The short version
Some links on Digital4All are paid links. If you click one and then buy or subscribe, the seller pays us a commission. It costs you nothing extra — the price you pay is the same either way — and it is one of the ways this site is funded. We tell you on every page that carries such links, and the commission has no say in what we recommend.
Amazon
As an Amazon Associate, Digital4All earns from qualifying purchases. Digital4All is a participant in the Amazon Associates Program, an affiliate advertising programme designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com. Buttons that lead to Amazon say so. Amazon’s attribution cookie lasts 24 hours from your click; Amazon, not us, decides what counts as a qualifying purchase. We are not an Amazon employee, agent or partner beyond this programme, and Amazon does not endorse this site.
Other programmes
We also apply to the affiliate programmes of the software vendors, hardware makers and affiliate networks (for example Awin, Impact, CJ, PartnerStack and FlexOffers) whose products we cover. When a programme approves us, its links become paid links and are marked in the same way. When a programme is paused or ends, links fall back to the vendor’s ordinary website and the content does not change. Many tools we recommend pay us nothing.
How you can tell
- Every page carrying paid links shows a disclosure notice above the content, and this site-wide footer line: “As an Amazon Associate, Digital4All earns from qualifying purchases.”
- Paid links route through our own redirect at
/go/<name>, which adds our affiliate tag and counts the click. Untracked links go straight to the vendor. - Paid links carry
rel="sponsored"so search engines treat them as advertising. - On social media, a post containing a paid link opens with #ad and the Amazon line above, before anything else.
What the redirect records
The /go redirect records which link was clicked, the page it was clicked from, device class, campaign tags and an irreversible hash of your IP address for abuse detection. It does not build a profile of you and sends the merchant nothing beyond the click and our tag. Details are in the privacy policy.
Prices and availability
Prices we quote are the manufacturer’s or vendor’s published list price on the date shown, unless a page says otherwise; the retailer’s price may be higher or lower on the day. Product prices and availability are accurate as of the date indicated and are subject to change. Any price or availability information displayed on Amazon at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of that product.
Editorial independence
Commissions do not buy coverage. Concretely:
- Scores, rankings, “our pick” verdicts and the decision to list a product are made on editorial grounds before any commercial consideration.
- Vendors cannot pay to be listed or reviewed, to improve a score, or to remove criticism.
- If a tool we criticise has an affiliate programme, the criticism stays. If our top pick has no programme, it stays our top pick — with a plain, untracked link.
- We do not offer cashback, rewards or any incentive for using our links, and we do not buy through our own links.
How reviews and listings are produced is in our editorial policy.
Regulatory basis
This disclosure is made in line with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising (16 CFR Part 255), the UK CAP Code requirement that marketing be obviously identifiable as such, the Amazon Associates Program Operating Agreement, and equivalent rules in other jurisdictions.
Questions
If anything here is unclear, ask us via the contact page — we answer disclosure questions directly.