Affiliate Disclosure

As an Amazon Associate, Depth Protocol earns from qualifying purchases.

When you click certain links on this site and make a purchase, we may receive a small commission at no additional cost to you. This is one way the publication is funded. It does not change our editorial choices.

Depth Protocol is published by Vectis Consulting LLC. The publication is supported in part through affiliate partnerships with retailers and service providers, including:

• Amazon Services LLC Associates Program — When you click an Amazon link from our Site and make a purchase, Amazon shares a percentage of that sale with us as commission. We do not see your payment information; we only see whether the click resulted in a sale, the items purchased, and the commission amount.
• Other affiliate networks — As we expand, we may join additional affiliate programs. We will update this disclosure to name them when active.

1. Editorial first. We choose what to recommend based on what we think is genuinely useful. We do not promote products because they pay better; we link to them because we recommend them, and where an affiliate link is available, we use it.
2. Transparency at the point of recommendation. Articles that contain affiliate links display a clearly visible note: “This article contains affiliate links. See our Affiliate Disclosure for details.” The note appears at the top of the article, not buried in the footer.
3. No paid placement. We do not accept payment for editorial coverage. We do not sell sponsored posts that are made to look like editorial. We do not accept “guest posts” with embedded affiliate links from external parties.
4. No content edits based on affiliate relationships. A recommendation is not strengthened, softened, or hidden based on whether a partner is involved or how much we earn from them.
5. We will recommend non-affiliate products when they’re the right pick. If the best option for your situation is something we don’t have an affiliate relationship with, we’ll say so. We may include a non-tracking link or simply name the product.

When you read a Depth Protocol article and see a product name linked to a retailer (typically Amazon), that link likely contains a tracking parameter that attributes the click to us. Your click does not cost you anything. If you proceed to purchase, the retailer pays us a percentage of the sale.

If you’d prefer not to use our affiliate link, you can search for the product on the retailer’s site directly. The article will still contain the information you need to make the decision; the affiliate link is for convenience and to fund the publication.

As an Amazon Associate, Depth Protocol earns from qualifying purchases. Amazon, the Amazon logo, AmazonSupply, and the AmazonSupply logo are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.

We don’t run display ads. Display ads on editorial sites tend to (a) slow the site down, (b) compromise the reading experience, (c) reward clickbait over real writing, and (d) make a publication’s incentives misalign with its readers’. Affiliate revenue ties our income to whether you actually buy something we recommended — which means we have to recommend things you’d actually buy and be glad you bought.

It’s not a perfect model, but it’s a more honest one for editorial work.

If anything in this disclosure isn’t clear, or you have specific questions about a recommendation in an article, email info@vectisco.ai with “Affiliate Disclosure” in the subject line.