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Disclosure

You should not have to discover any of this somewhere else, so all of it is on this page.

This site is independently run and accepts no paid placements.

Commercial relationships with listed operators

There are currently none. Every one of the 207 entries on this site carries a relationship of "none". No operator listed here pays us, and no link on this site is an affiliate link today.

We intend to build referral and affiliate relationships, and when we do they will appear in the table below automatically and be labelled on the listing itself. We are stating the current position rather than describing a policy in the abstract, because "we disclose our relationships" means very little when the honest answer is that there are not any yet.

How disclosure is enforced

Every listing record must declare a commercial relationship. It is a required field with four permitted values, checked when the site is built. A listing that omits it does not publish undisclosed, it stops the build. The label and the wording you see on a paid listing are generated from that field rather than written by hand, so a page cannot exist with a relationship that is not shown on it.

This is a deliberately boring mechanism. Disclosure that depends on somebody remembering is disclosure that eventually gets forgotten.

What compensation does not buy

• Being listed. Operators are listed on merit against the editorial standard, including direct competitors.
• Position. Listings are ordered by type and verification status, never by payment.
• Tone. A paying operator with a bad deadline, an ambiguous policy, or a self-contradiction gets it printed exactly as an unpaid one would.
• Removal of an unflattering line. There is no rate card for that.

Cruise lines

The cruise line gift programmes listed here are not affiliates and have no relationship with us. They are listed because they are the correct answer for most people, which is an awkward thing for a directory that hopes to earn referral revenue and is true anyway.

Data

This site sets no cookies, runs no advertising, has no third-party trackers and collects no personal information. It has no forms. Outbound links to operators pass through a redirect on this domain so we can count how often a listing is used; that counts the click, not the person.