Affiliate Disclosure

PocketVeil is free to read, and we fund it partly through affiliate links. When we link to some VPN providers and you go on to subscribe, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. This page explains exactly how that works and the rules that keep it from bending our advice.

How the links work

Outbound links to VPN providers we have a commercial relationship with are marked as affiliate links wherever they appear, and they carry a "sponsored nofollow" attribute so search engines understand they're paid. Any affiliate button on the site is labelled as such right next to it. Some providers we mention — including ones we recommend — have no affiliate program, so those links earn us nothing. We think that mix is healthy.

What commission does not change

Commission never changes our rankings, verdicts, or which providers we warn against. We decide what to recommend first, then add links where a provider has a program — not the other way round. Two of our regular picks, Mullvad and Windscribe, run no affiliate program at all, so recommending them costs us money; we do it because they're good, and it's the clearest signal we can give that the advice comes first. We also decline to promote any free VPN we can't verify, because in this category a bad recommendation can genuinely harm a reader.

Prices and accuracy

VPN pricing changes frequently and varies by region and plan length, so any price on this site is a dated approximation with a "check current price" reminder — always confirm the current figure on the provider's own page before buying. If you spot something out of date or wrong, tell us and we'll fix it. We'd rather be corrected than be confidently inaccurate.