Affiliate and Commercial Disclosure — MyDay Start

The disclosure

MyDay Start may have commercial or affiliate relationships with companies whose products or services it recommends. Where such a relationship exists, MyDay may receive compensation when you choose one of those recommendations — usually a commission paid by the company, at no additional cost to you.

Not every recommendation is commercial. Many are not, and nothing about the way MyDay works requires one to be.

What that does not change

This is the part worth being specific about, because “we may earn a commission” is usually where disclosures stop.

• A commercial relationship does not require MyDay to show you anything. There is no obligation, quota or minimum. Having a partner does not create a reason to surface them.
• Compensation does not guarantee placement. A recommendation must first be relevant to what you are doing, suitable for you, available, and of acceptable quality. Only among options that already pass those tests does a commercial arrangement affect ordering.
• Paying more cannot beat fitting better. An option that suits your situation better cannot be displaced by one that pays more. This is enforced by how the ranking is built, not by good intentions.
• Showing nothing is a normal outcome. MyDay may intentionally show no commercial recommendation at all when nothing appropriate is available.

How you can tell

Anything shown because of a commercial arrangement is labelled where it appears. You should never have to guess whether what you are looking at carries a commercial relationship. If you cannot tell, that is a defect, and we would like to hear about it.

Where we do not do this at all

MyDay Start does not run commercial recommendations in categories touching acute financial hardship, insurance, medical treatment or products, personal crisis, or inferred health status. These categories carry a duty of care that a commercial recommendation cannot meet, and the restriction is not relaxed to increase revenue.

Current status

MyDay Start now has an approved affiliate relationship, but no affiliate offer is served in production until credentials, program mapping, placement and attribution verification are complete. We name or describe a commercial relationship publicly only when doing so is accurate and appropriate.

The principle

User utility and trust take precedence over monetization. A recommendation you did not need is worth less than the trust it costs.

Questions

See the contact page, or read how this interacts with your data in our privacy policy.