Affiliate disclosure

    Right now: nothing

    MiniSplitsHQ has no active affiliate partnerships and earns no commission from any link on this site today. Links to products and retailers are ordinary links: nothing is tagged, and clicking one sends us no money.

    That is expected to change, and we want the record of what changes to exist before it does. The programs we have applied to or plan to apply to are HVACDirect, HeatAndCool.com through the Rakuten network, and the MRCOOL DIY Direct creator program, with Home Depot and Amazon as fallback options for accessories and tools. None of these has approved us as of this writing.

    Some product links already route through our /go/ layer so we can count clicks. These are plain links to the merchant with no affiliate parameters, and they pay us nothing:

    What changes on approval

    When a program approves us, commissions may start on some links. You will not have to take our word for when that happened: this page reads the active-program list from the same registry file that controls every affiliate link on the site, so a program appears here the day its links go live. Every affiliate link is marked rel="sponsored nofollow noopener", and a disclosure block renders above the first affiliate link on any page that carries one. Before you click, not in the footer.

    The independence rule

    A commission never changes a verdict, a DIY tier, a comparison value, or whether a product is recommended at all. If the honest answer is that you do not need the thing, or that you should not DIY the install, that is the answer, and the link does not appear. Premium pro-install brands are never pushed as DIY purchases to earn a commission.

    This is checkable rather than aspirational: every recommendation states the criteria it was made on, so you can test the reasoning yourself. And some of it is enforced in the site's own build. Every affiliate link must pass through one registered chokepoint, a raw merchant URL in an article fails the build, and a page cannot render an affiliate link without disclosure handling.

    What this site will never do: display advertising, sponsored posts, paid reviews, paid placement in a comparison, or letting a company read an article before it publishes.

    Website disclaimer

    Everything on minisplitshq.com is general education, provided in good faith and checked against the sources named on each page. It is not professional advice, and we make no warranty as to completeness or fitness for your situation. Every price is a dated estimate from a published listing, not a quote. Actual costs vary by region, home, and installer. Sizing, electrical, and permit decisions belong with a load calculation, a licensed electrician, and your local building department.