What an affiliate relationship is
An affiliate relationship is a contractual arrangement between Live Well Offers and a merchant — for example, a hotel booking platform, a children’s toy company, or a meal-kit service. Under that arrangement, when you click a link on our site, a cookie or referral token tracks that you arrived from us. If you then purchase, subscribe, or book within a specified window (typically 7–60 days), the merchant pays us a percentage of the sale, a flat referral fee, or a bonus for a qualifying signup.
You pay nothing extra. Affiliate commissions come out of the merchant’s marketing budget — the same budget they would otherwise spend on banner ads or paid search. The price you see is the price you pay.
Who we partner with
We participate in the following types of programs, in roughly descending order of how much they contribute to our revenue:
| Program type | Examples (illustrative) |
|---|---|
| Travel and hospitality booking networks | Online travel agencies, vacation-rental marketplaces, tour-aggregator platforms |
| Major retailer associate programs | Amazon Associates, Target Affiliates, Walmart Creator |
| Direct-to-consumer brand programs | Sleep, wellness, kids, outdoor, and home brands managed via networks like Impact, ShareASale, AWIN, CJ, and Rakuten |
| Subscription and SaaS referrals | Meal kits, learning subscriptions, family-software services |
We are an independent publisher. We are not owned by any of the merchants we link to, and we do not accept payment for placement on category pages or in our newsletter.
How this affects (and doesn’t affect) our picks
Editorial decisions — what we feature, how we rank it, what we say about it — are made by our editorial team. Commercial agreements are negotiated separately. Concretely:
- We will not list an offer we wouldn’t recommend to a friend, regardless of the commission rate.
- If two products are roughly equivalent and one pays a higher commission, we recommend the better product. If they are genuinely tied, we may surface both and disclose the conflict.
- We do not remove negative remarks at a merchant’s request. We will correct factual errors at any party’s request, including the merchant’s.
- Higher commissions are never the reason a product makes the cut. They may, occasionally, be the tiebreaker for which of two equivalent products we test first.
If we wouldn’t buy it for our own family, we don’t list it. The commission is how we keep the lights on — not how we choose what to recommend.
How to spot an affiliate link
Every outbound product link on Live Well Offers is treated as an affiliate link unless explicitly marked otherwise. This is the safe assumption — and the same standard the Federal Trade Commission asks publishers to apply.
Affiliate links use the rel="sponsored nofollow" attribute, which is the W3C-recommended attribute for paid relationships. Some links also route through a short tracking domain (go.livewelloffers.com) before forwarding you to the merchant. We never use bait-and-switch redirects — the destination domain is always shown in the link preview.
Returns, refunds, and warranties
Because we are an affiliate and not the merchant of record, we cannot process returns, refunds, exchanges, or warranty claims for products you purchase through our links. Your contract is with the merchant — please reach out to them first for any post-purchase issue.
If a merchant ignores you or treats you badly, we want to know. Tell us at contact.html and we will look into whether to keep listing them.
Changes to this disclosure
We update this disclosure when our partnerships change in a way that meaningfully affects readers. The "Effective" date at the top of the page reflects the most recent material change. We keep an archive of previous versions on request.
Questions about a specific link?
If you want to know whether a particular offer is an affiliate link, or how much we earn from it, just ask.