Affiliate Disclosure
Clear, straightforward guidelines on how we fund our independent research, testing protocols, and public tools.
Core Summary: When you follow an outbound link from Do The Right Mix to a vendor or service and make a qualifying purchase, we may receive a small commission. This occurs at zero additional cost to you and never impacts our mechanical ratings, editorial judgments, or regulatory reporting.
1. Why We Disclose
Operating an authoritative digital resource requires ongoing capital: procuring commuter hardware for teardowns and road tests, accessing technical engineering standards, developing custom interactive calculation models, and maintaining secure server infrastructure.
Rather than locking our content behind paywalls, subscription fees, or intrusive third-party display advertisements that compromise user privacy and slow down page performance, we utilize performance-based affiliate partnerships to support our publication.
2. How Affiliate Marketing Functions Here
Across our hardware evaluations (such as folding electric bikes, commuter helmets, and weather-sealed transit luggage) and transit booking analyses, you will encounter links directing you to official manufacturers, certified retailers, and ticket reservation portals.
- These outbound hyperlinks contain a customized tracking identifier.
- If you click a link and proceed to purchase an item or book a service, the merchant credits our publication with a percentage referral commission.
- Pricing Guarantee: The retail price you pay remains entirely unchanged. You never pay a surcharge, booking fee, or higher premium by utilizing an affiliate link from our site. In many instances, partnerships allow us to provide verified reader discounts.
3. Absolute Editorial Separation
We maintain a strict boundary between our commercial partnerships and our testing methodology. Commercial agreements have zero bearing on editorial outputs:
- No Paid Reviews: We do not accept sponsored reviews, paid product placements, or monetary compensation to alter testing scores or omit mechanical deficiencies.
- Negative Findings Are Never Suppressed: If a folding hinge develops play after 500 km, an internal gear hub exhibits drag under load, or a water-ingress seal fails in continuous rain, that deficiency is documented prominently in our guides.
- Inclusion Based on Merits: Products, transit passes, and mobility services are featured in our comparisons because our research team considers them genuinely reliable, safe, and cost-effective for European commuters—never because a vendor offers an affiliate program. If a market-leading product lacks an affiliate program, we include and recommend it regardless.
4. Compliance with Regulatory Authorities
This disclosure policy complies fully with the European Union Directive on Consumer Rights, the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive (UCPD), and the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) guidelines regarding endorsements and testimonials.
5. Questions and Commercial Correspondence
If you have questions regarding our commercial arrangements, testing independence, or specific merchant links found across the site, please contact our compliance desk directly:
Compliance & Partnerships: compliance@dotherightmix.eu
Postal & Legal: Do The Right Mix Mobility Research Hub