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.
Where You Will See Them
Where affiliate links appear, they show up in articles when we link to a product or service we have covered.
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.
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.
If an affiliate arrangement ends mid-review or mid-publication cycle, we do not remove the link retroactively; we simply stop earning on it.
How We Account for This Revenue
We do not disclose per-article revenue for competitive reasons, but our internal review of affiliate performance is kept separate from editorial decisions so the performance signal does not bleed into coverage.
How We Label Links
We label in three places so a reader never has to hunt for the disclosure:
Inline
Every affiliate link carries a small "aff." marker immediately after the link text.
Top of Page
Any page that contains at least one affiliate link displays a plain-language disclosure block above the article body stating that the page contains affiliate links and that Wellness Wire may earn a commission on sales.
This Policy
The document you are reading — linked from the footer of every page on the Services.
Contact
Questions about affiliate links — including a request that we disclose whether a specific link is an affiliate link — can be sent to [email protected].
Contact of record
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