Affiliate disclosure
How this site makes money, in plain English, including what that does and does not influence.
The Amazon Associates statement
Splash & Skimmer is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
Our Amazon Associates tracking tag is fafsplashandskimmer-20. It is appended to product links so Amazon can attribute a purchase to us.
How the links work
Every product link on this site routes through our own /go/ path before reaching the retailer. That exists so we can change where a product points without rewriting an article, and so we can measure which recommendations readers find useful. It adds no cost, no tracking beyond standard analytics, and no delay you would notice.
Every earning link carries rel="sponsored nofollow noopener", which is the markup search engines ask publishers to use for paid links, and every page that carries one shows a disclosure line above the first link rather than only on this page.
Which retailers we currently earn from
As of now: Amazon only.
- Amazon — Amazon category rate
We are a new publication and we have not joined any other affiliate network. Where we mention a brand’s own store or a specialist retailer, that link is a plain reference link and we earn nothing from it. We will update this page if that changes, and we will not add a tracked link for a program we have not actually joined.
What commission does not influence
Ranking order. Picks are ordered by our reading of published specifications and computed running costs, per our methodology. If a cheaper product is the better answer, it goes first, and it earns us less.
Whether we recommend against something. Every roundup names at least one thing to skip and every pick states who it is wrong for. That is the practical test of this claim, and it is why we do it.
Whether a page exists at all. Several pages here argue against buying — are backyard pools worth it talks people out of the purchase as often as into it, and our robotic cleaner page recommends a cheaper alternative for most readers.
About the prices you see
Prices on this site come from a live data feed and are stamped with the date they were checked. Where no live price is available the button says “check price” rather than showing you a number that may be out of date. No price is ever written into an article by hand, which is a deliberate design decision: a price typed into prose goes stale and becomes a false claim.
Prices and availability at the retailer can change at any time, and the price you see at checkout is the one that applies.
What we do not accept
- Free or discounted products in exchange for coverage
- Payment for a placement, a ranking position or a mention
- Manufacturer-supplied copy presented as our own
- Any arrangement that would prevent us from publishing a negative view
Why we are telling you this
Because the Federal Trade Commission requires that material connections between a publisher and a seller be disclosed clearly, and because a reader deserves to know how the thing they are reading is paid for. Our editorial policy covers the wider standards, and the methodology page shows the work behind every recommendation.
Questions about any of this go to info@splashandskimmer.com.