AFFILIATE DISCLOSURE · v1.0 · 2026-05

Affiliate Disclosure

bidyou.ai is partly funded by affiliate commissions paid to us by a small number of retailers when our users follow links to those retailers and buy a product. This page explains exactly how that works, what we never do, and how you can opt out.

1. What an affiliate link is

An affiliate link is a regular link with a tracking parameter that tells the retailer "this visit came from bidyou.ai". If the visit results in a purchase, the retailer pays us a small commission (typically 1–5% of the sale, sometimes a fixed cents-per-click fee). You pay the same price you would pay if you went to the retailer directly — the commission comes out of the retailer's marketing budget, not your wallet.

2. Where affiliate links appear on bidyou.ai

• Marketplace lookup results — when our quote engine returns search results from public marketplaces and retailers, links to participating retailers may be decorated with our affiliate tracking parameter. Each result is labelled aff when this is the case.
• The marketplace demo widget on /marketplace/ uses the same labelling.
• Some content pages (blog posts, comparison reviews) may include affiliate links to relevant tools or products. They will be labelled or disclosed inline.

3. What we do not do

• We do not add a margin on top of the retailer's price. The price you see in the result is the retailer's price.
• We do not rank results to maximise our commission. Marketplace results are ranked by total cost delivered, not by which retailer pays us most. When two results are tied on price and shipping, we may prefer a non-affiliate retailer to avoid any conflict-of-interest signal.
• We do not hide the affiliate relationship. Every affiliate link in a result card carries a visible aff badge, and this page is linked from every page on the site.
• We do not sell your search history to advertisers, marketplaces or anyone else. Search queries are cached on our infrastructure for performance and for the explicit affiliate-attribution purpose. See Privacy Policy.
• We do not recommend products purely because of affiliate revenue. The product database that drives the engine is the same whether or not a retailer participates in an affiliate network.

4. Affiliate networks and partners we work with

bidyou.ai uses a combination of direct affiliate enrollment (with major retailers in markets we cover) and consolidated affiliate aggregators (Skimlinks, Awin, TradeDoubler, where applicable) to keep the technical and tax overhead manageable. The current published list of affiliate partners is maintained at /legal/subprocessors/. Where our marketplace lookup returns a result that comes from a participating retailer, the link is decorated with the relevant tracking parameter at the moment of click.

5. How affiliate commission supports the product

Affiliate revenue funds the marketplace lookup feature (Brave Search API, caching infrastructure, retailer integrations) and offsets the cost of keeping a generous Free tier available. Pro and Enterprise customers do not subsidise the Free tier; affiliate revenue does.

6. How to opt out

You can disable affiliate-link decoration globally for your account at any time:

• Logged-in users — Settings → Preferences → "Disable affiliate links". When this is enabled, all marketplace lookup results are returned with the original retailer URL, no tracking. We do not track your clicks at all in this mode.
• Anonymous visitors (e.g., the /marketplace/ demo widget) — affiliate decoration is already off by default until you sign up. The demo runs against mock data so no real attribution happens.
• Browser-level — using a browser extension that strips tracking parameters (e.g., uBlock Origin's "Strip URL Parameters" filter, ClearURLs) is fully compatible with bidyou.ai. We will not penalise or block visitors who use these tools.

7. Disclosure obligations

This disclosure is intended to satisfy the following regimes:

• EU Unfair Commercial Practices Directive (Directive 2005/29/EC) — disclosure of commercial intent of a communication.
• EU Consumer Rights Directive (Directive 2011/83/EU) — pre-contractual information.
• Portuguese Decree-Law 24/2014 (distance contracts) — local transposition.
• UK ASA / CMA — "ad" / "affiliate" labelling on commercial content.
• US Federal Trade Commission 16 CFR Part 255 — endorsement and testimonial disclosures (relevant to any US visitors and to bidyou.ai content marketing).
• French ARPP, German UWG, Italian AGCM equivalents.

8. Changes to this disclosure

We will update this page when affiliate partnerships change, when the list of participating retailers grows, or when applicable law changes. Material changes are communicated 30 days in advance to active accounts. Last update: 10 May 2026.

9. Contact

Questions, complaints or concerns about affiliate practices on bidyou.ai: privacy@bidyou.ai.