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Affiliate Disclosure

Last updated: July 2026

We believe in being straight with you, so here's exactly how StackChoice makes money.

The short version

StackChoice is reader-supported. Many of the links on this site are affiliate links. If you click one and sign up for or buy a product, we may earn a commission — at no extra cost to you. You pay the same price you would have anyway; the company simply shares a portion of its revenue with us for the referral.

What this does — and doesn't — change

Our promise

  • We only recommend tools we genuinely believe are worth your time and money.
  • Our rankings are based on real value, ease of use, and ROI — never on commission size.
  • We name the real trade-offs and downsides of every tool.
  • You never pay more for using our links.

What we won't do

  • Rank a worse tool higher because it pays us more.
  • Hide a tool's flaws to protect a commission.
  • Recommend something we wouldn't use ourselves.
  • Let any brand pay for a review or edit our opinion.

Why we use affiliate links at all

Running this site — testing tools, writing honest reviews, keeping everything free to read — costs time and money. Affiliate commissions let us do that without putting our content behind a paywall or plastering the site with ads. When you buy through our links, you're directly supporting independent, honest reviews. Thank you — genuinely.

The FTC bit

In line with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's guidelines (16 CFR Part 255) on endorsements and testimonials, we disclose that StackChoice has affiliate and/or advertising relationships with some of the companies whose products we review, including — but not limited to — the marketing, software, hosting, and security tools featured across this site. Where a link earns us a commission, it is marked with the appropriate rel="sponsored" attribute.

Questions?

If anything here is unclear, or you want to know whether a specific link is an affiliate link, just ask — we're happy to tell you. Reach us via the contact details on our privacy page.

Bottom line: our loyalty is to you, the reader. A commission never buys a better review. If a tool is mediocre, we'll say so — because a site you can't trust is worth nothing to anyone.