Last Updated: May 29, 2025
How We Stay Styled & Supported
You come to The Modes for curated insights, style advice, and the best recommendations across lifestyle, culture, and beyond. To keep delivering that quality content and exploring the ideas that matter to you, we sometimes use affiliate links. Here’s a straightforward look at how that works.
1. The Deal with Affiliate Links
Think of these as special links we use when we recommend or feature products, services, or brands we genuinely think you’ll find interesting or valuable. They’re a common way for online publications like ours to operate.
2. How It Works (Simply)
When you click on one of our affiliate links and then make a purchase or sign up for something on that third-party site, we may earn a small commission from the retailer or brand.
3. Does It Cost You Anything Extra?
Absolutely not. Clicking an affiliate link on The Modes never increases the price you pay for the item or service. The commission comes directly from the partner as a thank you for the referral. It’s a way you can support our work at no extra cost to you.
4. Why We Use Them
Quite simply, affiliate revenue helps keep The Modes running. It funds the creation of the content you love – the deep dives, the trend reports, the interviews, the curated selections. It allows us to invest in our team and the quality of what we do.
5. Our Editorial Integrity: Non-Negotiable
This is paramount. Our editorial decisions are made independently by our editors and contributors.
Affiliate relationships have zero influence on whether a product, service, or brand is featured on The Modes. We only select things based on their merit, relevance to our audience, and alignment with our editorial standards and taste.
The potential to earn a commission does not impact what we say about a recommendation – our reviews and opinions are honest and based on genuine assessment.
Our commitment is always to you, the reader, first.
6. Spotting Affiliate Links
We believe in being transparent. While this policy serves as a general disclosure for the entire site, you will typically see a note or indicator [e.g., “We may earn a commission if you buy through links on this page,” or a specific icon] in articles that contain affiliate links.
7. Clicking Away: External Sites
When you click an affiliate link, you’re heading to a third-party website. Just a heads-up: we don’t control their content, their privacy practices, or the service you receive from them. We encourage you to check their terms and policies directly.
8. Policy Updates
We may update this policy as needed. Any changes will be posted here with a revised “Last Updated” date.
9. Questions?
Got questions about how we use affiliate links? Get in touch at: contact@themodes.com