Course Centrals is an independent educational discovery and editorial website that helps users research and discover courses, professional certifications, exams, learning resources and related educational opportunities.
To support the operation and development of Course Centrals, some links on CourseCentrals.com may be affiliate links.
This Affiliate Disclaimer explains how those relationships work and how they relate to the content and recommendations published on Course Centrals.
1. What Is an Affiliate Link?
An affiliate link is a link containing information that allows a third-party provider or affiliate network to recognise that a visitor was referred from Course Centrals.
If you click an affiliate link and subsequently make a qualifying purchase, enrol in a course, subscribe to a service or complete another qualifying action, Course Centrals may receive a commission or other compensation from the relevant provider or affiliate network.
Where applicable, this generally does not increase the price you pay.
2. How Course Centrals Uses Affiliate Links
Affiliate links may appear within:
- course pages
- certification pages
- educational guides
- comparisons
- recommendations
- reviews
- provider pages
- calls to action
- other relevant editorial content
Not every link on Course Centrals is an affiliate link, and not every course, certification, provider or resource featured on the Website necessarily has a commercial relationship with Course Centrals.
3. Editorial Independence
Our goal is to help visitors make better-informed decisions about courses, certifications and educational opportunities.
The existence or value of an affiliate commission is not intended to determine our editorial assessment of a course or provider.
Where Course Centrals provides recommendations, comparisons or editorial opinions, we aim to base them on factors relevant to learners, which may include:
- curriculum and learning outcomes
- provider credibility
- course structure
- accessibility for the intended learner
- practical relevance
- skills covered
- potential limitations
- suitability for particular learning goals
- overall usefulness to prospective learners
We aim not to rank or recommend educational opportunities solely because one provider offers a higher commission than another.
4. Affiliate Relationships Are Not Necessarily Endorsements
An affiliate relationship between Course Centrals and a third-party provider does not necessarily mean that the provider sponsors, owns, operates or officially endorses Course Centrals.
Similarly, the inclusion of a course, certification, university, educational platform or provider on Course Centrals does not necessarily mean that Course Centrals has a commercial relationship with that organisation.
Any material partnership or sponsored arrangement may be identified separately where appropriate.
5. Prices, Offers and Availability
Course providers and educational platforms control their own:
- prices
- discounts
- promotions
- subscription terms
- financial-aid options
- course availability
- enrolment conditions
- refund policies
- certification requirements
- other commercial terms
These may change at any time.
Although Course Centrals aims to keep its information useful and current, we cannot guarantee that a price, offer or other information displayed on our Website will always match the information subsequently shown by a third-party provider.
You should verify important information directly on the provider’s website before enrolling or making a purchase.
The provider’s website determines the final price and applicable terms of any transaction.
6. Your Relationship With Third-Party Providers
Course Centrals does not currently process course enrolments or payments directly.
When you follow an affiliate or other external link and interact with a third-party provider, any purchase, enrolment, subscription or other transaction is between you and that provider.
The provider’s own terms, privacy policy, refund policy and other conditions will apply.
Course Centrals does not receive your payment-card details merely because you used one of our affiliate links.
7. Affiliate Tracking
Affiliate providers or networks may use cookies, referral parameters or similar technologies to determine whether a visitor reached their website through Course Centrals.
This allows qualifying referrals or transactions to be attributed to Course Centrals.
For more information about cookies, analytics and information processing associated with the Website, please review our Privacy Policy.
8. Disclosure Within Our Content
Where appropriate, Course Centrals may also place a shorter affiliate disclosure within or near content containing affiliate links.
For example:
Affiliate disclosure: Course Centrals may earn a commission if you enrol through our links, at no additional cost to you.
These shorter disclosures are intended to make the commercial relationship clear at the point where visitors may encounter an affiliate recommendation or link.
This Affiliate Disclaimer provides additional information about those relationships.
9. Sponsored Content
If Course Centrals publishes content that has been directly sponsored or paid for by a third party, we aim to identify the commercial nature of that content clearly.
Sponsored arrangements are distinct from ordinary affiliate links.
Receiving compensation does not transfer editorial ownership of Course Centrals to the sponsor.
10. No Guarantee of Results
The presence of an affiliate link or recommendation does not guarantee that a course, certification or educational product will produce a particular result.
Course Centrals does not guarantee employment, salary increases, promotions, examination success, professional licensing, admission, career progression or any other particular outcome from completing a course or certification.
Visitors should evaluate educational opportunities according to their own goals, circumstances and requirements.
11. Changes to This Affiliate Disclaimer
We may update this Affiliate Disclaimer as Course Centrals develops, joins new affiliate programmes, changes commercial relationships or modifies how affiliate links are used.
When changes are made, the “Last updated” date at the top of this page will be revised.
12. Questions
If you have questions about an affiliate relationship, recommendation or disclosure appearing on Course Centrals, please contact:
Course Centrals
Email: coursecentrals@gmail.com
Website: CourseCentrals.com