Disclosures

Material relationships are disclosed on the page.

We follow FTC §465.6 and EU UCPD Annex I in spirit and in practice. If we have any material relationship with a brand or product we cover, we tell readers — clearly and conspicuously, not buried in fine print.

Editorial independence

TheLayer.co is an independent editorial publication. Editorial decisions — what we cover, how we score it, what we publish — are made by the editorial team. No advertiser, affiliate partner, or related brand has any approval or veto over editorial content.

Related parties

Some coverage references Creatsy, a related design tooling platform. The relationship is disclosed at the top of any individual article that mentions Creatsy, in addition to the disclosure paragraph in the footer of every page on this site.

Affiliate and commercial links

Affiliate, sponsored, partnership and material-relationship links are marked with rel="sponsored" in the page source — visible to readers who inspect, and visible to search engines. We do not use cloaking, link redirectors that hide the destination, or any practice designed to disguise a commercial relationship.

What you will not see

Backdated publishing dates.
Fake authors, reviewers or credentials.
Forced positive scores for any brand, including related parties.
Hidden affiliate links or undisclosed material relationships.
Synthetic AggregateRating schema invented from the editor's own opinion.

Reporting issues

Spot a missing disclosure or a relationship we should have flagged? Email editors@thelayer.co. Corrections are visible at the top of the affected article with a timestamp.