How EU Vetted is funded

Who pays for this site

EU Vetted is built and run by a single editor. There is no parent company, no investor, no grant, and no vendor money behind it. Hosting, tooling, and the editorial hours are paid out of the editor's own pocket. The registered provider is listed in the Legal Notice.

What the site earns today

Affiliate commissions since summer 2026 and claimed listings offered since October 2026. Amounts are not published. Both lists below are generated from the database, so they are current the moment a partnership or a claim goes live.

How the site may be funded later

Affiliate commissions are the planned primary stream. When EU Vetted joins a vendor's affiliate program, a click on that vendor's "Visit site" button may earn the directory a commission if you later become a paying customer. The price you pay is the same either way; the commission comes out of the vendor's marketing budget. Pages containing affiliate links carry a visible affiliate disclosure.

Display ads may or may not be introduced; none exist today, and we are not committed to adding them. If they ever appear: fixed, disclosed slots, a visible label, loading only after explicit consent.

Claimed listings are sold to vendors on the terms published on the For vendors page. Each carries a visible Sponsored label (Anzeige in German, Sponsorisé in French) on every appearance.

How affiliate links work technically

Every outbound "Visit site" click goes through an internal redirect on this domain. Today that redirect appends nothing but a generic source tag (no affiliate or referral parameters) because there is no partnership to track. When a partnership exists, the redirect will carry that vendor's referral parameter, and the vendor will appear in the list below. EU Vetted itself sets no tracking cookie for this; what happens after you land on the vendor's site is governed by the vendor's own privacy notice.

What money can never buy

• Inclusion or exclusion. Listings are free and editorial. Vendors cannot pay to be added, and removal is unconditional and free. See request removal.
• The factual signals. The compliance signals, the CLOUD Act exposure flag, and the ownership signal reflect the editor's reading of public vendor disclosures. See how we assess. No form of payment changes them.
• Listing order. Labelled claimed listings sort first on category and hub listings and in search; after them, and everywhere else, the order is the editor's curation order, then name. Alternatives pages, top picks, the home page and the related products on a product page are editorial only. Whether a vendor pays the directory a commission has no input into that order. The sorting logic contains no affiliate field at all.
• Editorial text. The vendor block on a claimed listing is written by the vendor and marked as such. It never replaces or edits a word of the editorial text, the rationale, or the verification notes.

Current affiliate partnerships

EU Vetted currently participates in the affiliate programs of the following vendors:

• Infomaniak AI Tools
• Infomaniak Mail (kSuite)
• Infomaniak Newsletter
• Infomaniak Public Cloud
• IONOS
• kChat (Infomaniak)
• kDrive (Infomaniak)
• kMeet (Infomaniak)
• pCloud
• pCloud Pass
• Proton Drive
• Proton Lumo
• Proton Mail
• Proton Pass
• Proton VPN

Current claimed listings

None yet. When a vendor's claim goes live, it appears in this list the same day.

Questions

If anything on this page is unclear, or you believe a commercial relationship is not disclosed properly, write to hello@euvetted.com. We aim to reply within 3 business days.