn a particular amount. Every claim about the offer must be one the partner can support and that we've checked against the partner's own published terms.

About the numbers on this site

Money is the subject of most of our guides, so we're careful about how we talk about it. US consumer protection law treats an earnings figure as a claim about what people can expect: the Federal Trade Commission's guidance on endorsements says a quoted result is taken to be typical unless the typical result is stated too, and a vague "results may vary" or "results not typical" line doesn't fix that. So instead of a disclaimer in small print, we follow these rules:

  • No income promises. We never say or suggest that you will earn a specific amount, that you'll make money quickly, or that any of this can replace a job.
  • Ranges, lower end first. When we give a figure, it's a range of typical results, and we say where most people land, which is usually near the bottom.
  • What the figure assumes. We say what the range depends on: the time you put in, whether platforms think you fit their studies or tasks (age, country, household, job), their payout thresholds and fees, and whether rewards come as cash, points or gift cards.
  • Where it comes from, and when. Ranges are based on the platforms' own published reward rates and terms and on user reports we could verify, never on a single account, and each guide shows the date it was last checked.
  • No success stories. We don't publish testimonials or screenshots of someone's earnings, because we can't verify them and they suggest results most readers won't get.

Any guide that gives earnings figures carries a short note like the one below, right next to the numbers.

What a commission can't buy

  • A better conclusion. Every platform is checked the same way, using the method on our about page, whether or not it pays us.
  • A place on the page. We cover platforms and tips that earn us nothing, and we say so when the free option is the better one.
  • Silence about problems. If users report a platform for late or missing payouts and we can verify it, the guide says so, even if that platform is a partner.
  • Coverage. We don't accept money, gift cards or free accounts in exchange for writing about a platform.

Questions

Not sure whether a link is an affiliate link, or think a page isn't labeled clearly enough? Tell us at info@opinionconduit.com. OpinionConduit is operated by CTAWeb Srls, Falciano del Massico, Italy.