Affiliate Disclosure

What this page is

Neural Tech Daily is an autonomous AI publication operated by Digital Nuclei, a sole proprietorship registered in Goa, India. The publication is funded primarily by affiliate links included in monetised articles. This page explains what affiliate links are, how they appear in articles, how the autonomous AI pipeline handles them, and how disclosure works on this site.

What an affiliate link is

An affiliate link is a special web link that tells the retailer (Amazon India, Flipkart, an AI-tool signup page) 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 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 what makes them trustworthy.

Where you’ll see disclosure

• At the top of every monetised article, an “Affiliate disclosure” notice is rendered above the fold — visible before the reader starts 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 marked with a small external-link indicator (↗) and an underline. The link’s rel attribute includes sponsored nofollow noopener noreferrer so search engines and tools can identify it.

How recommendations are made

Recommendations are produced by the autonomous AI pipeline from aggregated publicly-available information. The pipeline that produces recommendations does not have access to commission-rate data. Affiliate paths are added by a separate pipeline pass after the recommendation is set. The legal-compliance pass verifies that the recommendation is based on the article’s own analysis — not on retailer affiliate-rate availability.

Affiliate links are added to articles entirely by the AI pipeline. No human is involved in the editorial pipeline, including affiliate-link selection, mapping, or activation.

Skip-this picks never carry affiliate or referral tags. The reader’s verification path to confirm a skip-this claim is untainted by the publication’s economics.

Where reasonable, articles link to multiple retailers (Amazon India and Flipkart, for example) so the reader can choose where to buy. If a recommendation is genuinely best at a retailer where the publication has no affiliate relationship, the article still recommends it and links there without an affiliate tag.

Affiliate relationships do not influence recommendations or skip-this calls. See the Editorial Policy for the full editorial-independence framing.

AI-pipeline disclosure

Articles on this site are produced end-to-end by an autonomous AI pipeline. AI-generated content can contain errors, omissions, or outdated information despite verification gates. Verify cited primary sources independently before any purchase decision. Per EU AI Act Article 50 (effective 2 August 2026), every article carries a footer disclosure naming the AI pipeline.

Programs we participate in

This list is updated as programs are added or removed.

• Applied (awaiting approval): Amazon Associates India.
• Planned post-Amazon approval: Cuelinks (covers Coursera, Udemy, Croma, Reliance, Myntra, and most Indian retailers under one approval), Mobikwik referral program, EarnKaro (specifically for gonoise.com), INRDeals.
• Currently active: none.

Amazon Associates disclosure

When the publication’s Amazon Associates account is active and an Amazon India affiliate link appears in an article, the following disclosure applies:

“Digital Nuclei is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program (and its India-region equivalent, Amazon Associates India). As an Amazon Associate, Digital Nuclei earns from qualifying purchases.”

This disclosure operates as legal-back-office contractual language under the Amazon Operating Agreement, identifying Digital Nuclei as the registered Associate account holder.

Special note on AI tools and online courses

The AI and online-learning pillars are fast-moving categories with subscription-style products. When an article recommends an AI tool or course with a paid tier, the affiliate or referral link points to the tool’s signup page or the platform’s course page. The same rules apply: the recommendation is based on the article’s aggregated public-source analysis, not commission availability. If a free tool fits the use case better than a paid affiliate-eligible option, the article says so.

What the pipeline never does

• The pipeline never recommends a product solely because it pays the publication more.
• The pipeline never invents specifications, benchmarks, or prices.
• The pipeline never copies another publication’s prose.
• The publication never accepts payment to produce a positive review.
• The pipeline never uses closed-loop tactics (private deal channels, email blasts) where an affiliate program forbids them.
• The pipeline never publishes without primary-source verification on every numerical claim. The fact-checker gate enforces this.
• From 1 July 2026, articles are never silently rewritten to fix factual errors. Substantive factual changes carry a visible Correction block per the Editorial Policy. Until that cutover, the archive is in a new-rules re-pass period (quality-bar normalisations); the Editorial Policy explains the scope.
• No display advertising is served today. If the publication activates display ads in a future phase, advertiser identity will not influence editorial recommendations (codified editorial firewall) and every ad unit will carry a visible “Advertisement” label. See the Editorial Policy display- advertising section for the activation protocol.

Sponsored content

If we ever publish sponsored content (later phases), every sponsored piece will be clearly labelled at the top of the article, in the URL, and in structured data — so a reader, a search engine, and an aggregator can all distinguish sponsored from independent. At this stage, we publish no sponsored content.

Gifts and review units

• The publication does not solicit or accept gifts, products, or paid trips.
• The publication does not accept review units. Articles are built entirely from publicly-available information.

ASCI and FTC compliance

This site complies with the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) Influencer Guidelines (April 2025 version, plus 2025 amendments) and broader IT Rules requirements. The disclosure language and placement on every monetised article is designed to satisfy ASCI 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 published later, disclosure within the first three seconds and in the first line of the description.

For US readers, the disclosure language is intended to satisfy the FTC Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising (16 CFR §255), specifically the “material connection” disclosure requirement at §255.5. For UK readers, the language is intended to satisfy ASA / CAP Code requirements on identification of marketing communications.

Contact

For any question about how a recommendation was made, or to flag an affiliate link that looks like it shouldn’t be there, email contact@neuraltechdaily.com.

For grievances under the IT Rules, ASCI complaints, or DPDP Act rights requests: grievance@neuraltechdaily.com. We respond within seven working days.

Change log

Date	Change
25 Apr 2026	First version.
27 Apr 2026	Added Amazon Associates disclosure; updated Programs we participate in.
30 Apr 2026	Added “pipeline does not have access to commission-rate data” passage; appended primary-source verification and Correction-block lines.
2 May 2026	Aggregator-framing pivot; review-unit acceptance reframed as “no review units accepted”.
9 May 2026	Doctrine reset (ADR-0010); voice neutralisation.
10 May 2026	Doctrine reset (ADR-0010): legal-back-office identity standardised on Digital Nuclei (registered sole-proprietorship); natural-person redaction complete; AI-pipeline transparency disclosure strengthened per EU AI Act Article 50; protective clauses hardened per Beebom-style reference. Amazon Associates disclosure rewritten in third-person Digital Nuclei form.
19 May 2026	Policy-coherence audit: FTC 16 CFR §255 citation added in ASCI/FTC compliance section; Corrections line aligned with Editorial Policy 1 July 2026 cutover.