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What this page is

Neural Tech Daily publishes reviews, comparisons, and buying guides about consumer technology and AI — laptops, smartphones, audio, wearables, smart-home devices, AI tools, AI news, online courses, and adjacent categories. We make money primarily from affiliate links in our articles. This page explains what that means and how it affects what you read on the site.

An affiliate link is a special web link that tells the retailer (for example, Amazon India or Flipkart) that you arrived at their page from our site. If you then buy something within their session window, the retailer pays us a small commission. You pay the same price you would pay otherwise. The cost of the commission is borne by the retailer, not by you.

Affiliate links are how a lot of the internet’s review and buying-guide content gets paid for. We disclose them because disclosure is how you trust them.

Where you’ll see disclosure

  • At the top of every article that contains affiliate links, there’s an “Affiliate disclosure” notice — visible before you start reading the recommendation.
  • At the bottom of every page of the site, the footer carries the same disclosure.
  • Each affiliate link in the body of an article is styled to make it clear it takes you off-site to a retailer.

How recommendations are made

We choose products based on their merits. We do not let commission rates decide what we recommend. A laptop that earns us 1% on Amazon and a laptop that earns us 3.5% on Amazon get ranked the same way: by how good they are for the reader’s described use case.

Where reasonable, we link to multiple retailers (e.g., Amazon India and Flipkart) so you can choose where to buy. If a recommendation is genuinely best at a retailer where we have no affiliate relationship, we still recommend it and link there without an affiliate tag.

Programs we participate in

This list is updated as programs are added or removed.

  • We are currently applying to Amazon Associates India. Other programs (Cuelinks, Coursera via Impact, Udemy via Cuelinks, Flipkart Affiliate) will be added here as we are approved.

Special note on AI tools

The AI pillar is a fast-moving category with subscription-style products. When we recommend an AI tool with a paid tier, the affiliate link sends you to the tool’s signup page. The same rules apply: we recommend tools that work for the reader’s use case, not whichever pays us most. If a free tool serves you better than the paid affiliate-eligible option, we’ll say so.

What we never do

  • We never recommend a product solely because it pays us more.
  • We never invent specifications, benchmarks, or prices.
  • We never copy another publication’s prose.
  • We never accept payment to write a positive review.
  • We never use closed-loop tactics (private deal channels, email blasts) when an affiliate program forbids them.

If we ever publish sponsored content (later phases), every sponsored piece will be clearly labelled at the top, in the URL, and in the article schema — so a reader, a search engine, and an aggregator can all tell sponsored from independent.

At this stage, we publish no sponsored content.

Gifts and review units

  • We do not solicit gifts, products, or paid trips.
  • If a brand offers a review unit, we evaluate case-by-case under our Editorial Policy. If we accept, we disclose it on the article (“Review unit provided by <brand>”).
  • A review unit changes nothing about the editorial process or the editor’s pass/fail bar.

Compliance

This site complies with the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) Influencer Guidelines (April 2025 version, plus 2025 amendments) and the broader IT Rules to the best of our ability. The disclosure language and placement on every monetised piece is designed to satisfy ASCI’s requirements:

  • Disclosure visible above the fold (“Clear and Conspicuous”).
  • Disclosure in the main content, not buried in a comment or a hashtag.
  • For any video we publish later, disclosure within the first three seconds and in the first line of the description.

For US/UK readers (relevant once we expand), the language is also intended to satisfy FTC “material connection” guidelines.

Contact

If you have a question about how a recommendation was made, or spot an affiliate link that looks like it shouldn’t be there, email contact@neuraltechdaily.com.