How we make money

CardPoints is free to use. When you click through to a brand and buy, some brands pay us a commission, usually through an affiliate network. The commission comes out of the brand’s marketing budget. It never changes the price you pay or the points you collect.

Our rules

• Every offer is listed, whether or not the brand pays us. Brands with no commercial relationship to us sit alongside those with one, because a scheme page that left out half the ways to earn would be no use to you.
• Commission never decides the order. Time-limited bonus offers come first, then the always-on ways to earn, each in date order. What a brand pays us plays no part.
• Brands can’t pay to be listed or to change what we say. No brand sees or approves a page before it is published.
• Our reference pages carry no affiliate links. The points value index and the points expiry guide link only to our own pages, so nothing on them earns us money.
• Links to brands are marked. Every link to a brand is tagged as sponsored, and every page carries a disclosure at the foot.
• No advertising. We run no display adverts and no sponsored posts.
• Points, never voucher codes. We list offers that earn points or a scheme’s own reward credit. Where a points offer needs a code, we link to the brand’s page that shows it rather than printing it.

How offers get on the site

We use AI tools to check brands’ own pages, and every offer is approved by a person before it goes live, with the date we last checked it. The method is on how we find and verify offers.

CardPoints is published by E-Tara Ltd, an independent company registered in England and Wales (company number 05711631). Questions about any of this are welcome: get in touch.