The short version
One product is linked from this site: Avast Antivirus. That link is a paid affiliate link. If you follow it and create and activate an account with the vendor, an advertising network pays Dynamic Group s.r.o., the publisher of this site, a commission. You pay nothing extra for arriving through that link, and the price on the vendor's site is the same whether you came from here or typed the address yourself.
How the arrangement works
The publisher is registered as a partner with an advertising network that represents the vendor. The network supplies a tracked web address, which appears on this site exactly as supplied, in the link itself, visible in your browser's status bar before you click. There is no redirect on this domain, no intermediate page, no script that changes the destination, and no interstitial asking you to continue.
When a reader follows that link, the network records the referral. If that reader then creates and activates an account with the vendor, the network credits the publisher with a commission. The publisher receives aggregate reports of how many such actions occurred and what is owed; it does not receive names, email addresses or any other personal information about individual readers, and it has no way of knowing which reader completed which action.
The commission is paid per completed action rather than per click or per page view. A reader who follows the link, looks at the vendor's site and leaves generates nothing, which is stated because it explains the incentive precisely: the incentive is for readers to sign up, and that is exactly the pressure a reader should weigh when reading anything this site says about the product.
What the commission does not influence
Three things in particular, each of which can be checked against the site itself.
- It does not change the price you pay. Affiliate commission is paid by the network out of its arrangement with the vendor. Nothing is added to your cost, and no discount is created either — this site states no price and makes no claim about one.
- It does not shape what the pages say about the product. Every product-specific statement on this site comes from the advertiser's own written listing, and where that listing is silent, the site says so rather than filling the gap. The result is that the product page contains a longer list of what is unknown than of what is known, which is not what a page written to maximise sign-ups would look like.
- It does not determine the order or emphasis of anything. Order on each page follows what a reader needs first. On device security basics that puts six free measures above the paid one; on choosing protection it puts the question of whether a third-party product is needed at all before any comparison.
What does determine the coverage
Being candid about the previous section requires being candid about this one. The commercial relationship determines which product appears here: Avast Antivirus is the only product covered in detail because it is the only one the publisher has an arrangement for. This site is not a survey of the market, does not claim to have considered alternatives, and the product's presence is not evidence that it was assessed against anything.
What determines the content, once the product is on the page, is different: the advertiser's written listing for product-specific statements, publicly checkable industry practice for descriptions of how the technology works, and the published material of Australian authorities for anything about law, rights or reporting. No testing is performed by this publisher, so no scores, rankings or verdicts appear anywhere on the site, and there are no testimonials or user reviews because none could be verified.
The rest of the site — the glossary, how antivirus works, device security basics and scams, rights and help — carries no affiliate links at all and would read identically if the arrangement ended tomorrow. That is the practical test of whether a site like this is worth reading, and it is the test this one is built to pass.
How paid links are labelled
Every affiliate link on this site carries a note immediately beside it saying that it is paid and what triggers the commission, in ordinary body text rather than small print. In the page's markup each such link is marked rel="sponsored nofollow", which is the standard way of declaring a paid link to search engines, and opens in a new tab so you do not lose your place. There are no paid links disguised as ordinary text, no paid mentions inside the glossary, and no advertising banners anywhere on the site.
The disclosure also appears in the upper part of the home page, above the first link, so that a reader who never opens this page still learns how the site is funded before encountering anything paid.
Why this is set out at this length
Under Australian Consumer Law, conduct in trade that is misleading or deceptive is prohibited, and a commercial relationship that a reader would want to know about is exactly the kind of thing whose concealment misleads. The obligation sits on the publisher, not only on the advertiser, and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission publishes guidance on advertising and selling that reflects that. Disclosing the arrangement in full, in plain words, in the places a reader will actually encounter it, is the straightforward way to meet it.
Avast and all other product names, logos and brands mentioned on this site are the property of their respective owners. AdeptBase is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any of them, and nothing on this site is authorised, reviewed or approved by the vendor or by the advertising network.
Questions
Anything about this arrangement that is not answered here can be asked at info@adeptbase.online. Who the publisher is and how coverage is decided is set out on the about page; how your information is handled, including the fact that nothing about your visit reaches the advertising network before you follow the link, is in the privacy policy.