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FTC Affiliate Disclosure

TheTreatmentCommunity.com contains affiliate links. That means if you click certain links on our site and then sign up, make a purchase, or take another qualifying action, we may earn a referral fee or commission.

What This Means for You

Some companies listed on TTC may pay referral fees when readers choose to learn more about their services or become customers. In many cases, this comes at no additional cost to you. We use these commissions to support the operation of the site, including physician review, editorial work, research, and content updates.

Not every link on TTC is an affiliate link. We also link to non-affiliate resources, public agencies, and educational materials when we believe they are useful to our readers.

Compensation Does Not Change Our Editorial Rankings

Compensation does not influence our editorial rankings, recommendations, or reviews. Our editorial team and physician reviewers evaluate treatment options, tools, and resources based on clinical credibility, user relevance, accessibility, and the standards described in our Editorial Policy & Medical Review Process.

We do not allow affiliate partners to approve our copy, set our rankings, or remove negative observations that are supported by our review process. If a commercial relationship exists, we disclose it clearly and keep it separate from editorial decision-making.

What affiliate partners can and cannot do

Affiliate partners CAN

  • Establish a commercial relationship with TTC, disclosed clearly to readers
  • Appear in clearly labelled sponsorship placements
  • Be evaluated by our editorial team against our review criteria
  • Be recommended when the framework determines their offering matches a reader’s situation

Affiliate partners CANNOT

  • Approve our editorial copy
  • Set our editorial rankings
  • Remove negative observations supported by our review process
  • Change physician conclusions
  • Purchase preferential placement above other providers
Figure 2. What an affiliate partner can and cannot do at TTC, drawn verbatim from this page’s commitments. The list on the left names every commercial role a partner is allowed to play; the list on the right names every editorial decision a partner is not allowed to influence.
How our compensation is structured

To make this concrete: we earn referral fees when readers click certain links and take a qualifying action — typically signing up for a service, requesting information, or completing a verification form. We do not earn fees based on whether a reader enters treatment, the cost or duration of any treatment they receive, or any clinical outcome.

We do not accept payment for the ranking position of treatment facilities, telehealth platforms, or other providers reviewed on this site. Editorial rankings are determined by our review process, not by which partners pay us or how much.

Why Our Structure Protects Editorial Independence

The reason our editorial independence holds is structural, not aspirational. The clinical framework that organizes our content — The Restoration Ecosystem™ — is designed around the reader’s state, not the advertiser’s preference. When our system recommends a piece of content, a tool, or a treatment option to a reader, the recommendation is driven by what that reader’s situation calls for — the questions they are asking, the stage they are in, the kind of help that fits. Affiliate revenue follows the recommendation only if the recommendation happens to align with a partner relationship. The recommendation never follows the revenue.

The editorial and revenue firewall A diagram showing recommendations flowing left-to-right from the reader’s situation through The Restoration Ecosystem framework to the reader, with revenue flowing only downstream from the recommendation to TTC, and a one-way barrier blocking any upstream influence from revenue back into the framework or the recommendation. 1. READER Situation, questions, stage, kind of help 2. FRAMEWORK The Restoration Ecosystem™ Treatment & Medical Care Family Therapy & Support Recovery & Wellness 3. RECOMMENDATION Content, tool, or treatment option RECOMMENDATION FLOWS LEFT TO RIGHT — READER-DRIVEN ONE-WAY VALVE — Revenue cannot flow back upstream into the framework or the recommendation Revenue cannot push upstream 4. REVENUE Referral fee earned only if recommendation aligns with a partner Revenue flows downstream only. The recommendation never follows the revenue.
Figure 1. Recommendations flow from a reader’s situation through The Restoration Ecosystem™ framework to the reader. Revenue follows downstream only, never upstream. The one-way valve is structural: a partner relationship cannot push back through the barrier to influence what the framework recommends.

That is the structural reason a treatment center cannot pay to change our editorial conclusions. The framework decides what a reader needs based on the reader. Commerce sits outside that decision. Read more about The Restoration Ecosystem and how it shapes our content →

How Affiliate Links Are Identified on the Site

We aim to identify affiliate relationships in clear, plain language close to the relevant content. You may see disclosures at the top of an article, near a comparison table, beside a button, or immediately before the first affiliate link in a piece of content. Our goal is to make sure readers understand when a commercial relationship may exist before they click.

Examples of plain-language disclosures include statements such as: “This page contains affiliate links” or “We may earn a commission if you choose a provider through links on this page.”

Top of an article

A short line appears immediately under the article headline, before any body content.

Above a comparison table

A disclosure line sits above any comparison or rankings table on the page.

Beside a button or link

A short disclosure appears immediately next to the call-to-action button or affiliate link.

Figure 3. Where affiliate disclosures appear on TheTreatmentCommunity.com. Wording may vary, but the disclosure is placed close to the affiliate link so readers see it before they click.

Why We Disclose This

The Federal Trade Commission requires publishers to disclose material relationships that could affect how consumers evaluate endorsements or recommendations. We agree with that principle. Clear disclosure helps readers understand how the site is funded and gives context for any commercial links they encounter.

If you ever think a disclosure is missing or unclear, please contact us through our contact page so we can review it.

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