Affiliate disclosure

The short version

• Many store links on this site are affiliate links. A purchase made after clicking one can earn us a commission, paid by the store.
• Your price is the same with or without our link, and no coupon is withheld from you because it pays us less.
• Commissions don't decide which products we cover or which ones get a Best for label.
• The merchants and products on the site are a selection, not the whole market.
• Pages paid for by a brand carry the label Advertisement above the title.

Where the money comes from

Deals Meridian is a publisher in affiliate programs. A store that sells online agrees to pay a small share of an order to the websites that send it customers. To make that work, links from our guides to a store usually pass through an affiliate network, a company that records which publisher sent each visitor and settles the payments.

The networks we work with are Awin and Admitad, and we may join programs run by other networks or directly by retailers. If a click on such a link leads to a purchase, the store may pay us a commission, typically a percentage of the order value. Sometimes nothing is paid: when you return the item, when the store excludes certain products or when you shop later from another device.

What it costs you

Nothing extra. The commission comes out of the store's marketing budget. You pay the same price whether you reach the store through our link, through a search engine or by typing the address, and the store doesn't learn anything about you from us beyond the fact that the visit started on Deals Meridian.

What commissions don't touch

• The picks. Products are chosen with the method described in how we pick. A product can appear in a guide even if no program pays us for it, and a store that pays more gets no extra space.
• The "Best for" verdicts. The Budget, Quality and Premium labels depend on price, specifications and return terms. They are settled before we check whether a link earns anything, and no brand or network can buy, edit or approve one.
• The order of products. Comparison tables and product grids follow the order of the guide's argument or the price, never the commission rate.
• The coupons we list. We publish only codes that a store or its network has released for publishers, and we don't drop a valid code from a guide because it earns us less.

What you won't find here

The merchants and products we mention are a selection, not a survey of the whole market. We cover the stores and brands we could check properly in the time we had, several of them through programs that pay us, and there are good products and cheaper sellers that never appear on this site. Before a large purchase, look around beyond our list.

About the prices and codes you see

• A price on this site is an example with a date: what one named seller charged on the day we looked. It may already be different when you click.
• A discount badge always says what it is measured against, for example "below the seller's list price". We don't repeat a "was" price whose origin we can't verify.
• Coupons and promo codes can expire early, apply only to some items or require a minimum order, and many are valid only in certain countries.
• We don't promise that a product is in stock, that a price will hold or that a code will work. The store's checkout page is the final word.

How paid content is labeled

• Guides with affiliate links say so in a short note under the headline, before the first store link.
• Buttons to a store sit next to the same note, and their links are marked sponsored for search engines.
• Pages paid for by a brand or a store, or written only to promote one offer, are marked "Advertisement" over the headline. We don't dress up an ad as an independent guide.
• We don't accept free products, trips or other gifts in exchange for coverage.

Tracking cookies from affiliate networks

Deals Meridian doesn't set affiliate cookies, and reading our pages places no network or store cookie on your device. Tracking starts only when you click a link to a merchant: the network's server or the store's site then records the click, usually with a cookie or an identifier in the web address, so that a purchase can be matched to our site. Those cookies are placed on the network's or the store's domain, under their own privacy notices and cookie choices. The cookie policy and the privacy policy have the details and links.

Questions

If a label seems unclear, or you want to know whether a specific link pays us, write to info@dealsmeridian.com. Deals Meridian is published by CTAWeb Srls, Falciano del Massico, Italy.