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

Nothing. As of the date at the top of this page, EU Vetted has no active affiliate partnerships, no display ads, and no sponsored placements. Every listing currently on the site was researched and published without any commercial relationship with the vendor.

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 and sponsored placements may or may not be introduced — neither exists today, and we are not committed to adding them. If they ever appear, they follow the rules already published in the editorial guidelines: fixed, disclosed slots, a visible Sponsored label (Anzeige in German, Sponsorisé in French) on every appearance, and ads loading only after explicit consent.

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. The default order on category and alternative-to pages is: labelled Featured slots first (when present), then the editor's curation order, then name. Whether a vendor pays the directory a commission has no input into that order — the sorting logic contains no affiliate field at all.

Current affiliate partnerships

None. EU Vetted has zero active affiliate partnerships — every listing on this site was added without one. When the directory joins a vendor's program, that vendor appears in this list automatically, before the first commission is ever paid.

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.