Affiliate Disclosure

Last updated 17 May 2026

When you click a product link on Hauly and buy something on the destination marketplace, we may earn a small commission. That commission comes from the marketplace, not from you — the price you pay is the same as if you'd found the listing on your own. We tell you this clearly on every relevant page.

How affiliate marketing works

Most large marketplaces run an affiliate program. Publishers (sites like Hauly) get a unique referral code. When a shopper clicks a link with that code and completes a purchase, the marketplace credits the publisher with a percentage of the order — usually somewhere between 2% and 18%, depending on the product category. The shopper pays the listed price. The commission comes out of the marketplace's margin, not the shopper's wallet.

Our affiliate partners

Hauly currently participates in affiliate programs run by the following platforms:

• Taobao, accessed through Involve Asia — an affiliate network that consolidates many Asian merchants under one publisher account.
• AliExpress, via the Involve Asia network and the Alibaba Affiliate Program.
• Lazada, also via Involve Asia, covering the major Southeast Asian markets we target.

We may add more partners over time — when we do, we'll list them here and disclose the relationship on any page that links to them.

How we choose what to recommend

We pick products based on three things: whether we think they're genuinely good, whether the merchant has a strong track record on the marketplace (ratings, response times, return policies), and whether they ship reliably to the countries we cover. Commission rate is not one of those things. We do not accept payment from merchants to feature their products, and we do not rank listings by how much we'd earn. If a product is worth recommending, we recommend it. If commission rates change in the background, we don't update our editorial judgment.

Sponsored content

As of the date at the top of this page, Hauly publishes no sponsored content. If that ever changes, anything paid-for will be labelled clearly as "Sponsored" at the top of the relevant page, and it will be visually distinct from our regular editorial recommendations. Sponsored placements would never replace or alter our affiliate disclosure.

Impact on the price you pay

Affiliate commissions do not raise the price you pay. The marketplaces — Taobao, AliExpress, Lazada — set their prices uniformly across all traffic sources. Whether you arrive through Hauly, a Google search, or a direct visit, you see the same number at checkout. Our commission is the marketplace's marketing cost, not yours.

Compliance commitments

We do our best to comply with affiliate disclosure standards across the jurisdictions our readers come from. In particular, this disclosure is informed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's Endorsement Guides, the U.K. CAP Code, the Australian ACCC guidance, and applicable consumer protection laws in Cambodia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. We're not lawyers — if you spot something we should clarify, please let us know.

Editorial independence

Hauly is run by an independent operator with no equity in or paid relationship with any of the marketplaces we link to (beyond the standard affiliate program any publisher can join). Our editorial decisions — what to feature, what to skip, how to rate something — are not subject to merchant approval or review. If we don't think a product is worth your money, we either don't write about it, or we say so plainly.

Questions

If anything about this disclosure is unclear, or if you'd like to know whether a specific recommendation is affiliate-linked: hello@hauly.asia. We'll answer.