Disclosure & Privacy
How we make money, how affiliate links work, and what we do (and don't do) with your data. Short version: we earn commissions on some tools, we collect nothing about you.
We earn commissions on some tools
StackArbiter participates in affiliate programmes. This means that when you click certain links on this site and subsequently purchase or subscribe to a product, we may receive a commission from the vendor at no additional cost to you. The price you pay is identical whether you arrive through our link or go directly to the vendor's website.
Affiliate links are used on tool review pages, comparison pages, and category pages. They are not used on this page, on our methodology page, or on our about page.
What you should know
Some links on StackArbiter are affiliate links. Clicking them and subscribing earns us a commission. Your price is unchanged.
How we mark them
Pages with affiliate relationships carry a disclosure notice in the footer. The commission relationship is never hidden.
What happens when you click
When you click an affiliate link on StackArbiter, you are redirected to the vendor's website. The vendor's site sets a cookie in your browser that identifies the referral as coming from us. If you subscribe within the cookie window (typically 30–120 days, depending on the vendor), we receive a commission.
You are never redirected through a third-party tracking domain that is invisible to you. The link you click goes directly to the vendor's website. The referral is tracked by the vendor's own systems or a major affiliate network such as Impact, PartnerStack, or ShareASale.
We do not place tracking pixels, retargeting tags, or any third-party scripts on StackArbiter. The only cookie involved is the one set by the vendor's website after you click through — and that is outside our control.
What commissions do and don't influence
This is the part that matters most. Our affiliate relationships are disclosed — but disclosure alone means nothing if the commissions are steering our verdicts. Here is exactly where the line sits.
- ✓Does influence: which tools we prioritise reviewing first. Tools with affiliate programmes are more commercially viable for us to cover.
- ✓Does influence: which tools appear in our "Try free" call-to-action buttons. We naturally link to tools we can earn from where possible.
- ✕Does not influence: any individual axis score in our rubric. The formula is fixed and applied identically to every tool.
- ✕Does not influence: our verdict or ranking position. A tool with a higher commission ranks lower if it scores lower.
- ✕Does not influence: our cons and negative findings. We publish unflattering findings about tools we earn from.
- ✕Does not influence: corrections. If a tool worsens, we update the score down regardless of the affiliate relationship.
If you ever believe a verdict on StackArbiter has been influenced by a commercial relationship, contact us with specifics. We investigate all such reports and respond within 48 hours.
We collect nothing about you
StackArbiter does not collect, store, or process personal data. We have no user accounts, no login system, no newsletter subscription, and no contact form that stores submissions. There is nothing to log in to and no database behind this site.
We do not use Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, or any other behavioural tracking or retargeting technology. We do not run any analytics scripts that identify individual visitors.
What we do collect
Nothing. No name, no email, no IP address, no browsing behaviour. We have no mechanism to collect or store any of it.
Cookies
We do not set cookies. Vendor websites may set their own cookies after you click an affiliate link — that is outside our control and subject to their privacy policies.
Third-party scripts
The only external resource loaded by StackArbiter is Google Fonts (typography). Google Fonts may log the font request — see Google's own privacy policy for details.
Data requests
Since we hold no personal data, there is nothing to request, correct, or delete. If this changes in the future, this page will be updated before any data collection begins.
This site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Cloudflare may process server-level request logs (IP addresses, request timestamps) as part of their infrastructure. This is handled under Cloudflare's privacy policy and is standard for any website hosted on their network. We do not have access to or control over these logs.
Questions about this page
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