Amazon Associates disclosure

MyTop50 participates in the Amazon Associates programme. When you buy a product through a link on this site we may earn a small commission, at no additional cost to you.

This is the full, plain-language version. The short version sits at the top of every review page.

Required disclosure

As an Amazon Associate, MyTop50 earns from qualifying purchases. MyTop50 is a participant in the Amazon EU Associates Programme, an affiliate advertising programme designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.co.uk. Similar arrangements apply to Amazon.com and other Amazon marketplaces where applicable.

How this works in practice

  • Every link from MyTop50 to an Amazon product page includes our affiliate tracking tag. If you click it and buy something within Amazon's tracking window, Amazon pays us a percentage of the sale.
  • The price you pay is identical whether you reach Amazon through our link or any other route. We do not get any kind of rebate that is taken off your price.
  • All affiliate links on the site are marked with rel="nofollow sponsored" in the HTML, in line with Amazon's requirements and web standards.
  • We use clear call-to-action text — "Check price on Amazon", "See this on Amazon" — rather than hiding affiliate links inside generic phrasing.

How this affects our editorial

The short answer: not much.

  • We do not accept payment to review a product, to rank it higher, or to write favourably about it.
  • Our rankings are based on real demand and review health metrics, not on commission rates.
  • If a product pays us nothing — for example because its seller is not in the Associates programme — we will still cover it if it belongs on the list.
  • We criticise products freely, including ones we are earning commission on. Editorial honesty is the thing that makes the site worth reading in the first place.

The economic reality: Amazon commissions fund the operation. If MyTop50 stops being trustworthy, readers stop clicking, commissions dry up, and the site dies. The incentives line up with honesty, not against it.

Links that are not Amazon

From time to time we link to non-Amazon sources — manufacturer sites, background articles, standards bodies. None of those links are affiliate links unless we say so explicitly in the text next to the link.

Questions

If anything here is unclear, or if you spot an affiliate link that is not properly marked, email [email protected] and we will fix it.