Fine print, in plain English

Affiliate disclosure

Some links on VanTested are affiliate links. If you click one and buy something, the retailer or manufacturer pays us a commission. It costs you nothing extra.

The rules that make that okay

• Every paying link is disclosed where you can see it. Reviews carry a disclosure block stating which programs are involved in that specific article, not a vague site-wide footnote.
• Commissions never touch scores. Products from brands that pay us have failed our tests and will again, and those results get published the same way. Our revenue is deliberately spread across many programs so that no single brand relationship is worth protecting with a dishonest review.
• Free or loaned review units are disclosed too. Under the FTC's Endorsement Guides, a free sample is a material connection just like cash. Reviews of sampled units carry a visible badge. Samples are accepted only with no pre-publication review rights.
• We don't sell gear. No store, no house brand, no "shop our kit" funnel. The moment a review site also sells the products it reviews, its negative reviews stop existing. We've structured the business so ours can't.

Programs

As the site launches we participate in, or have applied to, affiliate programs operated by gear manufacturers and retailers in the van build space. Per-article disclosure blocks name the relevant programs for each review. Affiliate links are tagged rel="sponsored" for search engines.

Questions

If anything on this page and anything in a review ever seem to contradict each other, we want to know. Corrections run through the process on How We Test.