Affiliate Disclosure

1. What an "Affiliate Link" Is

An affiliate link is a tracked URL that pays the publisher a commission — usually a percentage of the sale, or a flat per-signup fee — when a reader makes a purchase after clicking it. The reader pays the same price either way.

Wellness Wire participates in affiliate programs with a small number of health-adjacent merchants: continuous glucose monitors, at-home lab test providers, and selected telehealth platforms that have passed our editorial review.

2. Where You Will See Them

Affiliate links appear primarily in our Reviewed desk — the product and provider comparisons at /reviewed — and occasionally in long-read articles when we link to a service we have tested and covered in Reviewed.

Every affiliate link on the Services is marked inline with an "aff." badge adjacent to the link. A disclosure block appears at the top of any page that contains affiliate links, stating plainly that the page may earn us a commission.

3. The Editorial Firewall

Our editorial team does not know which merchants have affiliate programs when they assign, report, or publish a piece. Commercial deals are negotiated by a separate business-side team after a review has already concluded — meaning a product does not get reviewed because we have an affiliate deal, and a review does not become more favorable if one exists.

If a merchant asks us to change, delay, or retract editorial coverage in exchange for participation in or continuation of an affiliate arrangement, the request is refused and the arrangement is terminated. This has happened exactly once in our history; the piece ran as written.

If an affiliate arrangement ends mid-review or mid-publication cycle, we do not remove the link retroactively; we simply stop earning on it.

4. How We Account for This Revenue

Affiliate revenue is reported, in aggregate, in our annual Transparency Report. We disclose total affiliate revenue, the share of total revenue it represents, and the merchants with whom we had active programs during the reporting period.

We do not disclose per-article revenue for competitive reasons, but our internal review of affiliate performance is run by editorial leadership — not business — to ensure the performance signal does not bleed into editorial decisions.

5. How We Label Links

We label in three places so a reader never has to hunt for the disclosure:

6. Contact

Questions about affiliate links — including a request that we disclose whether a specific link is an affiliate link — can be sent to legal@wellnesswire.com.