Last updated: May 2026

This is the Affiliate Disclosure for Polished & Well. It’s required by FTC regulations in the United States and similar regulations in the UK, EU, Canada, and Australia. It also reflects my personal commitment to transparency.

The short version

Some links on this Site are affiliate links. If you click on them and make a purchase, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. I only recommend products and courses I’ve personally used and believe in. Affiliate relationships don’t change what I recommend or what I say about it.

What “affiliate link” means

An affiliate link is a special URL that tracks when a visitor clicks through to a merchant’s site and makes a purchase. If you click an affiliate link and buy something, the merchant pays me a small commission as thanks for the referral. The price you pay is exactly the same whether you use my link or go to the merchant directly.

Where affiliate links appear

Affiliate links may appear in:

Throughout the Site, affiliate links are typically marked clearly within the affiliate callout boxes. Plain text links to commercial products are also generally affiliate links.

Which programs I participate in

Polished & Well currently participates in (or may participate in) affiliate programs including:

This list may change over time as I add or remove programs.

How I choose what to recommend

I recommend products and courses based on:

  1. Whether I’ve personally used or tested it
  2. Whether I think it’s genuinely good for the people reading this site
  3. Whether it represents fair value at its price point

I do not recommend something simply because it has a high affiliate commission. I’d rather earn less and remain trusted than earn more by pushing things I don’t believe in.

If I haven’t tried it

When I mention a product I haven’t personally tried but include for comparison or context, I’ll say so clearly in the article. “I haven’t used this myself, but it’s worth knowing about” or similar language.

Negative reviews

I’m willing to write critical or negative reviews of products and courses, even when I’d earn affiliate commission from positive reviews. Honesty matters more to me than the commission, and I’d rather have a smaller audience that trusts me than a larger audience that doesn’t.

What you can do

If you find an article useful and want to support the site, clicking through an affiliate link before making a related purchase is the most direct way. If you’d rather not use my affiliate link, you can always go to the merchant’s site directly — and your relationship with this site is unchanged either way.

Questions

If you have questions about affiliate relationships or how I handle them, use the contact page and ask directly. I’ll answer honestly.

One last thing

Most “affiliate disclosures” online are written by lawyers for legal cover, not for the reader. This one is written by me, for you. The legal requirements are met, but more importantly, you should understand what you’re getting into when you read recommendations on this site. Now you do.