Our commercial relationships
The Credit Zone features clearly-labelled sponsored partners. A sponsored partner pays to appear on the site; the payment buys visibility, not editorial coverage or favourable treatment.
Our current sponsored partner is IWGT, an over-the-counter (OTC) desk in the UAE that buys cryptocurrency for AED. Wherever it appears, it sits inside a box labelled “Sponsored” and every link to it carries rel="sponsored".
We still do not take any of the following:
- affiliate links, or payments for clicks, applications or approvals;
- paid placements, rankings or “featured” products in our editorial content;
- lead forms, or sales of readers' details to lenders or brokers;
- payment from any partner to write, review or approve our guides.
No lender, sponsor or provider writes, reviews or approves our guides, and sponsorship never changes a figure, a rule, a calculator result, a rating or the order in which we explain options.
How we handle sponsorship
These commitments apply to every commercial relationship on the site, now and in future:
- This page changes first. We will list every type of income here, with the date it started, before it appears on the site.
- Labels where it appears. Adverts, sponsored content and commercial links will be labelled clearly next to the content, not only in a footnote.
- Editorial content stays separate. Commercial partners will not write, review or approve our guides, and will not choose which topics we cover.
- Facts are not for sale. No payment will change a figure, a rule, a calculator result or the order in which we explain options.
What this means for you
Our guides explain how credit works and what the rules say; they do not push you towards a product. The standards behind them are in our editorial policy. You can read more about us, and our disclaimer explains the limits of general information.