Affiliate disclosure

PrivacyKit is free to use and runs no ads. Part of what keeps it that way is affiliate revenue: a few of the outbound links to third-party products are affiliate links. If you sign up or buy through one of them, PrivacyKit may earn a commission. You pay the vendor's normal price — the commission comes out of their margin, not your pocket.

This page exists to meet the disclosure expectations of the US Federal Trade Commission and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, and, more to the point, to be straight with you about how the site is paid for.

Recommendations are not for sale

Which tools we recommend, and what we say about them, is decided before any commercial arrangement and never changes because of one. We don't accept payment for a placement, a ranking, or a kind word. A product earns a mention by being something we would tell a colleague to use — and where a tool has a real limitation, we say so on the same screen where you'd decide to use it.

That is also why we point to tools that pay us nothing. For password managers we name Bitwarden and KeePassXC — both open-source and free — alongside the paid options. For VPNs we link Mullvad, one of the tools we most often recommend; Mullvad bans affiliate marketing outright, so we link it with no commission and no tracking, precisely because leaving it out would be dishonest.

The programs we currently use

Where an affiliate program is active, the partner falls into one of three categories:

• Password managers — Proton Pass, 1Password and NordPass.
• VPNs — Proton VPN and NordVPN.
• Domains and hosting — Namecheap and DigitalOcean.

When one of these appears as an affiliate link it is labelled as such next to the link, and the recommendation sits on the same footing as any free alternative named on the page. Nothing here is a paid slot.

If you'd rather not

You never have to use an affiliate link. Searching the product name directly reaches the same vendor at the same price; it simply earns us nothing, and the tool works identically either way. Questions about any of this are welcome on our contact page.