How we stay neutral
Our promise
Commission never affects ranking. Polytaste ranks options only on how well they fit your taste and what you asked for. What a shop pays us, or whether it pays us at all, plays no part.
How we make money
Polytaste is free for you. When a ranking includes a link to buy, and you buy through it, the shop may pay us a commission. We're starting with coffee and fragrance. There are no commission links for wine or beer for now. In the early beta there are no commission links at all yet; when they arrive, every safeguard below applies from day one.
How we keep money out of the ranking
- Ranking happens first, and finishes. Your options are put in order before any link exists.
- Two separate systems. Commission information lives in its own database. The code that ranks can't read it, and the code that adds links can't read your taste. The link system receives only product identifiers and a request ID, never who you are.
- Choosing the shop. When a product is sold in several places, we pick a shop that ships to you and has it in stock, then the best price. Never the highest commission.
- No paid placement. No sponsored spots, no “featured brands”, no paying to rank higher. Brands can't buy their way into your results.
- Same order, links or not. An automatic test runs on every change: it ranks the same options with commission links switched on and off, and fails if the order differs by even one place.
- We keep a record. For every ranking we log the order before any link was added, so the promise can be checked after the fact.
Your data and brands
We never sell your data or share insights about you, or about our users in general, with brands or shops. Data from your inbox is never used to choose which shops we partner with. See the privacy policy.
Spotted something that looks off?
If a ranking ever looks like it favours a shop over your taste, tell us at privacy@polytaste.ai. We'll look into it and tell you what we found.