How MightBuy makes money

The short version

MightBuy is free. When you click out from your shop to a retailer and buy something, the retailer may pay us a small commission. The price you pay is exactly the same either way. That's the whole model — no ads, no selling your data.

How affiliate links work here

When you click a saved product in the MightBuy web app, we may route that click through an affiliate network so the retailer knows the visit came from MightBuy. If you then buy, the retailer pays us a commission out of their own margin — typically 3–10% of the sale.

We plan to work with [Decision needed: confirm affiliate networks at launch — currently planned: Skimlinks and/or Sovrn, with Amazon Associates and other direct programmes later].

Our rules (what we will never do)

Some shopping extensions have been criticised — and sued — for quietly taking credit for sales they didn't generate. We think that behaviour poisoned trust in tools like this, so these rules are design principles, not small print:

• Links only become affiliate links when you click them in the MightBuy web app. Nothing happens silently or in the background.
• The browser extension never touches your links.It captures the product page's address exactly as-is and does not add, modify, or replace any affiliate codes, links, or cookies.
• We never interfere at checkout.No injecting codes, no swapping tracking cookies, no claiming credit for a purchase we didn't genuinely refer.
• Commission never affects what you pay or which products we show you. Your shop is your shop.

Prices can go stale

The price shown on a saved item is the price we captured when you saved it. Retailers change prices constantly, so the live price on the retailer's site is the one that counts. We're not the seller — every purchase is between you and the retailer.

Where you'll see disclosures

This page is the plain-English disclosure, and it's linked from the footer of every page. On top of that:

• The browser extension's store listing and interface will disclose our affiliate participation, as required by the Chrome Web Store's affiliate-ads policy.
• [Decision needed: once enrolled in Amazon Associates, add the required wording: “As an Amazon Associate, MightBuy earns from qualifying purchases.”]
• [Decision needed: decide whether shared wishlist pages (/s/…) carry their own inline “links may earn MightBuy a commission” note for visitors, once affiliate links go live]

Related

Affiliate networks may set cookies on the retailer's site after you click — see the privacy policy for details. The legal terms around affiliate links live in the terms of service.