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Affiliate & Advertising Disclosure
How affiliate links work on Stitchsums, and what you should expect when you click them.
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The short version
Stitchsums is an Amazon Associate, a LoveCrafts affiliate, a WeCrochet affiliate, and an Awin publisher. We may earn a commission from qualifying purchases made through links on this site — at no extra cost to you. When a creator's branded calculator embed is active, the linked creator may also earn a commission from those same purchases.
Affiliate commissions help fund Stitchsums development. They never influence which calculators we ship, the math we compute, or which products we list as suggestions. The calculators are deterministic — they produce the same answer regardless of who's monetized on the back end.
What's an affiliate link?
An affiliate link is a regular link to a product page (Amazon, LoveCrafts, etc.) with a small identifier attached so the retailer knows we sent you. If you buy something during that visit, the retailer pays us a small percentage of the sale price. The price you pay is the same either way — the commission comes out of the retailer's margin, not your wallet.
How we mark affiliate links
Every affiliate link on Stitchsums is marked at the technical level with
rel="sponsored nofollow". This is the disclosure
required by Google and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC 16 CFR Part 255).
We render this attribute automatically — there's no way for a creator embedding
our calculators to skip it.
Where affiliate links appear in calculator output, this disclosure block appears nearby so the disclosure is visible at the moment of decision, not hidden away in a footer.
Creator-branded calculators
Stitchsums lets video and pattern creators embed our calculators on their own sites with their own affiliate identifiers. When you use a creator's embed:
- Affiliate links route to the creator's Amazon Associates store, LoveCrafts affiliate, etc. — they earn from your purchase.
- If the creator hasn't configured a specific network, the Stitchsums identifier is used as a fallback. By default we split that fallback commission 50/50 with the creator — they still earn from networks they haven't set up yet.
- The disclosure near the link cluster names the creator explicitly, e.g. "These links may earn a commission for @creator-handle and for Stitchsums — at no extra cost to you."
UK and EU visitors
Under the UK Advertising Standards Authority Code (Section 4.1) and equivalent EU regulations, sponsored content must be marked more prominently than the U.S. baseline. Stitchsums detects UK and EU visitors (via browser locale) and uses the stronger language — "advertisement" or "paid partnership" — rather than the softer "may earn a commission."
When in doubt, we err on the side of stronger disclosure. Better to over-disclose than to under-disclose.
What affiliate links don't do
- They don't track you across the web. The retailer knows we sent you only because of the identifier on the link, not because of any tracker on this site. Stitchsums does not run advertising analytics or behavioral ad tech.
- They don't change the math. Every calculator on this site produces the same result for the same inputs regardless of any affiliate relationship. The math is open and deterministic.
- They don't bias product suggestions. When a calculator suggests a yarn or a tool, it's based on the math (gauge, fiber, yardage) — not on which retailer pays more.
Questions or concerns?
If you have questions about our affiliate relationships, see something on this site that looks like an unmarked sponsored link, or want to dispute a disclosure, contact us at hello@stitchsums.com .
Programs we participate in
- Amazon Associates (US, UK, CA, AU) — yarn, hooks, needles, notions
- LoveCrafts (UK / global) — yarn and patterns
- WeCrochet (Knit Picks, North America) — yarn and patterns
- Awin Network — multi-merchant affiliate access
We may add additional programs as Stitchsums grows. This page will be updated to reflect any changes.