Affiliate disclosure
Version 1.0. Effective [EFFECTIVE_DATE].
The short notice
This one goes next to every shopping list, and in the help page. It is the words the app shows.
We may earn a commission when you buy through a link here. It costs you nothing extra. It never changes what search shows or what the assistant picks. How this works
Wording rules:
- Show it next to the shopping list, and on the product card near the buy button. Not in a footer.
- Label a buy link with the words “Buy at {store}” and a small caption “Partner link”. In German, “Partnerlink”. The caption is visible, not in a tooltip.
- A link with no commission has no caption.
- Keep the wording as it is. Change layout, not words.
The long text (for the page)
What plintus does with links
plintus shows products from stores. We do not sell products. When you press a buy link, you go to the store’s site. The store sells the product and ships it.
Many stores have partner programs, run by networks such as Awin, Adtraction, Tradedoubler, Daisycon, Webgains and impact.com, or by the store itself. When a link is a partner link and you buy within the time the program sets, the store pays us a commission. A typical rate is 5 to 10 percent of the order. It is paid by the store, not by you. The price you pay is the same as without the link.
Where a store has no program, we still link to it, and we earn nothing.
What the commission does not change
- Search order. A commission never changes what search shows, or in what order. Stores that pay us do not rank higher.
- The assistant. The assistant picks products by your request, your room, your budget and whether they fit. It does not know which stores pay us a commission.
- Prices. The price in plintus is the store’s price on the date shown. It has nothing added for us.
- Paid placement. We do not sell placement. No store pays to be shown first.
How search orders results
Because the law asks us to say it, here are the main things that decide the order of results:
- How well the product matches your words.
- Whether it fits the room, when you search from a room.
- The filters you set: store, price, size.
- Whether it is in stock.
Items that are in stock and match come before items that are not. Nothing else counts. We may add a rule for speed or for quality of the 3D model. We would add it to this list first.
What we do not do
- We do not send your name or email to a store or network. The link has a random click number so the network can pay us. It tells them nothing about you.
- We do not hide that a link is a partner link.
- We do not make you use a link to see a price.
What the stores do
After you click, the store and the network set their own cookies and keep their own data. They follow their own privacy notices. We do not control them. cookies.md and privacy.md say more.
Prices, stock and sizes
They come from the stores. Each price shows the date we saw it, and has a mark when it is older than 7 days. The price at the store’s checkout wins. A 3D model says “exact model” or “approximate shape”. The store’s sizes win over the model’s.
If a store asks us to remove a product
If a store asks us to remove its products or models from plintus, we remove them. Write to legal@plintus.ai.
Questions
Network terms we must follow
Each program has its own rules. This list is for the lane that runs the links. It is not shown to users.
- Show the notice above near every partner link.
- Never bid on brand names, and never use a store’s name in a way the program forbids.
- Do not put links in emails if the program forbids it.
- Some programs limit sites outside the country of the program (for example a program for IKEA in Germany may limit sites based outside Germany). Check each program before we apply.
- Returns and cancelled orders can reduce or cancel the commission. That is normal and does not touch the user.