Disclosure and Policies

Please take time to check our Policies, thank you 🙂

As Eat Drink Stay Dubai is audience-supported, it’s important to be clear about how revenue is generated via this site.

Revenue is vital to support site expenses, and is generated by the following means:-

Please note there is a distinction between ‘advertising’ and affiliate partnerships, and it is – recommendation.

In short, anything we ‘recommend’ is something we’re already a customer of, trust, happily promote & recommend.

We may get a commission out of any purchases made via affiliates, but that’s not our primary reason in promoting them – we’d promote them even if we didn’t get paid.

With advertising, including any sponsors, there is no recommendation thereof, implied or explicit.

 

1. Editorial Policy

All content on Eat Drink Stay Dubai is written objectively by our team, and we retain copyright where appropriate.

Any reviews, articles or content are published direct to the site without prior third-party involvement, approval or discussions (i.e. you’re the first to view anything).

Any sponsored content will be clearly stated in the particular article, otherwise, all content can be accepted as impartial.

2. Reviews Policy

Disclosure: All of our reviews are visited anonymously, and we pay for all charges ourselves.

We feel no freebies, no bias, no PR or marketing involvement makes for a fairer, objective and better review for you.

3. Affiliates Policy

As Eat Drink Stay Dubai is audience-supported, some links on Eat Drink Stay Dubai may contain affiliate links.

Any affiliate partnerships can be easily identified by checking the link/URL format, which will include /recommends/

For instance, https://www.eatdrinkstaydubai.com/recommends/Conrad is an affiliate link, and the ‘recommends’ can be clearly seen after the ‘eatdrinkstaydubai.com’.

When you click and purchase through affiliate links, we may receive a small commission at no increased cost to you.

Please note we only accept affiliate links for products we already personally use and recommend, and what we feel may be of benefit to our readers.

Please click here for our current Affiliate Partners, who we’re delighted to recommend and work with.

Thank you for your understanding and support – you’re awesome!

4. Advertising Policy

Eat Drink Stay Dubai is audience-supported via advertising links as well as affiliate links.

There are primarily three types of advertising on Eat Drink Stay Dubai:-

  1. Graphic/banner adverts – via Google Adsense (see “5. Privacy Policy” below)
  2. Skimlinks – some links in articles may be automatically turned into affiliate links via Skimlinks (these can be identified by b.link in the link/URL, eg https://b.link/w3ce3lj1 )
  3. Amazon Associates – some links may be affiliate links to Amazon Associates (these can be identified by geni.us in the link/URL, eg https://geni.us/RL0a )

Some links on Eat Drink Stay Dubai may be auto-converted to Skimlinks and Amazon Associates link by plugins.

“Eat Drink Stay Dubai is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a way for websites to earn advertising revenues by advertising and linking to Amazon products and stores”

Product prices and availability are accurate as of the date/time indicated and are subject to change. Any price and availability information displayed on relevant Amazon Site(s), at the time of purchase will apply to the purchase of this product”

As with all advertising and affiliate links on Eat Drink Stay Dubai, any commission will not increase costs to purchasers and will support the site.

5. Privacy Policy

  1. Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to your website or other websites.
  2. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
  3. Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings. (Alternatively, you can direct users to opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.)

6. Republication Policy

We encourage shares on links on social media via the embedded on-page icons our content.

However, please DO NOT republish or reappropriate our content by any other means without prior approval.

7. PR Policy

Please DO NOT ask us to work for free, ‘exposure’ or without consideration – here’s why.