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Affiliate Disclosure

ScanTailor.net is a free, independent community resource. This page explains, in plain language, how affiliate links on the site work and what they never influence.

The Short Version

Some outbound links on this site are affiliate links. If you click one and later buy something, the retailer or software vendor may pay this site a commission. The price you pay does not change. Affiliate income helps cover the cost of running the site; it never buys a recommendation.

Which Programs We Use

  • Amazon Associates — ScanTailor.net is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon. Links to Amazon are routed through addresses containing /go/ and carry rel="nofollow sponsored".
  • Software and service affiliates — we may link to PDF and cloud tools (for example Adobe Acrobat, Wondershare PDFelement and pCloud) through their respective affiliate programs. Until a program’s tracking link is in place, such links point to the vendor’s public site as plain placeholders.

Our Rules

  • Downloads are never monetized. ScanTailor Advanced itself is free and open source (GPL-3.0). Our download links point to the project’s official GitHub releases whether or not any affiliate program exists.
  • Affiliate links are labeled. They run through /go/ addresses, use rel="nofollow sponsored", and pages that contain them say so.
  • Recommendations come first. We describe products and tools as we find them — including free and open-source options that pay nothing — and add affiliate links only where a purchase genuinely fits the reader’s task.
  • No paid placements. Vendors cannot pay to be recommended, ranked or reviewed favorably on this site.

Questions about this policy? Reach us via the contact page. See also the site’s disclaimer.