The short version: when you buy through some links on FORMUSCOPE, the retailer may pay us a commission. You pay the same price. It never changes a grade, and brands can’t pay us for anything.
Affiliate links
FORMUSCOPE is free to read. We pay for research, hosting and the products we buy for testing through affiliate links: links to retailers that let the retailer pay us a small commission if you buy something after clicking.
- You don’t pay more. The commission comes out of the retailer’s margin, not your price.
- We don’t see who you are. Retailers report sales and commissions to us in aggregate. We never receive your name, address or payment details.
- Links are marked. Every affiliate link on the site is tagged as sponsored in the page code, and every page with affiliate links opens with a disclosure that links to this page.
Amazon Associates
As an Amazon Associate, FORMUSCOPE earns from qualifying purchases.
When you click an Amazon link on our site, Amazon uses a cookie to credit the purchase to us. That applies to qualifying purchases you make on Amazon for a limited time afterward, not only the product we linked. Amazon sets the commission rates, which vary by category. They never factor into our grades.
Other retailers
We may also link to brand stores and other retailers. Some of those links pay a commission through the retailer’s own affiliate program or an affiliate network. Others are plain links that earn us nothing. We link to wherever the product is sold reliably, whether or not it pays. When we join a new affiliate program, we’ll list it here.
What money never changes
- Grades come first. We set every Scope Grade before any buy links are added. The Scope Grade methodology is public, so you can check the reasoning.
- No buy links on D or F products. If we don’t think the evidence supports a product’s claims, we don’t try to sell it to you.
- No sponsored content. We don’t publish paid posts, paid placements or “partner” reviews, and brands can’t pay for coverage, a ranking or a re-grade.
- No free products. We don’t accept PR samples, gifts or paid trips. When we test in hand, we buy at retail.
- No brand approval. Brands don’t see our work before it’s published.
We don’t run display ads today. If that ever changes, we’ll update this page before any ad appears.
Why we tell you this
Because you should know who benefits when you click. The US Federal Trade Commission’s Endorsement Guides require clear disclosure of material connections between publishers and the products they write about. We go further than the minimum: our disclosure sits at the top of every page with affiliate links, not buried in a footer.
Questions? Email support@formuscope.com.
Last updated November 13, 2026.