Affiliate disclosure

Sargassum Check is free. Some booking links may earn us a commission, and commission never changes a beach’s condition, confidence or ranking.

Version 6, effective 2026-11-06

Version 2026-11-06. Published at sargassumcheck.com/affiliate-disclosure and beachsignal.com/affiliate-disclosure, linked from every footer and from the notice beside every group of booking links.

How we may earn money

Sargassum Check and BeachSignal are free to use and have no accounts, subscriptions or advertising. They are operated by Waffle Corp. under its Terra Continua and BeachSignal brands.

Some links on this site are, or may become, affiliate links — including the Expedia, Hotels.com, Vrbo and hotel-chain buttons on hotel cards, and links that pass through a link-tagging service. If you click one and then book, the travel company may pay us a commission — in plain words, we may earn a commission when you book through a link on this site. You pay nothing extra; the price is the same as if you had gone to that site directly. Booking.com links are plain links and earn us nothing.

Our affiliate relationships on the version date: the Expedia Group Travel Creator Program (Expedia, Hotels.com, Vrbo), with Stay22 as a fallback for links Expedia does not cover, and hotel-chain programmes where we join them. The one-line notice beside the booking buttons — "We may earn a commission if you book through these links. It never changes our rankings." — tells you where this applies; it says "may" because not every link is tagged.

This disclosure follows the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's Endorsement Guides and the equivalent rules in the EU and the UK.

What commission never changes

Beach conditions, confidence labels and cleaner nearby alternatives come from evidence only, and the order of beaches and hotels never depends on commission. A hotel is listed because evidence puts it on or near a beach we cover, not because it pays us. We do not accept payment to change a beach's condition or ranking. We do not accept sponsored placement in the map, the planner or the alternatives. If that ever changes, a sponsored item will be labelled as such beside the item itself.

Hotel photographs

Hotel photographs help you recognise the property and link to its booking page. They come from Wikimedia Commons, each under its licence with its author and source credited, or from the hotel's own website or another site that publishes them, linked from the credits. They show the accommodation, not the current state of the beach. A rights holder who objects to an image can email contact@sargassumcheck.com and we remove it within 24 hours, as section 9 of the Terms of Use explains.

What we receive

An affiliate programme reports to us how many visitors we referred, how many bookings resulted and the commission earned. It does not tell us who you are, and we never see your booking or payment details. The Privacy Policy explains the affiliate cookie set by the travel company after you click.

Questions

Write to contact@sargassumcheck.com.

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