How Scriptside is paid, and what we refuse

Scriptside earns money when a reader follows a marked partner link to an online hair-loss service and signs up. That is the only way the site is paid: there are no advertisements, no sponsored posts and no paid placements.

The services that may pay us

We link to four services through partner programmes: Hims, Keeps, Happy Head and Strut Health. Some of these programmes still have to approve this site, so until they do, the link simply takes you to the service's homepage and earns nothing. When a programme approves us, the link starts recording that you came from here, and the service may pay us for a sign-up.

We have no link to Ro. Ro is reviewed on its merits and scores highest on our comparison, and it pays us nothing. If that ever changes, this page will say so before any link appears.

How partner links look

Partner links are buttons at the end of a service's own section or review, and each carries a line saying it is a partner link. They pass through an address on our site that begins /go/, and they are marked sponsored and nofollow for search engines. A notice near the top of every page that has one says so as well. We put no partner links inside step-by-step instructions or checklists.

Rules we keep

Payment never changes a score, a ranking or a sentence. Every score comes from the published five-part test, applied to each service's own pages. We recommend routes that pay us nothing wherever they are the honest answer, including your own doctor and a cash-price pharmacy, and we say when they pay us nothing.

We never promote a drug, publish discount codes for prescription medicines, or bid on a service's brand name in search advertising. We never publish results photos or patient quotes.

What we refuse

Some hair-loss offers pay publishers well and are wrong for readers. We refuse the following, and will not link to them:

• Hair-loss information products and supplement offers sold through ClickBank or Digistore24, where aggressive claims and refund disputes are common.
• HealthTrader, whose pharmacy-style offers carry regulatory risk that varies by country.
• Luviacure's ambassador scheme, which markets itself on the income it promises its promoters.
• Flymedi and Medigance, which we could not verify.
• Medical-tourism facilitators such as Bookimed, Qunomedical and WhatClinic, which are paid by clinics.
• Bosley, whose programme has closed.
• Any seller of prescription medicines that does not require a prescription.

Questions

Write to [email protected] if you think a page breaks any rule here, and we will look at it and answer.