The short version
Some links on this site are affiliate links. If you click one and buy something, the retailer pays us a commission. You pay the same price you would have paid by going to the retailer directly. Commissions do not influence our rankings, our scores, or whether a product appears at all.
Which links are affiliate links
Affiliate links may appear in buying guides, product comparisons, and “where to buy” sections. They are typically marked with a small notation, and they always point to a third-party retailer rather than to Aurora Adorned. Links to primary sources — grading laboratories, standards bodies, academic references — are never affiliate links.
What we will not do
- We do not accept payment to include a product in a guide.
- We do not sell sponsored posts, and we do not publish brand-supplied copy as editorial.
- We do not allow a retailer to review or approve a guide before it is published.
- We do not rank a product higher because it pays a better commission. Where two products are genuinely equivalent, we may prefer the one we can link to — but equivalence has to be established first, on the criteria published in How We Test.
Display advertising
We also earn revenue from display advertising. Advertisers buy space by audience segment; they do not choose which articles they appear beside, and they have no input into editorial content.
Your data
When you click an affiliate link, the retailer and the affiliate network may set cookies to attribute the sale. We do not receive your name, address or payment details — only an aggregate report showing that a sale occurred. See our privacy policy for the full picture.
Contact
Questions about this policy, or about a specific link, can go to editors@auroraadorned.com.