Last Updated: August 15, 2025
Welcome to Tool Tested. We are dedicated to providing real, detailed and honest reviews to help you make the best decisions. As you navigate our site you’ll find some of our links are to external products or services. This page is to give you full transparency on how those links work. This is our official Affiliate Disclosure.
Our Promise of Honesty
We are committed to unbiased and genuine reviews, also we spend a lot of time in testing, researching and writing our content to make sure it’s a top notch. We want to be super clear: Being part of affiliate programs never affects our editorial choices or opinions. The tools and products we recommend are based on their merit and our honest opinion, not on the commission. Your trust is our most valuable asset and we would never compromise it for a buck. Our reviews will always be honest and we will always put you, our reader, first.
Understanding Affiliate Links
Some of the links on Tool Tested are what we call “affiliate links”. An affiliate link is a special kind of URL that contains a tracking code. When you click on one of these links and then buy on the external website, a small commission is credited to us. This is part of our Affiliate Disclosure.
Important to note: this costs you nothing extra. The price of the product or service remains the same for you whether you click on our link or go to the website directly. The commission is paid to us by the company, like Amazon or AliExpress, as a thank you for sending you to their site. This is a common and widely accepted way for websites like ours to earn an income and continue to produce free content.
Our Affiliate Programs
Tool Tested is a participant in a few carefully selected affiliate programs. The biggest of these are:
1. Amazon’s affiliate program: Tool Tested earn from qualifying purchases. This program is a big part of our income. When you click on a link mentioned in any of our post which is an affiliate link of an Amazon product on our site and you buy it through our link, Amazon tracks that you came from us and credits us with a small commission.
2. AliExpress Affiliate Program: We also have a partnership with AliExpress. Same as the Amazon program, if you click on an AliExpress link on our site and buy, we may get a commission.
These commissions allow us to cover the costs of running our website, including hosting fees, domain registration and the time and effort that goes into creating our content. Without this support we wouldn’t be able to continue to provide the detailed free information we do. We believe in being transparent about our Affiliate Disclosure.
A Deeper Look into the Process
When you click affiliate link, a “cookie” is dropped on your browser. This cookie is a small file that tells the company (e.g. Amazon) that you were referred from our website. The cookie doesn’t store any of your personal info, nor does it track your activity outside of that specific website. Its only purpose is to make sure we get the credit for the referral. The cookie has a limited lifespan, usually 24 to 48 hours. So if you click a link but don’t buy for days or weeks later, we may not get the commission.
Again, we want to stress that our recommendations are never based on the commissions we might earn. We will always recommend the products we believe are the best, regardless of the affiliate relationship. If we don’t like a product, we’ll say so. Our reputation and your trust are way more important than a small commission. We stand by this Affiliate Disclosure.
Your Choice and Support
Your decision to click an affiliate link is yours. You are under no obligation to use our links. But if you do choose to buy through our links, we really appreciate your support. It’s a way for you to help us keep this website running and to allow us to continue providing content for free to you.
By using Tool Tested, you agree and accept this Affiliate Disclosure. Thanks for your understanding and support as we try to be your go-to source for tool reviews.