A five-minute disclosure audit for your page

Gifted, sponsored, affiliate or your own: the plain sentence for each and where it goes, plus a checklist. General information, not legal advice.

9 October 2026 · 6 min read

Somewhere on your page, money is involved: a commission on a link, a product a brand sent you, a sponsor who paid for a slot, a tip button. Each is a different relationship, and each needs its own plain sentence.

This post gives you those sentences to copy, where on the page they belong, and a checklist that takes about five minutes. It is general information, not legal advice.

Why audit the page and not the post

Disclosure advice is usually about posts: put the line in the caption, say it in the video. A bio page is different. It has no publish date, you edit it whenever you add something, and visitors arrive from a video you made months ago without ever seeing the caption.

So the page has to explain itself. Anyone who lands on it, from any post, should know who pays you for what before they tap.

Which relationship are you disclosing?

Four, and they are not interchangeable.

• Affiliate. A tracked link that earns you a commission when a visitor buys.
• Gifted. A brand sent you the product. You were not paid, but you received something.
• Sponsored. A brand paid you to feature something.
• Your own. You made it and you sell it, or you ask for tips.

One item can be two: a gifted blender with an affiliate link needs a sentence that names both. And the link does not decide it: a plain shop link still needs a sentence if the brand sent you the product. You disclose the relationship, not the link.

A plain sentence for each

Copy these in your own voice. Each names the relationship, says what you got, and uses words a stranger understands.

If a gift came with an expectation that you would feature it, say that too, so "they did not pay me" is not the whole story.

What MyBase already says on your page, and what it cannot know

A public Creator Profile that has at least one product on a shelf shows a small default line at the foot of the page. It sits under your last section, in small, muted type. It says some links may be affiliate links and that you or MyBase may earn a commission if a visitor shops through them, at no extra cost to the visitor. Its "How this works" link opens our affiliate and brand disclosure, which explains how your own links pay you and where MyBase itself may earn. That page also says creators must follow the disclosure rules in their market. The line stays visible in every collection header style: Inline, Card and Hidden.

A profile with only links, or with no products, shows no default line at all. If your own affiliate link sits on a profile like that, nothing on MyBase speaks for you, so it needs your own sentence.

The limits: the default line speaks about affiliate links and nothing else. It cannot see a product a brand sent you or a post a brand paid for. And it says "may" because it is one fixed line for every page, not a check of your links. You know which of your links earn, so your sentence can say "are".

A pick from the Vault, our curated catalog, has no affiliate link, so it earns you nothing by itself. It is still not exempt from your sentence: if a brand sent you that product, say so beside it.

Where your own sentences go on MyBase

• The whole page. Write it in the note on your Links section, which sits above the buttons, or in a text note. Either way, move that section or note high in your layout. A text note holds a 40-character title and 600 characters.
• A shelf. A section note sits under the section's header, above the items. Use it for the normal-size sentence and name the items it covers: "The blender and the kettle below were sent to me for free."
• One item. Use the product's own note, "Why you swear by it". The card sets it small and muted and shows about three lines, so put the disclosure first and keep it short. Treat it as a second mention, not your only one.

Section notes come in five styles: Classic, Whisper, Statement, Chip and Editorial. Use Classic, Statement or Chip and avoid Whisper: it is set small and in italics, which defeats the point.

Other places money touches a page

• The tip button. If you use one, it opens your own tip page, and MyBase does not handle that money. Its label holds 24 characters, so keep it short ("Send a tip" is the default) and say the rest in the note on your Links section: "The tip button opens my own tip page. Tips go to me, they are not a purchase."
• Discount codes. A code that earns you a commission is an affiliate link in another shape. Give it the affiliate sentence.
• Brand approaches. Today brands reach you by email, through the contact address on your media kit. The approach inbox inside MyBase exists, but brands cannot send into it yet. If you say yes there, it only shows you the brand's contact address, and no money moves through MyBase. Once it becomes a deal, name it by what it is: sponsored if they pay you, gifted if they send product.
• Your media kit. Past collaborations listed there are your words, and MyBase has not verified them. Each entry has a "What the work was" field, so use it to say what the job was, the same as on your page.

Words that fail

A disclosure fails when a visitor can read it and still not know who paid whom.

• "Thanks to the brand." For a free product, a payment, or lunch?
• "Partner", "collab", "sp". They cover everything from a free sample to a year-long contract, in your industry's shorthand.
• "All opinions are my own." Fine to add, poor to rely on. It does not say who paid.

The test: read it as a stranger who has never seen your videos. Can they say who gave you what? If not, rewrite it. Rules differ between countries and change, so check your regulator's current wording too.

The five-minute audit

1. Open your live page on a phone and scroll it as a visitor would.
2. List every item that earns you something, or that a brand gave you or paid for, with its relationship. Some will have two.
3. Check each has its sentence, in the section note directly above it or beside it, before the link a visitor taps, in normal-size text, readable in light and dark, not behind a tap.
4. Scroll from the top. Is a disclosure in view before the first link that earns? The default notice sits at the foot of the page, so add your own sentence near the top, and again above long shelves.
5. Check the tip button, any discount code and your media kit say what they are.
6. Write down the date you did this audit, and run it again after your next brand deal or when you add a new kind of link.

Put it on the page

Captions scroll away. The page stays, so the sentences belong on it. When you are ready for a page of your own, claim your handle. For the money side, read how affiliate links actually pay. For the layout, read how to build a link in bio that converts.

FAQ

Is this legal advice?

No. It is general information from people who build a creator platform. Disclosure rules differ between countries and change over time, so we have not summarised any here. Check your regulator's current guidance, and speak to a lawyer if a real deal depends on it.

Is the default notice on my MyBase page enough?

No, not on its own. It appears only when your page has at least one product on a shelf, it sits at the very bottom in small type, and it covers affiliate links only. A page of links alone gets no default notice. Gifted and sponsored work, a code that pays you and your own products need your sentence, placed higher up, and whether the result is enough in your market is a question for your regulator's guidance.

What if I bought the product myself and nothing earns me anything?

Then there is no relationship to name, and "I bought this with my own money" costs you nothing. A friend's brand or a past employer is still a relationship, so say that one.