Independence Statement

CookieTelemetry does not accept affiliate commissions, paid placement or vendor approval of its findings. Until 24 September 2026 we were enrolled in the affiliate programmes of Termly, CookieYes, Complianz, Enzuzo and CookieHub. On 24 September 2026 we gave notice to end all five enrolments and removed every affiliate link from this site. CookieYes's programme terms set a 30-day contractual notice period, so that agreement ended on 24 October 2026. We earned $0 in commissions from any programme. We have received one free reviewer licence (Real Cookie Banner Pro, from devowl.io, on 5 October 2026); no money changed hands. Otherwise CookieTelemetry has no commercial relationship with any consent-management vendor. Vendors do not fund, review or approve our findings. We are building monitoring services for website operators; we do not sell to CMP vendors.

What changed, and when

Until 24 September 2026, CookieTelemetry was enrolled in five CMP vendor affiliate programmes: Termly (via Impact), CookieYes (via Impact), Complianz (via ReferralCandy), Enzuzo (via Tapfiliate) and CookieHub (direct). No commission was ever earned or paid under any of the five. On 24 September 2026 we gave formal notice to end all five programmes and, the same day, removed every affiliate link, tracking parameter andrel="sponsored" attribute from this site. CookieYes's terms (§12.3) specify that termination takes effect 30 days after the vendor receives our notice, so the CookieYes agreement ended on 24 October 2026. There were no CookieYes affiliate links on this site and no payments during that period.

How former affiliates are labelled

Wherever this site links to or shows a result for one of the five vendors, it carries a "Former affiliate" label with the date we gave notice and "$0 earned". For CookieYes the label also gives the date the agreement ended, 24 October 2026. Every other vendor's label states its relationship with us, including any free licence.

Why we ended them

CookieTelemetry measures whether consent-management vendors' own websites behave the way their marketing claims before a visitor makes a choice. An affiliate relationship with the vendors we measure is a structural conflict of interest, even when, as here, it produced no income. Independence is the product: a reader should be able to trust a result without checking whether we were paid to publish it.

What this means going forward

• Every vendor link on this site points to that vendor's own plain homepage, with rel="nofollow noopener", never a tracked or monetized destination.
• Outbound click counting, where enabled, records only which vendor, traffic channel and page type a click was on. It never depended on, and no longer touches, any affiliate identifier.
• Historical findings about the five former affiliates are disclosed with the affiliate relationship and its dates attached, not scrubbed from the record.
• We now profit only if we find and report real issues to potential monitoring customers. That is a different incentive, and we disclose it too. See the conflict-of-interest section of our methodology.
• We are building monitoring services for website operators; we do not sell to CMP vendors.

Not legal advice. This page is a factual disclosure of CookieTelemetry's own commercial relationships, not a legal opinion about any vendor's contract terms.