Affiliate disclosure

The rules

• A relationship never changes a fact. Minimums, processing times, verification requirements, evidence classes, sample sizes and operational notices are produced by code that cannot read the affiliate registry at all. There is no path by which a commercial arrangement reaches a published figure, including by accident.
• Unfavourable facts are never suppressed. An operational notice, a long observed timing, or a restrictive published rule is published identically whether or not there is a relationship.
• Nothing is ranked by commission. There is no ranking on this site at all — not by payout, not by rate, not by anything. Operators are listed alphabetically.
• No badge is tied to money. There is no “trusted”, “recommended” or “verified partner” mark here, and there will not be one.
• Non-affiliate operators are covered identically. Coverage depth reflects what we could read from an operator’s documentation, never whether they pay us.
• Disclosure sits with the link. A monetised link is disclosed where it appears, not only on this page, and carries a sponsored relationship attribute.
• The data model keeps them apart. Editorial records and commercial records are separate structures. A commercial field cannot be written into a record that a page reads as evidence.

Why the site works without any of this

The useful part of Ash Reserve — what an operator publishes, what has been observed, how well evidenced each is, and where the gaps are — does not depend on a single commercial link, and the site is complete and usable with the registry empty, which is its current state.

If this changes

Adding a relationship requires updating this page in the same change. A reader should never encounter a monetised link that this page does not account for.

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