Editorial Policy & Funding Disclosure
Quick answer
Honest Review Hub earns compensation when readers click certain tracked links and make a purchase — at no extra cost to the reader. Compensation never affects our scores, our rankings, or whether we recommend a product. The rules below are the site's binding editorial contract, and the red-flag summary discloses exactly what we found wrong with the product we review most.
Applies to: every page on this site — this is the full disclosure that the short notices on article pages link to.
Part A — Funding disclosure
1. How we make money
Honest Review Hub earns compensation when readers click certain links on our site and make a purchase. We call these tracked links. Clicking one costs you nothing extra — the retailer pays us a percentage of the sale.
We say this plainly and up front, because it's the relationship that matters: a retailer pays us if our readers buy. Everything below explains why that doesn't change what you read.
2. How tracking works
Our links pass through our own redirect address and carry a tracking code that tells the retailer which page sent you. That's the only purpose of the code — it identifies the referring page, nothing about you. The code carries no personal data.
3. What compensation doesn't do
Compensation never affects our scores, our rankings, or whether we recommend a product. The proof is on our own site: our most-reviewed product scores 3/10 on our trust scale — we publish that score and we still link to the product, because the assessment (not the compensation) decides what a reader sees.
If a product can't survive its own review, you'll read that here first. No retailer can pay for a better score, and no retailer previews or approves our content before publication.
4. Where you'll see the disclosure
Every page that can lead to compensation carries a short disclosure notice linking to this page. The notices appear above the fold, before any tracked link or quiz entry — never buried in the footer.
Our quiz results panel states the retail relationship before showing any recommendation button, so the funding context always comes first.
5. The red-flag summary: Derila Ergo
Our primary reviewed product, Derila Ergo: our research found recurring customer complaints about refund refusals, aggressive upsell tactics (countdown timers, pre-selected add-ons) corroborated by an independent consumer organization, and unclear corporate identity across multiple entities. We disclose all of this on every review page that mentions the product.
We do not present it as a medical device, and we never suggest any pillow treats sleep apnea or any medical condition. The vendor's own marketing statistics (including "82%"-style claims) are described as vendor claims, never repeated as our findings. This product is included in our reviews under the operator's standing order of proceed-with-disclosure: publish everything, hide nothing.
Part B — Editorial independence
- Scores and rankings cannot be bought. No product company pays for placement, and none exists as an advertiser on this model.
- No pre-publication review by product companies. What you read is what our research team wrote.
- Corrections trigger re-review. Serious errors get dated correction notes on the page; a serious error in a scored review triggers a re-review of the score itself.
We run no display-ad sales to product companies. If programmatic ads are ever enabled on this site, they are sold by the ad network, not by us, and they cannot buy placement in our reviews — stated conservatively, because the model doesn't exist yet.
Part C — Content standards
- Every factual claim traces to a cited source. Unsourced claims are labeled as convention or consensus — or cut.
- No invented experts, testimonials, statistics, or "lab tests." A previous version of this site used a fabricated expert persona; it was retired by policy. See /about/ for the full correction.
- Brand-term policy. Product names appear in body copy only — never engineered into titles, URLs, headers, footers, or schema to capture brand searches.
- Medical-information boundary. Our content explains research. It never diagnoses, never prescribes, and never promises outcomes.
- Vendor claims are never our claims. Marketing statistics, personas, and stories supplied by retailers are mined for product facts only, labeled as vendor statements when described.
Part D — Retail compliance (non-negotiable)
The retail partner's program terms are binding on this site — breach risks suspension and loss of payouts. These rules sit above every other consideration on this page:
- No brand bidding, ever. We never use the Derila Ergo brand (or any brand) keywords in paid campaigns, including Performance Max. This site runs organic content; if paid traffic is ever tested, brand terms are excluded by policy.
- No brand-name domains. We never buy, register, or redirect from domains containing a brand name or variations.
- No brand design elements. We never use a brand's logos, trade dress, or design elements on our pages.
- We never imply we are the official site. Our copy never suggests Honest Review Hub is a brand's official website, an official partner page, or endorsed by a brand.
- No brand name in header or footer. The brand name appears only in article body copy and the Quiz Results Panel — never in the site header, footer, navigation, titles, URLs, or schema.
Advertising angles are not editorial policy. The retail partner's own creatives and angles (including mouth-taping / "stop mouth breathing" angles) are advertising for their funnel — they never override our editorial or safety standards. Our mouth-taping coverage stays safety-first per Rhee 2025 (thin evidence plus an asphyxiation-risk warning), regardless of what the retailer promotes.
What we don't do
- Paid placements or sponsored rankings. Money never buys position or score.
- Invented experts, testimonials, or statistics. Every name, quote, and number is real and cited.
- Fear-based selling. Risks are explained from the evidence, never exaggerated to move product.
- Health-outcome promises. We describe what research found; we never promise a product will fix, cure, or treat anything.
- Fake urgency or scarcity. No countdown timers, no "today only," no invented stock pressure.
- Fabricated news framing or fake comment threads. What advertorials do, we don't.
- Selling or sharing your personal data. See our privacy policy.
Last reviewed: 2026-11-01 by Honest Review Hub Editorial Team
How this page was made
This page combines the site's funding model and editorial rules from the project's binding disclosure standards and vendor-materials verdict — the red-flag findings, the retail-program compliance terms, and the "what we don't do" list derived from documented advertorial tactics. It makes no health claims and cites no external studies; it is the site's trust contract, written in plain language.
The disclosure wording was drafted to the strictest plain-language standard we can hold — the funding relationship stated openly, up front, with nothing buried.