Affiliate disclosure

Dhaka Debates is free to read. One of the ways we pay for our reporting and product testing is through affiliate partnerships. This page explains what that means for you.

What an affiliate link is

Some links on our site, mostly the “Visit site” and “Compare” buttons in our reviews and stories, are affiliate links. If you click one and then open an account, apply for a card, download an app or buy a product, the provider may pay us a commission.

• You do not pay more because you used our link.
• Sometimes our partners offer readers a bonus or discount. When they do, we say so.
• We are paid only for some products. We review and recommend products whether or not they pay us.

How affiliate links are marked

• Review pages and ranking lists that contain affiliate links carry an advertiser disclosure near the top.
• Product boxes in stories are labelled “Affiliate links”.
• Buttons such as “Visit site” lead through a dhakadebates.com/go/ address, which tells you that you are leaving our site for a partner.
• Affiliate links are marked for search engines with rel=”sponsored”.

Our editorial independence

• Partners cannot buy a place on our lists. Ratings, rankings and verdicts are decided by our editors.
• Commercial staff and partners do not see reviews or stories before they are published and cannot ask for changes.
• We test products with our own money and our own accounts wherever we can, usually for at least four weeks, and we publish the fees we were charged.
• If a product gets worse, we change our rating and say why, even if it is a partner.
• If we receive a product, account or trip for free, we say so in the review.

Read more in How we review products.

Which partners we work with

We work with banks, mobile financial services, fintech apps, investment platforms, software companies and affiliate networks. The list changes over time. We do not work with providers we consider unlicensed, misleading or unsafe for readers.

Questions

If you think a link or recommendation is not clearly disclosed, tell us at stories@dhakadebates.com. For partnership enquiries, email adshelp@dhakadebates.com.