Disclosure
Where the money comes from, which pages it touches, and the structural reason it cannot reach the rest.
The short version
There are two revenue channels, and both are fenced off from the editorial. Affiliate links appear on experience pages only. Sponsorship appears insideseasonal issues only, clearly labelled. Everything else — space profiles, town pages, guides, field reports, advocacy notes — carries no commercial relationship of any kind.
What that rules out
No space can pay to be covered, to be covered more favourably, or to be covered sooner. There are no featured listings and no rankings, so there is nothing to buy a position in. Coverage is decided by a space existing and being checkable.
If a space ever declines to answer a question, that fact goes on its page. If one asks for a page to be changed, the change happens only if the page was wrong.
Affiliate links, specifically
Experience pages — a boat trip, a course, a guided walk — may link to an operator through an affiliate link. If you book through one, this site earns a commission and you pay no more than you otherwise would.
The rules on top of that:
- Every affiliate link is labelled on the page it appears on. There are no unmarked ones.
- The commission never decides what is covered. Things without any affiliate programme are covered on the same terms, and there are more of those than not.
- It never decides how something is described. An experience that is only worth it out of season is described that way, commission or no commission.
Seasonal issues
The quarterly seasonal issues are the other channel. Relevant businesses can place clearly labelled sponsored content inside one. That sponsorship buys space in the issue and nothing else: it has no effect on space profiles, town pages or guides, and a sponsor gets no say in what the rest of the issue says about anything.
No seasonal issue has been published yet. This section describes how it will work when one is.
What this site never does
- Accept payment to remove, soften or suppress a published page.
- Run sponsored content dressed as editorial. Sponsorship is labelled, every time.
- Sell or share the newsletter list.
- Put spaces in an order of merit, paid or otherwise.
- Print what a stay costs. Rates, fees and deposits are the operator's to publish.
Corrections
If a commercial relationship should be marked on a page and is not, that is a mistake worth reporting. Write to hello@coliving-costa-blanca.com. Corrections are made on the page, with the date changed, rather than quietly.