Affiliate Disclosure
Affiliate, Advertising & Commercial Disclosure 🩷
Choose A Life You Love is an independent Australian lifestyle publication, and yes ~ we are open to making money from the work we create and share here.
CALYL may earn money through affiliate or paid links, advertising, sponsored content, gifted products or experiences, brand partnerships, ambassador relationships, licensing, commissions, our own products and services, and other commercial collaborations.
But there is one rule underneath all of it:
Love leads. ❤️
A commercial relationship cannot buy the words “I love <whatever we are currently loving!!>.”
If we love something and there is an opportunity to earn money from sharing it, wonderful.
If we love something and there isn't an affiliate program, advertiser, sponsorship or way to make a cent from sharing it, it is still our choice to share it anyway.
And if someone offers to pay us to say we love something we don't?
We won't.
Love comes first.
The commercial opportunity follows.
How CALYL May Make Money 💕
As CALYL grows, you may see several different kinds of commercial relationships across the publication.
Paid & Affiliate Links
Some links on CALYL may be affiliate or paid links.
If you choose to follow one of these links and make a purchase, CALYL may receive a commission or other payment, generally at no additional cost to you.
Using one of our links is always your choice.
You can use the link, search for the product yourself, buy it somewhere else, borrow it, find an alternative or decide you don't want it at all.
Where affiliate or paid links appear, we'll clearly disclose the relationship so readers understand when CALYL may benefit financially.
CALYL also participates in the Amazon Associates Program.
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
Sponsored Content & Paid Partnerships
Sometimes CALYL may work with a brand, business, maker or organisation on sponsored content or a paid partnership.
That means CALYL has received payment or another commercial benefit in connection with the content.
Sponsored or paid partnerships will be clearly identified alongside the relevant content.
Payment may support the creation of the work.
It does not purchase our opinion or our love.
Advertising
CALYL may accept paid advertising.
Advertisements may appear alongside our editorial content, but advertising does not determine what CALYL chooses to love, make, write about or share.
Paid advertisements will be identifiable as advertising.
Gifted Products & Experiences 🎁
Sometimes a product, service, meal, stay, ticket, trip, experience or other item of value may be gifted or provided to CALYL without charge.
If something has been gifted and we choose to share it, we'll clearly disclose that relationship.
Being given something does not guarantee coverage, a positive review or the words “I love this.”
Ambassador & Brand Relationships
CALYL may enter longer-term relationships with brands, makers or organisations we genuinely enjoy working with.
These relationships may include payment, products, experiences, affiliate commissions or other benefits.
We'll clearly disclose relevant commercial relationships alongside the content.
CALYL Products & Services
CALYL creates and sells its own work.
This may include books, journals, digital products, creative work, services, licensed content and other things we make in the future.
Purchases of CALYL products directly support the publication and the work we create here.
Licensing, Commissions & Collaborations
CALYL may also earn money by licensing original work, accepting commissions, creating content, collaborating with other people or businesses, or through other commercial arrangements that develop as the publication grows.
Where a commercial relationship could reasonably affect how you understand something you're reading, watching or viewing, we'll clearly disclose it.
Sometimes There Is No Commercial Relationship At All 🩷
This matters too.
Not everything you see on CALYL makes money.
Far from it.
A lot of times we share something simply because we love it.
A local café.
A book.
A photograph.
A beautiful object.
A tiny maker.
A place we visited.
A glass of water.
A ridiculous car.
A giraffe. 🦒
There doesn't need to be a commercial opportunity attached to something for it to belong here.
Love is always enough.
Your Choice, Always 🫶
A recommendation on CALYL is never an instruction to buy something.
Something can be loved here without you loving it too.
You can scroll past.
Choose an alternative.
Find it somewhere else.
Make your own.
Spend nothing.
Or simply enjoy knowing it exists.
The choice remains yours.
Our Commercial Promise ❤️
CALYL is open to making money.
We're open to advertising.
We're open to affiliate relationships.
We're open to sponsorships, gifts, partnerships, collaborations and opportunities we haven't even thought of yet.
We'd love this publication to grow into a financially sustainable body of work...because omg of course we would love to be paid to do what we love! ❤️
But however CALYL grows, the order matters.
We don't find something to love because someone will pay us.
We find something we love — and if an appropriate commercial opportunity follows, then we're open to it.
That's the difference.
At Choose A Life You Love,
love leads.
With love, always.
CALYL x
Keep Exploring 🩷🩵💛💜
Now that you know how the commercial side works, there's nothing else you need to do.
Head back to CALYL, have a scroll and see what you find.
Some things will make us money.
Some things won't.
But either way it doesn't matter, because we are choosing a life we love. ❤️