Affiliate Disclosure

Last updated: 2026-06-05

WebAuditFix is free to use. Some of the links on this site — particularly recommendations of hosting providers, CDNs, security tools, compliance tooling, and developer services — are affiliate links. When you click one and make a purchase, we may receive a commission from the vendor at no additional cost to you.

This page explains what that means, why we disclose it, and the rules we apply to ourselves so that an affiliate relationship can never influence what our scanner finds about your website.

1. What an affiliate link is

An affiliate link contains an identifier that tells the destination vendor the visitor came from us. If the visitor then signs up or buys a product within the vendor's tracking window, the vendor pays us a referral fee. The price the visitor pays is exactly the same as it would be without the identifier — affiliate links don't add a surcharge.

Affiliate links may appear in:

• Remediation guidance in scan results and the Premium Compliance PDF (for example, "fix this with Cloudflare" → linked to Cloudflare).
• The free downloadable checklists under /downloads (per-slug pages).
• Articles, comparisons, or blog posts on this site.
• The standards index at /standards where third-party tools or documentation are referenced.

2. How we choose what to recommend

We recommend a product only when we would recommend it to a paying consulting client of Data Vision IT Consulting Limited — i.e. the recommendation has to stand on its merits. The order of preference is:

1. Products we have used in production and would deploy again.
2. Products that pass our own audit (security headers, GDPR posture, NIS2 hygiene) when run against their marketing site.
3. Products that solve a real remediation step our checks surface.

We do not recommend a product purely because it offers an affiliate programme, and we will drop a recommendation if the product degrades or fails our own scanner. If a recommended vendor is later acquired and the new owner changes the product materially, we re-evaluate.

3. Independence from audit scoring

This is the rule that matters most for the integrity of WebAuditFix:

Affiliate relationships do not affect the scanner. The scan engine has no knowledge of which vendors we earn commission from. There is no allow-list or deny-list keyed on affiliate status, and no check weights are altered to flatter or penalise a specific provider. A vendor paying us a referral fee gets the same red ✗ as any other vendor when their marketing site fails one of our checks.

Concretely:

• Scan results are deterministic given the HTTP responses observed. The check logic is the same for every URL.
• The published catalogue at /standards documents every check and its weight. None of the weights depend on the URL being scanned.
• We will publish counter-examples (scans where an affiliated product scored badly) on request, so the rule is verifiable rather than just asserted.

4. Where disclosures appear

In addition to this page, we mark individual affiliate links inline wherever they appear — typically with a small "(affiliate)" tag next to the link, or with a callout at the top of any article that contains affiliate links. The Premium Compliance PDF likewise discloses an affiliate link in the remediation guidance directly next to the link itself, not only in a centralised page that the reader might miss.

Per UK ASA / CAP Code and the EU Unfair Commercial Practices Directive (2005/29/EC, as implemented in Ireland by the Consumer Protection Act 2007), we treat affiliate links as a commercial communication that must be identifiable to the reader. The inline "(affiliate)" tag is how we meet that bar; this page is the centralised reference.

5. Current affiliate partners

We will list specific affiliate partners here as those programmes go live. As of 2026-06-05, no affiliate programmes are active on WebAuditFix — when one is added, this section will name the vendor, the product line(s) we link to, and the rough commission shape (e.g. one-off vs recurring).

If you operate an affiliate programme that would be a good fit (hosting, CDN, security tooling, compliance tooling, developer services) and would like to be considered, email [email protected]. Inclusion is editorial — paying us doesn't buy inclusion.

6. Tracking + cookies

Most affiliate programmes set a cookie or local-storage flag on the vendor's domain when you click through. Those cookies are governed by the vendor's privacy policy, not ours, because they are set on the vendor's site after you leave WebAuditFix. We do not set tracking cookies on WebAuditFix itself (see /cookie-policy) and we do not record which affiliate links a specific visitor clicked.

7. Questions or complaints

If you spot an undisclosed affiliate link, a recommendation that looks paid-for rather than earned, or a check result that you suspect was influenced by an affiliate relationship, [email protected] — we treat that as an editorial-integrity issue and will respond in writing.