Affiliate Disclosure

Tinder & Fern participates in affiliate programs, which means this site earns a commission when you purchase a product through certain links. This costs you nothing extra.

How it works

When you click a link to a product on this site and make a purchase, the retailer pays a small commission to Tinder & Fern. The price you pay is identical whether you use the link or find the product yourself.

Affiliate relationships exist with programs including Amazon Associates, Awin, and others. Where a link is an affiliate link, it functions exactly like a regular product link but generates a commission on qualifying purchases.

What this means for recommendations

Every product recommended on this site has been evaluated from field experience. Commissions do not determine what gets recommended. A product that earns a higher commission rate will not appear here if it is not worth carrying.

The goal of this site is to be useful to people who want real wilderness skills and trustworthy gear guidance. That goal is undermined the moment recommendations become financially motivated rather than experience-motivated. The affiliate model works here only because the recommendations come from the field.

Amazon Associates

Tinder & Fern is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com.

Questions

If you have any questions about how affiliate relationships work on this site, the contact page is there.

Last updated May 2026.