Affiliate disclosure

Spout & Sink participates in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.

When you click a buy link on this site, you go through a short redirect on our own domain that adds our Associates tag and sends you to Amazon. If you buy something in that session, Amazon pays us a percentage of the sale. You pay exactly the same price you would have paid arriving at Amazon directly — the commission comes out of the retailer's margin, not your pocket.

That is the whole mechanism. There is no subscription, no paywall, no newsletter to sell, and no display advertising on this site.

Every price on Spout & Sink is read from Amazon's own product feed by an automated job that runs once a day, and it is shown with the date it was read. Nobody types a price into an article, because the content model has nowhere to store one — a number can only ever arrive from that feed.

The rule we hold ourselves to is that a cached price is a wrong price. So the figures expire on their own: if the daily check fails for two days running, every number on the site disappears and each button goes back to reading "Check price on Amazon". The failure mode is silence rather than a stale claim, which is the opposite of a competitor's month-old figure presented as current.

Amazon is still the authority on what you will actually pay. A price here tells you the band a product sits in and when we last looked; the checkout page tells you the rest, including any promotion, shipping or tax.

Amazon Associates, and at present nothing else. We are a new publication, and affiliate networks approve publishers rather than the reverse — so rather than link to programs we have not joined, every product link on this site goes to Amazon with our own tag.

Where we link to a manufacturer's own website — for a specification sheet or a raw spec table — we earn nothing at all. Those links exist so you can check our figures against the source. They are not commercial links and they are not tagged.

• Which products get recommended. Picks are chosen on published specifications, and every figure links to its source so you can check the reasoning rather than trust it.
• Ranking order. A cheaper product that suits your kitchen better ranks above a more expensive one that does not, every time.
• Whether we say something negative. Every pick on this site carries an explicit "skip it if" line naming who should not buy it.
• Whether a page has picks at all. Safety and troubleshooting content carries products only where a product genuinely belongs in the procedure.

In three places, deliberately. A short disclosure sits above the first affiliate link on every page that has one. Every buy button carries an "#ad" marker and a link back to this page. And the footer of every page on the site carries the Amazon Associates statement. Footer-only disclosure is not sufficient, and we do not rely on it.

Every commercial link also carries `rel="sponsored nofollow"`, which is what Google asks publishers to use for paid or affiliate links. Editorial citations to manufacturers and labs do not, because they are genuine references rather than commercial links.

If anything about how this site is funded is unclear, ask: contact@spoutandsink.com. Our editorial policy sets out what we will and will not publish, and methodology explains how recommendations are made.