Affiliate Disclosure
FreelanceToolkit UK contains affiliate links. When you click through and sign up or buy from a partner, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. This page explains exactly how that works, which partners we have, and how we keep editorial independence.
What an affiliate link is
An affiliate link includes a tracking parameter that tells the partner provider that the visit came from FreelanceToolkit UK. If you subsequently sign up or pay them, we receive a small commission. The price you pay is identical to what you'd pay if you went direct — partners don't charge more for affiliate-routed customers.
Where you'll see affiliate links
Most prominently in our "Best of" comparison pages and provider review pages, embedded as recommendation rows clearly styled as affiliate placements. Less prominently in body-copy mentions of providers we're affiliated with. Every page that contains affiliate links displays a banner at the top and bottom labelled "Affiliate disclosure".
Our current active partners
Through the Awin network: Emma (UK budgeting app), Your Company Formations (UK limited company formation), Premierline (UK business insurance broker), Fiverr (freelance marketplace), UKHost4U and WebHostingUK (UK web hosting) and Learning 24/7 (online courses). Through PartnerStack: Dext (receipt scanning) and Deel (international contractor payments). We only link to programmes we have actually joined, and we add at most one or two partner links to a page, where they fit the next step.
Partner links are marked "Affiliate link" next to the link and use rel="sponsored". When you click one, we record an anonymous click event (programme, placement and page) in Google Analytics if you have accepted analytics cookies.
How affiliate revenue affects editorial
It doesn't change which providers we recommend or how we describe them. Where we recommend a provider, it's because we believe they're the best fit for the use case in question — and we say honestly when they're not the best. We routinely mention providers we have no commercial relationship with (e.g. Notion, Trello, Hiscox, PolicyBee, FreeAgent, Wise, Mettle) where they're relevant, without affiliate links. See editorial policy for our full editorial standards.
What we won't do
Take payment for ranking. Sell editorial control over recommendations. Hide affiliate disclosure. Link to programmes we haven't joined, or describe a partner differently because it pays us. Write commission-driven "best of" lists with fabricated rankings. If you ever spot one of these patterns, please contact us — it's almost certainly an editorial mistake we want to fix.
Cookies and tracking
Affiliate links use cookies or click-tracking IDs that identify FreelanceToolkit UK as the source of the visit. We don't have access to your personal sign-up data — the partner provider sees that, not us. We see only aggregate click counts and (when commissions are paid) attribution that a sign-up came from our site. See our privacy policy for the full picture on data.
Your choice
If you'd prefer not to use our affiliate links, you can go direct to any provider mentioned on this site. The recommendation stands either way.
Related editorial / EEAT pages:
- About — who publishes this site
- Editorial Policy — accuracy and corrections
- Affiliate Disclosure — how affiliate links work here
- How We Test Tools — our methodology
- Sources & Methodology — where the facts come from
- Contact — feedback, corrections, partnership enquiries