How Hintwell earns

Hintwell is free, and it’s run by Alexandria Thorsgard, as an individual. Some of the buttons that take you to a store are affiliate links: if you buy something after tapping one, the store may pay Hintwell a small commission. It never changes the price you pay.

Which stores

As an Amazon Associate, Hintwell earns from qualifying purchases. Stores whose links can earn for Hintwell right now: Amazon.

Hintwell may also join other stores’ affiliate programs, run by the store itself or through an affiliate network (such as Impact, Awin, Rakuten Advertising or Skimlinks). A store is added to the list above only once its links are live in Hintwell. Every buy button names its store (“See it on Amazon”, “See it at Target”), and a note next to the links says Hintwell may earn from them.

What it doesn’t change

• Ideas are picked for the person you’re shopping for, from their taste, your hints and your budget. Which gift comes up, and in what order, isn’t based on the commission it would earn, and nobody pays to be shown.
• Nothing is earned for buying. Points are for planning (a person, a date, a saved idea, a quiz), never for a purchase.
• Amazon cards show no price. Where another store’s price is shown, it comes from that store and says when it was checked.
• Some links carry no tag, so nothing is earned from them: links for Hintwell’s own account and the people in a circle with it, and, until Amazon approves the iPhone app, Amazon links opened inside the app.

What the store sees

When you open a store from Hintwell, the store (and its affiliate network, if it uses one) may set or read cookies and see that the visit came from Hintwell, so the sale can be credited. Hintwell doesn’t send your profile, and stores don’t tell us who you are or what you bought. More in our privacy promise.

Questions

Email hello@hintwell.app, or write through Help & contact.