Affiliate disclosure: how we make money — and how we don't let it bend our recommendations.

We participate in the Amazon Associates affiliate program. Some direct-from-brand or authorized-retailer links are confirmed affiliate links; others are source or referral links used so buyers can check current seller, warranty, and availability details. The specific programs and retailer paths we currently track:

• Amazon Associates (US marketplace)
• Direct retailer paths in the massage-chair category, including themodernback.com, massagechairs.com, emassagechair.com, easymassagechair.com, and Human Touch direct
• Source-only or referral links for models where no confirmed affiliate path is configured

When you click a "Check direct price" or "Check on Amazon" link, we may receive a small commission if the destination is a confirmed affiliate path and you make a qualifying purchase. Your price does not change.

Above every comparison table and product card on this site, you'll see a disclosure banner that reads: "ChairClarity may earn from affiliate links. Recommendations are based on verified specs, warranty terms, seller info and buyer fit — never on commission rate."

The banner is template-level — it appears site-wide automatically, not page-by-page. This is intentional. We don't want a buyer to scroll past the disclosure once and not see it again.

Three rules:

1. Ranking is by buyer fit, never by commission. The scoring function in the fit calculator weights body, room, warranty, and use case. Commission rate is not an input.
2. We disclose when we don't have an affiliate program. Some chairs in our database route to "source-only" links — these earn us nothing and are included because the buyer comparison is incomplete without them.
3. We rule out low-quality affiliates. If a chair has high commission but thin warranty, vague seller-of-record, or sketchy support, we mark it "avoid" or "needs caveat" regardless of payout.

Affiliate and source links pass through our /go/[retailer]/[product] redirect handler. The redirect is non-indexable (search engines don't crawl affiliate URLs). Confirmed affiliate destinations may drop a retailer cookie; source or referral destinations may only receive UTM attribution.

We log outbound clicks to understand which recommendations buyers act on. Logged fields are documented in our privacy policy and never include personally identifiable information.

This disclosure satisfies the FTC's "Disclosures 101" guidance for affiliate relationships. If you find a disclosure that's unclear or missing, email corrections@chairclarity.com and we'll fix it.