Affiliate Disclosure

TIC earns money when readers open live trading accounts with brokers we rate highly. This page explains exactly how that works, what it costs you (nothing), and the rules that keep our editorial work independent of the commercial side.

Last updated: 14 April 2026 · Version 1.0

1. The short version

TIC is free to use. We earn affiliate commissions from brokers when readers open live accounts through our links. You pay nothing extra because of this — the commission is paid by the broker, not by you. We accept no paid placements, no sponsored reviews, and no commercial editorial partnerships. Affiliate revenue is our only funding source.

The one-line promise No broker can pay TIC to be reviewed, to get a higher score, or to keep a negative finding out of an article.

2. How affiliate marketing works on TIC

When you click a broker link on TIC — for example, a “Visit Exness” button on a review — a cookie is set in your browser that tells the broker you came from us. If you then open a live account and start trading, the broker pays TIC a one-time or revenue-share commission. The commission is paid by the broker out of the broker’s own marketing budget.

Your side of the transaction is identical to going to the broker directly:

You pay the same spreads and commissions as any other client.
You have access to the same account types, platforms, and bonuses as any other client.
Your personal data is shared with the broker, not with TIC. We do not see your KYC documents, account balance, or trading activity.

3. The rules that keep us honest

Affiliate funding creates a real incentive: TIC earns more when readers open accounts. We manage that incentive with a small number of hard rules. These rules apply to every writer, editor, and contributor who works on TIC.

No broker can pay to be reviewed. We review brokers because they matter to our African audience, not because they pay more.
No broker sees a review before it is published. Brokers are not shown drafts, cannot request edits pre-publication, and cannot block publication.
No score is ever changed because of an affiliate conversation. Commercial discussions with brokers never touch editorial scoring.
Writers do not know the commission rate. Commercial rates are held by our partnerships team. Writers see only the broker’s product, not how much it pays us.
Methodology is public. Every score on TIC can be audited against our published 49-point rubric.
Disclosure is visible, not buried. Every broker review carries an affiliate disclosure at the top. This page sets out the full rules.

4. What affiliate status does not change

What affiliate status changes

Which brokers we prioritise for reviewing (the ones most relevant to our African audience, which are often the ones with affiliate programmes).
The presence of “Visit Broker” buttons on broker pages.
Our ability to fund the testing, editing, and fact-checking process.

What affiliate status does NOT change

The TIC Score any broker receives.
Whether negative findings get published.
The order of brokers in “best of” rankings.
The cost to you of using the broker.

5. Brokers we have affiliate relationships with

TIC currently has affiliate relationships with the brokers listed below. The list is updated whenever we add or end a relationship.

Exness — revenue-share on live-account trading volume.
Further broker partnerships will be added here as they go live and listed before any corresponding review is published.

Brokers we review but do not have an affiliate relationship with are marked “No affiliate relationship” at the top of the review. Reviews without affiliate links follow the same process, the same methodology, and the same editorial standards as reviews with them.

6. What happens to your data when you click

A first-party TIC cookie records which article you clicked from. No personal data.
The broker sets its own affiliate cookie when you arrive on their site. This is how the broker credits us.
We never transmit your name, email, or other personal data to the broker. The only thing the broker learns from us is “this visitor came from TIC.”
If you open an account, your relationship is with the broker — TIC is not a party to it. The broker’s privacy policy applies.

See our cookie policy for the full list of cookies we use and how to control them.

7. If you do not want to use our link

You are free to go directly to any broker’s website without using our affiliate link. TIC will still be free for you, and our review will still say exactly the same thing. We write the reviews the same way whether you use our link or not — because we want our review to be useful whether or not it earns us a commission.

8. Governing standards

TIC’s affiliate disclosure and related editorial practice are designed to meet the standards of:

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Endorsement Guides.
The UK Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) guidance on affiliate marketing.
The EU Unfair Commercial Practices Directive and national implementations.
Tanzanian, Kenyan, and South African consumer-protection and advertising standards.

9. How to contact us

For questions about this disclosure or our affiliate practices, email legal@tic.co.tz. For commercial and partnership enquiries, email partnerships@tic.co.tz. Our editorial guidelines and methodology set out the wider editorial rules.