Affiliate disclosure

The short version

The Tick Almanac is a for-profit publication. Some pages contain affiliate links to Amazon, specialty pet retailers, hardware stores, and outdoor retailers. If you click an affiliate link and buy the product, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. We disclose this clearly on every page that contains affiliate links, before the first product link appears.

Where affiliate links appear

• Product comparison pages (e.g. tick removal tools, permethrin spray, yard treatment).
• Kit recommendations from the Build My Tick Kit quiz.
• Inline product mentions on prevention articles, after the safety guidance and editorial recommendation.

Where affiliate links never appear

This is structural, not a guideline. The site is built so that affiliate links cannot appear in:

• Disease, symptom, or clinician-routing copy.
• Emergency or poison-control sections.
• Pediatric or pregnancy safety copy.
• Veterinary warning sections (e.g. cat-household toxicity).
• FDA advisory or product recall content.
• The Latest Updates / Tick Watch section.

If you ever find an affiliate link in one of those contexts, that's a bug — please tell us at contact.

SKU-level pet preventives

For pet preventives (oral isoxazolines, topical spot-ons, collars), no specific brand or SKU recommendation appears anywhere on the site until our DVM and a veterinary parasitologist have completed dual signoff on the underlying Pet Health Data Row. Until then, pet pages route to "talk to your veterinarian" rather than to specific products. That gate is enforced at the data-model level, not at the editorial-discretion level.

FTC compliance

This disclosure exists because the U.S. Federal Trade Commission requires it when publishers earn commissions from product links. We use clear, unambiguous language; the disclosure appears above (not below) the first product link on each page. Affiliate links use rel="sponsored nofollow" per Google's webmaster guidelines.