Affiliate disclosure

Effective date: September 28, 2026
Last updated: September 28, 2026

Hanzi Heard writes about courses, apps, teachers, and tools that a reader might pay for. Some companies pay a commission when a reader follows a link and buys. That is an affiliate relationship. The Federal Trade Commission expects it to be stated clearly, close to the recommendation, not buried.

What is true on this date

As of September 28, 2026, the published pages do not contain affiliate links. There is no commission to earn from anything currently on the site. This page exists so the rule is in place before the first commercial link is.

How a later recommendation will be labeled

• The page that contains the link will say, near the recommendation, that we may earn a commission if you buy through it.
• The price you pay should not change because the link was ours. If a program works differently, the page will say so.
• A link that is only a citation, with no commission, will not be dressed up as a recommendation.

What a commission is not allowed to do

A commission does not decide a ranking, a verdict, or which option is named first. Pages that compare products say in advance which facts are allowed to decide. Those rules are in the editorial policy. If a preferred partner does not win on those facts, the page says that.

We do not write that we tested a product unless we did, and we do not invent a reader who used it. Official prices and refund rules are taken from the company’s own page and dated.

After you click

The merchant, or the network that tracks the commission, may set its own cookie and will process the visit under its own policy. We do not see your payment card or the details of your order. We may later see a total: clicks and conversions, not your name. The privacy policy covers that.

Questions

If a link’s relationship is unclear, write to hello@hanziheard.com with the URL.