Affiliate Disclosure

Who is The FTC?

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is a self-governing agency of the United States established in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission Act.

In pursuing its mission, the FTC creates and enforces rules concerning how organizations and individuals carry out business practices including, Anti-trust regulations, accuracy in advertising, and many other commonly encountered consumer-protection mechanisms.

FTC Disclosure Compliance Rules

With the concern of FTC in protecting consumers from deceptive marketing
practices, the FTC requires that affiliate marketers and others using the internet and social media to promote products and brands disclose their financial relationship to the products and brands they cite.

These rules are imposed to make sure that readers or internet visitors are aware of the blogger or publisher is sponsored, endorsed, or partnered with a different company. According to the FTC Disclosure Compliance Rules, the readers must aware, if the content publisher is generating money by sharing a link or product.

In agreement with the FTC guidelines, any/all of the links on PickHelmet.com are affiliate links for which PickHelmet acquire a small compensation in return of sales of certain items or product.

What Are Affiliate Links?

Affiliate Links are those external links, one put on its website or social media for any e-commerce store. When your website visitor clicks that link, it lands your website visitor on the page of specific e-commerce store where he/she can purchase any items or product. Affiliate Network tracks the purchase and other transaction details. In result, you get paid your commission.

It is hereby declared that whenever a visitor clicks on an affiliate link located at PickHelmet.com to purchase any item or product the visitor buys from the seller or vendor directly (not from PickHelmet.com).

Companies like Amazon pays PickHelmet.com a small commission or other financial compensation to bring customers to their websites.

It is hereby declared that prices are similar for the visitor, whether they purchase through an affiliate link or a non-affiliate link. Clicking an affiliate link or non-affiliate link does not change the prices of any item or product.

PickHelmet.com uses two main types of Affiliate Links.

  • Amazon Affiliate Links
  • Product Affiliate Links

Amazon Affiliate Links

PickHelmet.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program intended to provide a platform for website owners to earn money by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites, as well as to other websites that fall in the category of Amazon Service LLC Associates Program.

Product Affiliate Links

If you click a product affiliate link located at PickHelmet.com and purchase the product, then PickHelmet.com will get a percentage of the sale or some other type of compensation.

Again, it is hereby declared prices are not different if you purchase through these affiliate links. In addition, you will not pay more by clicking through to the link. These links are not “pay per click.”

PickHelmet.com Sponsored Content Policy

It is declared PickHelmet.com do not write sponsored posts. Our mission is to
provide authentic, unbiased information to our readers. However, if a company would like to publish sponsored content on PickHelmet.com, we will disclose this clearly at the beginning of the post.

The bottom line is that PickHelmet.com only recommend products we use
personally or that we would recommend to family and friends.

Your purchase helps support PickHelmet.com research efforts. Thank you very, very much! We appreciate you!

This Disclosure is adapted from FTC standard disclosure guidelines.