Where this stands today

Health Captain does not currently carry affiliate links. If that changes, this page changes with it, and the rules below apply from the first link.

How affiliate links would be labelled

An affiliate link is a link that pays the publisher a commission if you buy something after clicking it. Where Health Captain uses them:

  • A disclosure appears at the top of the page, before the first affiliate link, not buried at the foot.
  • The individual link is marked in the text, so you can tell which links pay us and which do not.
  • Affiliate links carry the appropriate rel attributes and open in a new tab.
  • The disclosure states plainly that the price you pay is unaffected.

The line affiliate links never cross

Two rules make the rest of this page enforceable.

Commission never determines what is recommended

What we recommend is decided before anyone looks at whether a commission exists. If the better option pays nothing and the worse option pays well, we recommend the better option and link it without payment. A category where every good option is unmonetisable is a category we cover with no links at all.

No clinical recommendation is ever monetised

We do not monetise advice about treatment, medication, screening, diagnosis, or when to seek care. There are no affiliate links on medication pages, on condition pages, on emergency resources, or in any warning-sign section. If a page tells you to go and see somebody, no part of that page is earning a commission.

What we would and would not link

Where affiliate links might reasonably appear: everyday items a guide already recommends and a reader has to buy somewhere anyway — a validated home blood pressure monitor, a pill organiser, a food scale, a book.

What we would never link: supplements, unapproved treatments, direct-to-consumer diagnostic tests without evidence of clinical utility, weight-loss products, or any product whose marketing makes a disease claim.

Other commercial relationships

Any other arrangement that could reasonably be seen to affect our judgement — sponsorship, paid partnerships, syndication deals, or a financial interest in a company we write about — is disclosed on the page it affects. Reviewers declare relevant financial interests under our medical review policy, and advertising is governed by our advertising policy.