How we make money

Weight Care Edit is free to read. Some provider links are affiliate links and may earn us a commission if you start care. Earning links and commercial placements are labeled. The policies below explain those relationships.

Who pays for the site

You don't. Readers never pay Weight Care Edit for anything. We don't sell subscriptions, memberships, reports or consultations, and we don't charge providers to be reviewed or scored.

Referral revenue may come from companies whose services we write about. Some of them run referral programs: when a reader follows a link from our site and then becomes a customer, the company may pay us a commission. We call the companies we have this kind of arrangement with partners.

What an affiliate link is

Some links on Weight Care Edit may earn affiliate revenue. The following rules apply. An affiliate link is an ordinary link to a company's website that also lets the company know the visit came from us. If you sign up or buy after following one, that company may pay us a fee. Many links on the site earn nothing at all, and you don't need to follow any link to use what we publish.

What it costs you

Nothing extra. A partner pays its commission out of its own revenue. Your price is the price the company charges anyone who arrives at its site, whether you come from our page, from a search engine or by typing the address yourself. If a company ever offered our readers a different price, we would say so where the price appears.

Where compensation can show up

Compensation can affect which companies appear in some places on the site and in what order. A few spots, such as suggestions placed beside or after an article, show only partners. Partners carry a "Partner" label wherever they appear, so you can always tell which companies have a commercial relationship with us.

Our scored lineups work differently. Every company in a lineup is ordered by its Care & cost score, highest first, and the score has no input for money. The one exception is an exact tie on both the total and the Price points, where a partner goes first. Above a lineup's list, a labeled box can show one or two partners from that same lineup; it's one of the partner-only spots described above. How we score shows the four checks and their weights.

What money never changes

Compensation never decides:

• A score. Each Care & cost score comes from the published checks and nothing else. A company can't pay for a higher score, and a partner's score is worked out the same way as anyone else's.
• An assessment. What we say about a company's price, care, pharmacy and clarity is drawn from its own public pages. Partners don't write, approve, edit or preview our coverage of them.
• What we leave in. Downsides, missing information and FDA warning letters stay on a partner's review exactly as they would on any other company's.
• Who gets covered. We write about companies that pay us nothing, because a reader comparing options needs to see them. Leaving them out would make the site less useful and less honest.

Nobody buys a review

We don't accept payment for reviews, rankings or articles, and we don't publish sponsored posts dressed as editorial. We don't accept free products, free prescriptions, gifts or trips from the companies we cover. When we need to see what a sign-up costs, we look at the company's public pages the way any visitor would.

We don't endorse providers

A review, a score or a place in a lineup is a description of what a company publishes, measured against our checks. It isn't an endorsement of that company, its clinicians, its pharmacy partners or its products, and it isn't a recommendation that any treatment is right for you. Only a licensed clinician who knows your history can make that call. Our health disclaimer says more.

Prices and details change

Companies change their prices, plans, promotions and policies, sometimes with no notice. We date our pages and refresh them, but what you see on a company's own site when you sign up is what counts. Check the current price and terms there before you pay. The terms of use cover this too.

Trademarks

Drug names, company names and logos belong to their owners. We use them to identify the products and services we write about. Their appearance on Weight Care Edit doesn't mean their owners sponsor or approve the site.

Following FTC rules

The Federal Trade Commission's Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising ask publishers to tell readers plainly when they may be paid. We do that in three ways:

• this page, linked from every page's footer;
• a short note near the top of pages that carry partner links, before the first one;
• the "Partner" label on every partner wherever it appears.

The aim is that you know about a financial relationship before you act on anything we say, not after.

Who we are

Weight Care Edit is an independent publisher. We aren't a pharmacy, a clinic, an insurer or a telehealth company, and we don't prescribe, sell or ship any medication. When you sign up with a provider, you're dealing with that provider directly, under its own terms and privacy policy. What we collect about readers, and what we don't, is in our privacy policy.

Questions readers ask

Can a company pay to rank higher? No. A place in a scored lineup comes from the Care & cost score, and money isn't one of its inputs. Compensation can only affect the spots that show partners alone, which are labeled, and which of two exactly tied companies is listed first.

How can I tell whether a company is a partner? Look for the "Partner" label next to its name. A company without the label has no commercial relationship with us, and a link to it earns us nothing.

Do I have to use your links? No. You can go straight to any provider's site, search for it yourself, or use none of them. Everything we publish is free to read either way.

Do you get paid if I sign up later, or on another device? An active affiliate relationship may credit a later signup, depending on attribution. A partner usually credits us only when it can tell the visit started on Weight Care Edit, so a later visit from somewhere else may or may not count. Either way, your price is the same.

Does a partnership mean the provider is safe or right for me? No. A partnership is a business arrangement about referrals. It says nothing about a provider's clinicians or its pharmacy, and it isn't medical advice. Read the review, check the licensing yourself, and talk to a clinician.

What happens if a partner gets an FDA warning letter or raises its price? The same thing that happens for any other company. The letter goes on its review, the new price goes into its score, and its place in a lineup moves with the score.

Why we tell you all this

Money changes how people read advice, and it should. A reader comparing what a GLP-1 program costs deserves to know who is paid for the comparison and how. We would rather you trust Weight Care Edit because you can see how it's funded than in spite of not knowing.

Something looks wrong?

If you think a page is wrong, or that a commercial relationship has shaped something it shouldn't have, tell us. The corrections mailbox on the contact page reaches the editors, and the corrections log shows what we've fixed. Questions about partnerships go to the partnerships mailbox on the same page.