Effective date: April 17, 2026

1. What This Page Is

Godberry Studios writes tutorials, comparisons, and build logs about AI tools, automation platforms, and web-scraping tech. Some of those posts contain affiliate links. This page explains exactly what that means, what we will and will not do with them, and what rights you have as a reader.

If anything here is unclear, email hello@godberrystudios.com.

An affiliate link is a normal link to a third-party product or service that includes a tracking identifier. If you click that link and later sign up or buy, the vendor pays Godberry Studios a small commission. You pay the same price either way — the commission comes out of the vendor’s margin, not your wallet.

We mark affiliate links two ways, every time:

  1. A visible "(affiliate)" label next to the link, so you can see it with your eyes before you click.
  2. A machine-readable rel="sponsored nofollow" attribute, so search engines and assistive technology also know.

We also show a short disclosure banner at the top of any post that contains affiliate links.

This is required of us by the US FTC (16 CFR Part 255, “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising”) and by EU transparency rules under the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive. We treat both as the floor, not the ceiling.

3. Our Editorial Independence Rule

We only recommend tools we actually use or would happily use ourselves.

This is not a marketing line. It is a hard rule, and it has real consequences for our revenue:

  • If a vendor offers us a commission but the product is weak, we do not write about it.
  • If a vendor offers us a higher commission than a better competitor, we still recommend the better one and accept the smaller cheque.
  • If we discover mid-draft that an affiliate product has a serious flaw, we either kill the article or write the flaw in plainly. We do not paper over problems to protect a commission.

The commission decides whether a link is tracked. It does not decide whether we write about the product, and it does not decide the conclusion of a post.

Posts that can contain affiliate links:

  • Comparison posts (“X vs Y vs Z”)
  • Tool roundups and recommendation lists
  • Tutorials that walk through a specific commercial product
  • Stack/workflow posts that mention commercial components

Posts that will never contain affiliate links:

  • Security write-ups and vulnerability disclosures
  • Ethics, policy, and transparency posts
  • Build logs reporting our own revenue or product decisions
  • News commentary on third parties (we do not monetize coverage of other companies’ mistakes)

This split is deliberate. A commission on a security warning or a policy take would compromise the reason the reader is here in the first place.

5. How Recommendations Are Ordered

When a post ranks or orders tools, the ranking is based on the criteria stated in that post (price, feature set, ease of use, privacy posture, etc.), not on commission size. If two tools are roughly equivalent on the stated criteria, we will say so and leave the choice to you.

We will never add a tool to a comparison solely because it has an affiliate program, and we will not omit a tool solely because it does not.

6. What We Do Not Do

  • We do not write sponsored content disguised as editorial.
  • We do not accept payment to insert a product into an article.
  • We do not allow affiliate partners to review or influence drafts before publication.
  • We do not use affiliate cookies or tracking pixels beyond what the vendor’s link itself carries.
  • We do not retarget, profile, or sell reader data.

Our privacy posture remains what it says in our Privacy Policy: Cloudflare Web Analytics only, no cookies, no profiles.

7. Programs We Currently Use

We list every active affiliate relationship here as we join one. If a program is not on this list, we have no commercial relationship with that vendor.

Vendor Product How our links look
Make.com Automation / workflow platform make.com/en/register?pc=godberry

If you spot an (affiliate) marker on a link whose vendor is not in this table, that is a bug — please email hello@godberrystudios.com and we will fix it.

Additional programs we have applied to but have not yet had approved will not appear here until approved and live in a published article.

8. Your Rights as a Reader

  • You can click any non-affiliate version of the same link — most vendors have a public homepage that is not our tracking link. We will always tell you the vendor’s name so you can navigate there directly if you prefer.
  • You can report a link that looks mislabelled or missing its disclosure. We will fix it fast and publicly note the correction.
  • You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time and retain your rights under GDPR (access, deletion, rectification, portability) as described in our Privacy Policy.

9. Changes to This Page

We will keep this page up to date. Material changes (new programs, policy changes, new categories of posts) will be reflected here with the effective date at the top updated.

10. Contact

Questions, complaints, corrections: hello@godberrystudios.com.

For privacy and data matters specifically, see our Privacy Policy. For general terms, see our Terms of Use.