Affiliate Disclosure
Last updated: August 22, 2026
The short version
Some links in our articles are affiliate links. If you click one and buy something, the company pays us a commission. You pay exactly the same price you would have paid otherwise. That commission is how this site stays free, and it has never decided what we recommend.
How this site makes money
Every tool on ImgCruncher is free, has no account, and runs entirely in your browser. That means there is no subscription revenue and nothing to upsell you. The site still costs money to run, so something has to pay for it. Here is the whole list of what does and does not:
| Revenue source | Do we use it |
|---|---|
| Display advertising | No. There are no ad networks, ad scripts or ad cookies anywhere on this site |
| Selling your data | No. Your images never reach our servers, and we have nothing else worth selling |
| Sponsored posts and paid link insertions | No. We decline these |
| Paid reviews or paid placement in a comparison | No. Money cannot buy a position in any list we publish |
| Affiliate commissions on tools we recommend | Yes. This is our only revenue |
What an affiliate link actually is
An affiliate link is an ordinary link with a tag on the end identifying who sent you. If you click through and later sign up or buy, the company can see the referral came from us and pays us a percentage or a flat fee. The price you pay does not change. You are not charged for the referral, and you do not lose any discount by using our link.
Our affiliate links go through https://imgcruncher.com/go/ before landing on the partner. That redirect exists so we can count clicks in aggregate and swap a broken partner URL in one place instead of editing sixty articles. It sets no cookie of its own and records nothing that identifies you.
How you can tell
Any article containing an affiliate link carries a labelled disclosure box near the top, before the first recommendation rather than buried at the end. Affiliate links themselves are marked up as rel="sponsored nofollow", which is the tag Google requires for paid links, and they open in a new tab. If an article has no disclosure box, it has no affiliate links in it.
The rules we hold ourselves to
- We only link to something we have actually used. If we have not run it, we do not recommend it.
- The recommendation is the one we would make with no commission attached. Where the best answer is a free tool, an open-source project or a competitor that pays us nothing, we say so and link it anyway.
- Commission rate never affects ranking. We do not reorder a comparison because one option pays better.
- We say what a product is bad at, not only what it is good at. A recommendation with no drawbacks listed is an advertisement, not a recommendation.
- No partner sees an article before it is published, and no partner can request a change to one afterwards.
- If we stop being able to recommend something honestly, the link comes out, whatever it was earning.
What we do with the click data
We count how many times each recommendation is clicked and which article it was clicked from. That is an aggregate count used to work out which advice readers find useful. It is not linked to you, it is not sold, and it is not combined with anything else. Details are in the privacy policy and the cookie policy.
Once you land on the partner's site, their rules apply instead of ours. Most of them set a cookie on their own domain so they can attribute a later purchase. We cannot read that cookie and have no control over it. If that matters to you, do not use the link. Nothing on this site is gated behind it.
Legal basis for this page
The United States Federal Trade Commission requires a clear and conspicuous disclosure of any material connection between a publisher and a product it endorses, under the FTC Act and the agency's Endorsement Guides. Comparable rules apply in the UK under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations and in the EU under the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive. This page and the in-article disclosure boxes exist to meet that standard. We would publish them anyway.
Questions
If you think a recommendation on this site is compromised, say so through the contact page and we will either defend it in public or change it. Related: editorial policy, privacy policy, disclaimer.