Commercial relationships

The one thing we sell

An affiliate commission: you pay us when a reader signs up through a tracked link. In return your listing is grouped with other paying partners, which on most category boards means appearing above sellers who do not pay. That is the whole product.

Every row it applies to is labeled where the reader sees it, not in a footer. If you would rather not be disclosed as a paying partner, this is not the right register for you.

What is not for sale, at any price

• A score. The same scoring runs over all 577 sellers in the register. Paying changes nothing about how yours is computed.
• A review. Reviews are not a product. Every seller we track already has one, paying or not, and nobody buys their way into or out of the register.
• Removal of a finding. An FDA warning letter, a lapsed registration, a price that is not what the homepage says — none of it comes down because of a commercial relationship, and none of it goes up because of the absence of one.
• Approval before publication. We will check a specific fact with you by email. We will not send you the draft.
• Editorial dressed as advertising, or the reverse. No sponsored posts, no advertorial, no paid placement that is not labeled as paid.

What you should expect

Becoming a partner tends to mean more scrutiny rather than less, because a paid placement is the one we most need to be able to defend. Expect your prices to be re-read off your own checkout on a recorded date, your regulatory claims checked against the underlying registers, and any gap between your marketing page and your intake flow written down.

Several current partners carry critical findings in their reviews. That is the arrangement working, not a problem with it.

Getting in touch

Write to partnerships@glpwatchdog.org. Useful things to include: the network you run your program on, your standing price for each medication, and the name of the pharmacy that actually dispenses. That last one saves us a week and tells us a lot about how the conversation is going to go.

Before you write, our methodology, code of conduct and disclosure policy set out how this works in more detail. They are the terms, not marketing.