Advertising and affiliate disclosure
As of the date at the foot of this page, this site carries no advertising, no
affiliate links and no paid placements, and earns nothing from any venue or booking platform. You can
check that yourself: view the source of any page and search for rel="sponsored". The only
match on the whole site is the sentence you are reading, and there are no third-party scripts of any kind to serve an advert with.
Why say so rather than say nothing
A disclosure page that describes revenue the site does not have is the same failure this publication exists to correct — a page stating something that is not there. So this one states the current position, and keeps the rules below as a standing commitment for the day it changes. If it does change, this page is updated before the first advert or affiliate link appears, and the change is dated in the corrections log.
The rules, if this ever changes
- Affiliate links. Any link that could earn a commission will carry
rel="sponsored"and sit inside a block labelled as a booking link. You would pay the same price either way. A link would only appear where booking ahead is genuinely how the venue works. - Display advertising. Any advert would be labelled, and the cookies notice would be updated first to describe exactly what it sets. Advertisers would have no say in editorial content and no advance sight of it.
- Paid placements. Any paid block would be labelled Sponsored in plain language at the top. It would never change a verified fact and never buy the removal of unfavourable information. A venue asking us to delete an accurate detail as a condition of payment would be declined.
What money would not buy
- A place in a list, or a better position in one.
- The removal or softening of an accurate fact.
- Editorial approval of a page before publication.
The sourcing rules that govern every figure on this site are set out in the editorial policy, and they do not change with the funding model.