Affiliate Disclosure
Last updated: April 27, 2026.
ThatCleanChef may have affiliate relationships with cookware brands, kitchen-tool retailers, and dietitian-vetted food / supplement vendors (note: no such relationships are currently active as of the date below). This disclosure explains how affiliate links are labelled when they exist, how recommendations are made, and your rights as a reader.
1. What an affiliate link is
An affiliate link is a tracked URL. If you click it and buy from the merchant, the merchant pays ThatCleanChef a small commission, at no extra cost to you. Affiliate commissions help fund recipe testing, dietitian review, and original photography.
2. How disclosure looks
Per the April 2026 EU compliance audit, every affiliate link on ThatCleanChef carries a country-appropriate label pill rendered in the local language. The labels we use are:
English, Sponsored
German, Werbung
French, Publicité
Italian, Pubblicità
Spanish, Publicidad
Dutch, Advertentie
Polish, Reklama
Swedish, Annons
Portuguese, Publicidade
Japanese, 広告
Chinese, 广告
Arabic, إعلان
The label sits directly adjacent to (or wraps) the affiliate link. A repeat disclosure appears at the top of any recipe / round-up that contains affiliate links, before the product list.
3. How recommendations are made
Editorial independence is non-negotiable.
We recommend on the merits, nutrition density, ingredient quality, durability of cookware, nutrition density, not on commission rate.
We never accept payment for placement.
We never raise a product's ranking because its affiliate program pays better.
When we have to choose between two genuinely-tied products and only one has an affiliate program, we say so in the post and link the non-affiliate one too.
4. Programs we may use
When affiliate relationships exist, they are typically with:
Amazon Associates (cookware, kitchen tools).
ShareASale, Impact, Awin (cookware and dietitian-vetted food brands).
Direct relationships with selected vendors, disclosed per post.
ThatCleanChef does not participate in pharmaceutical, peptide, or GLP-1-vendor affiliate programs. Zero. Ever. Editorial standards forbid it, those products are prescription-only in most jurisdictions and a recipe site has no business steering patients toward them.
5. Why we're building a shop
Affiliate links are bridge revenue while we build something we control. The plan is a curated shop, cookware sets we've tested for years, the olive oils we cook from, recipe-bundle PDFs, branded printable meal-plan templates. When the shop opens, the affiliate links on this site swap to first-party links automatically (no recipe rewrites). Until then: every affiliate link on this site is labelled, every link uses `rel='sponsored nofollow'`, and revenue does not influence which recipes we recommend.
Sign up for the [owned-shop pre-launch waitlist](/) (footer signup on every page) and we'll only email when it actually opens.
6. Your rights
Affiliate links never compromise your privacy. The merchant sees only that the click came from ThatCleanChef, not who you are. We do not receive your name, address, or payment information.
You can use the site without ever clicking an affiliate link. Recipes are free. The Nutrition Ledger is free. Editorial review is free.
7. Contact
Affiliate or sponsorship questions: hello@thatcleanchef.com.