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Affiliate Disclosure

Updated

Some FitVilo articles link to products. A small number of those links are affiliate links. If you click an affiliate link and then make a purchase on the merchant’s site, FitVilo may receive a small commission from the merchant, at no extra cost to you.

This page explains how affiliate links work on fitvilo.com, what they affect, and what they do not affect. Updated: 2026-05-19.

An affiliate link is a regular link to a product or category page on a retailer’s site that carries a small tracking parameter. When a reader clicks through and buys something, the retailer pays the referring site a commission, typically a percentage of the order. The reader pays the same price as arriving through any other route.

On FitVilo, affiliate links are limited. Most product links in articles go directly to a manufacturer page (for specifications) or to a retailer’s listing without an affiliate parameter. Where an affiliate link does appear, it is one of the larger general retailers (such as Amazon Associates) and is restricted to products the article would have recommended anyway.

What commissions do not affect

Three things are firewalled from any commission a link might earn.

Which products FitVilo covers. Articles are scoped by reader question, not by retailer. A piece on adjustable dumbbells is written because readers ask about adjustable dumbbells, not because a retailer pays better commissions on them.

What FitVilo says about a product. Pros, drawbacks, and notes about apartment fit, noise, footprint, or beginner risk are written from the criteria stated in the article itself. Where a product is poorly suited to the use case under discussion, the article says so, and the affiliate link, if any, does not change that conclusion.

How a product ranks in a comparison. If an article compares several products, the ranking follows the criteria in the article. The product at the top of a comparison is not the one that pays best; it is the one that fits the criteria best.

If a future commercial relationship begins to pull on any of these in a way readers would notice, the article will say so plainly or be revised.

Affiliate links on FitVilo are marked at the point of the link in the article, with a short note in parentheses or a footnote at the end of the relevant section. Where an entire article is written around affiliate links (for example, a buyer’s guide that uses affiliate links throughout rather than per-link), a notice at the top of the article says so before the body begins.

If you are not sure whether a link earns FitVilo a commission, hovering over the link in most browsers shows the destination URL; affiliate parameters are usually visible in the URL itself. When in doubt, write to hello@fitvilo.com and FitVilo will answer for the specific article and link.

Other ways FitVilo earns money

FitVilo plans to display advertising through Google AdSense once AdSense submission is approved. Display ads are served by Google and follow Google’s ad policies. Display advertising does not affect which products an article covers, what the article says about them, or how they rank.

FitVilo does not accept sponsored content, paid product reviews, “best of” placements bought by a brand, gift-card-in-exchange-for-coverage arrangements, or any other pay-to-publish format. If a brand reaches out with a sponsorship offer, the response is no.

If any of this changes, the change will be reflected here and on the Editorial Policy page before any new arrangement starts running.

FTC compliance and reader recourse

FitVilo follows the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s guidance on endorsement and affiliate disclosure, including outside the United States, because the principles read as plain editorial honesty regardless of jurisdiction: tell the reader when a link earns a commission, where it goes, and what it does and does not influence.

If a marked link reads as misleading, or if you believe a recommendation is colored by a commission relationship in a way the article did not disclose, write to hello@fitvilo.com with the article URL and a short description. Substantive concerns are reviewed within five business days.