Affiliate Disclaimer

What Are Affiliate Links?

An affiliate link is a special URL that contains a tracking code linking your visit to ColorTile.net. When you click an affiliate link on our site and subsequently make a purchase from the linked retailer, we may receive a small commission from that retailer.

The commission is paid by the retailer, not by you. Your purchase price is exactly the same whether you click an affiliate link or navigate to the retailer's site directly.

How to Identify Affiliate Links

On ColorTile.net, affiliate links appear in the following contexts:

• Store reviews on our Where to Buy Colored Tiles page — all store links are affiliate links
• Product recommendations within articles — these are clearly labeled as affiliate links
• Any link accompanied by the text "(affiliate link)" or inside a section marked with our affiliate disclosure banner

All affiliate links on this site use rel="sponsored"in the HTML code, which is how we disclose affiliate relationships to search engines per Google's guidelines.

FTC Compliance

In compliance with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) guidelines (16 CFR Part 255), we disclose our material connection to companies whose products and services we link to through affiliate programs.

The FTC requires that any "material connection" between an endorser and a company — including receiving compensation such as affiliate commissions — must be clearly disclosed to consumers. This page and the inline disclosures on relevant pages fulfill this requirement.

Do Affiliate Relationships Influence Our Recommendations?

No. ColorTile.net maintains strict editorial independence. Our recommendations, rankings, and reviews are based on genuine quality assessment — factors including selection breadth, price competitiveness, dye lot transparency, sample availability, shipping quality, and customer service.

Stores are not ranked by commission rate. Stores that pay higher commissions do not receive preferential placement. We include honest assessments of limitations alongside advantages for every store we review.

If we find a tile resource that is excellent for our readers but does not offer an affiliate program, we will still link to it and recommend it. The value to our readers comes first.

Affiliate Programs We Participate In

We participate in affiliate programs operated by tile retailers and home improvement stores. These programs are governed by the respective retailer's affiliate terms and conditions. The specific affiliate programs we participate in may change over time.

Questions

If you have questions about our affiliate relationships or editorial process, please contact us. We are committed to transparency and will respond to all reasonable inquiries.