Some retailer links on Australian Product Guide are affiliate links. If you follow an eligible link and make a qualifying purchase, Australian Product Guide may receive a commission without increasing a product's recommendation score because of that commercial relationship.
How commercial relationships affect recommendations
They do not add suitability points. Affiliate status, commission opportunity, retailer participation, exact-link availability and imagery availability are excluded from product-fit scoring. Australian Product Guide's recommendation should be explainable without reference to the commission available from a retailer.
Amazon Australia
For Amazon Australia, Australian Product Guide uses an exact individual product destination only where the product or variant identity has been verified. Where exact identity has not been verified, Australian Product Guide may use a clearly presented model-specific Amazon search fallback rather than guessing a product identifier or sending shoppers to a potentially incorrect listing.
Affiliate click-outs
Affiliate destinations contain attribution information so the retailer can recognise an eligible referral. Once a shopper leaves Australian Product Guide, the third party controls its website or app, account information, cookies, checkout, seller relationship, fulfilment and privacy practices. Australian Product Guide does not receive a copy of a shopper's retailer checkout details merely because an affiliate link was used.
Amazon product content
Amazon Program Content is used only through mechanisms permitted by the applicable Amazon Associates programme terms and policies and only where Australian Product Guide can verify the relevant product or variant match and record the usage basis. Australian Product Guide does not scrape Amazon product pages, guess product identifiers or fabricate access to Amazon systems.
Other and future retailers
Australian Product Guide is designed to support more than one retailer. A technical ability to link to a retailer does not imply a partnership, approval or affiliate relationship. Any active commercial relationship should be disclosed where relevant and remains outside product-fit scoring.