--- title: TIME’s Affiliate Link Policy description: The editors of TIME occasionally publish reviews, guides, and other product-focused articles. Those articles may recommend products or services to our readers or viewers. When... canonical: https://time.com/4605406/time-affiliate-link-policy/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-16T21:04:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T02:21:11.213Z article:section: Press Room og:title: TIME’s Affiliate Link Policy og:description: The editors of TIME occasionally publish reviews, guides, and other product-focused articles. Those articles may recommend products or services to our readers or viewers. When... og:url: https://time.com/4605406/time-affiliate-link-policy/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: TIME’s Affiliate Link Policy twitter:description: The editors of TIME occasionally publish reviews, guides, and other product-focused articles. Those articles may recommend products or services to our readers or viewers. When... twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # TIME’s Affiliate Link Policy by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Dec 16, 2016 9:04 PM UTC by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Dec 16, 2016 9:04 PM UTC The editors of TIME occasionally publish reviews, guides, and other product-focused articles. Those articles may recommend products or services to our readers or viewers. When we make these recommendations, we do so with complete editorial autonomy and without regard to affiliate or advertising relationships maintained by our parent company, Time Inc. In other words: When TIME recommends a product, we really do recommend it. With that said, our product-focused articles may include affiliate links. If readers choose to buy the products we recommend, and use an affiliate link on our site to do so, our work will be supported by an affiliate commission from the retailer we link to. If readers choose to return those products because our recommendation didn’t match reality, we will not make a commission. Our reputation and the relationship TIME has with its readers and viewers is of utmost importance. We will only recommend products and services that we genuinely believe are of value and we will make our best effort to explain our reasoning. If we get it wrong, we will rescind our recommendation and explain why. Thank you for reading. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4605406/time-affiliate-link-policy/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4605406/time-affiliate-link-policy/"},"headline":"TIME’s Affiliate Link Policy","datePublished":"2016-12-16T21:04:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T02:21:11.213Z","description":"The editors of TIME occasionally publish reviews, guides, and other product-focused articles. Those articles may recommend products or services to our readers or viewers. When...","url":"https://time.com/4605406/time-affiliate-link-policy/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Press Room","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/press-room/","name":"Press Room"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4605406/time-affiliate-link-policy/","name":"TIME’s Affiliate Link Policy"}}]}] ```