Affiliate disclosure

The short version. Frugalery earns money when you buy something at a store after clicking one of our links. The store pays us a commission. It costs you nothing extra — your price is identical to what it would have been had you gone straight to the store — and it does not change which offers we list or the order they appear in.

Why you are seeing this

United States law requires anyone paid to promote a product to say so clearly, in a place you will actually see it. That is the Federal Trade Commission’s “clear and conspicuous” standard, set out in its Endorsement Guides and its guidance on online disclosures. A line buried in a terms page does not meet it, so a short version of this disclosure sits at the top of every page on this site and again above every list of offers.

How the money works

Frugalery takes part in affiliate programmes run through advertising networks. Stores join those networks and offer a commission on sales referred by a publisher like us.

When you select an offer here you are sent to the store through a tracking link, and the network records that the visit came from us. If you buy within the window that store allows, the network credits us with a percentage of the order or a fixed fee, and the store pays it. Typical rates are a few percent of the order value.

Some links here earn us nothing — a store may have no affiliate programme, or may have ended ours. Those offers stay on the site anyway if they are good.

What this does and does not affect

Does not affect	Does affect
The price you pay. It is the same either way. Your rights with the store — returns, warranty, delivery and disputes are between you and them. Whether an offer gets listed. Offers with no commission are listed too. What we say about an offer. If a code has a catch we write down the catch.	Whether this site can exist. Commission is its only income. Which stores we cover in depth — there are more stores than we can list, and we start with the ones we can be paid for.

We would rather set that second column out than pretend to a purity no commercial coupon site has.

Link marking

Every outbound commercial link carries rel="nofollow sponsored", the machine-readable way of declaring a paid relationship to search engines, and opens in a new tab so you do not lose the offer terms. Every code button tells you before you press it that it will open the store.

Payment for placement

We do not accept payment to place a store higher in a list, to write a positive description, or to remove a negative one, and we do not run sponsored posts. If that ever changes, anything paid for will be labelled as advertising on the page it appears on, not only here.

Questions

If you want to know whether a particular link earns us anything, ask through the contact page and we will tell you.