Affiliate Disclosure

What Is Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate marketing is a performance-based marketing model in which a website (like Sastaitem.com) earns a commission when it refers a visitor to a partner retailer's website and that visitor makes a qualifying purchase. Think of it as a referral fee — similar to how a travel agent earns a commission from a hotel for sending them a customer.

For you as a shopper, this means absolutely nothing changes. You pay the exact same price you would have paid by going directly to Amazon or Flipkart. The commission is paid by the retailer out of their existing marketing budget — not added on top of your purchase price.

Our Affiliate Partnerships

Sastaitem.com has affiliate relationships with the following platforms (and may add more over time):

Commission rates are set entirely by the partner platforms — Sastaitem has no influence over them. Commissions vary by product category and are subject to change by the platform at any time.

Does This Affect Our Rankings or Recommendations?

No. Our price rankings are always sorted by lowest price first. The platform that appears at the top of our comparison table is always the one with the genuinely lowest price for that product at the time of our last price update — regardless of which platform pays us a higher commission.

No retailer can pay us to appear higher in our results. No platform can pay us to suppress a competitor's lower price. Our results are determined algorithmically by price alone.

We earn our best commissions when users save the most money. That is a deliberate alignment of incentives — when you win, we win.

How Affiliate Tracking Works

When you click a "Buy Now" button on Sastaitem.com, the link you follow contains a unique tracking parameter (e.g., tag=sastaitem-21 for Amazon). This parameter:

• Identifies Sastaitem.com as the referring site to the partner platform.
• Is stored as a cookie on the partner platform's website (typically valid for 24 hours on Amazon, longer on other platforms).
• Allows the partner platform to attribute any qualifying purchase to us for commission purposes.
• Does not collect or transmit any personal data about you to us.

What Counts as a "Qualifying Purchase"?

Each affiliate programme defines its own qualifying criteria. Generally, a purchase qualifies if:

• You click an outbound link from Sastaitem.com.
• You complete a purchase within the cookie window (typically 24 hours).
• The item purchased is not returned or cancelled.

We earn no commission on returns, cancellations, or purchases made outside the cookie window.

Sponsored Content

Occasionally, Sastaitem.com may feature sponsored deals or promoted products. Any such content will be clearly marked with a "Sponsored" label so you can distinguish it from our organic, algorithmically-ranked results. We will not publish sponsored content that promotes products we genuinely do not believe represent good value.

Our Promise to You

• We will always be transparent about our affiliate relationships.
• We will never rank products based on commission rate.
• We will never recommend a product simply because it pays us more.
• We will clearly label all sponsored or paid placements.
• We will never manipulate prices displayed to inflate apparent savings.

Questions?

If you have any questions about how our affiliate programme works, or if you believe you have seen content that is inconsistent with this disclosure, please contact us at hello@sastaitem.com.

Governing Guidelines

This disclosure is made in accordance with:

• Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) Guidelines for Influencer Advertising and Affiliate Disclosures.
• Amazon Associates Operating Agreement.
• Flipkart Affiliate Programme Terms.