Disclosure — How Fencing.net Makes Money

Fencing.net earns money in three ways: display advertising, referral (affiliate) links, and the occasional sponsored post. This page explains each one, because you are entitled to know when we have a financial interest in something we recommend.

The short version: we write the content first and monetize it second, and a commission never buys a recommendation.

Some links on this site are referral links. If you click one and buy something, fencing.net may earn a commission. This never costs you anything extra — the price is the same whether you use our link or go direct.

As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Pages that contain referral links carry a visible notice at the top saying so. We do not rely on this page alone to tell you.

The rules we hold ourselves to:

  • We recommend on merit. Where a product is the right answer, it is the right answer whether or not there is a commission attached.
  • We do not write content built backwards from a referral program.
  • The only advantage a referral partner gets is the tie-break: if price, quality, and reviews are genuinely equal, we will link the partner.
  • Link text describes where the link actually goes. A link that says it points at a specific product points at that product.
  • Much of the equipment we write about — blades, lamés, FIE-rated masks, club-mandated uniforms — is not sold through any program we belong to. We name the specialist retailers anyway, and earn nothing when you buy from them.

We do our best not to let any of this affect our impartiality, but we recognise that it could, and are therefore disclosing it here.

Advertising

We run display advertising, including Google AdSense. Advertisers have no involvement in, or advance sight of, editorial content, and no ad buy has ever bought a mention in an article.

Fencing.net will occasionally accept sponsored posts — someone pays us to publish their content. We always disclose this at the beginning of the post.

While we do edit and control sponsored content to a degree, the nature of it is that it will always be favourable to the party sponsoring it, and we will have received money from them. We do our best not to let this affect impartiality, but we recognise that it could, and are therefore disclosing it here.

Questions

If something on this site looks like an undisclosed commercial relationship, tell us and we will fix it. Our contact details are on the about page.