How this desk is funded, stated plainly

The relationship

Outbound links from this desk go to kabosheet.com. Those links carry a source marker, and a click that leads to a purchase may earn this desk a referral credit. That is the entire commercial relationship, and it is the only one. There is no paid placement, no sponsored page, no advertiser, and nothing on this site that was written in exchange for money.

We state this at the top of the page rather than in a footnote because a disclosure that requires scrolling is not a disclosure. The same line appears above the footer on every page of the site.

What the relationship does not buy

• It does not buy a favourable measurement. Where our figures make the destination site look inconvenient — a wide transit range, a handling fee, a documentation request — the figures stand as measured.
• It does not buy removal of a failure mode. Every provider page on this desk names three things that go wrong. Those sections were not negotiated.
• It does not buy placement in a tool result. The line picker sorts on cost, speed, risk and fit from published ranges; no input to that sort comes from a commercial arrangement.
• It does not buy a ranking. This desk does not publish rankings of agents or of lists, partly because we cannot measure what such a ranking would require and partly because a ranking is the easiest thing to sell.
• It does not buy the absence of competitors. We do not name competing sites, but the reason is editorial rather than commercial: naming them would require measuring them, and we have not.

Where calls to action appear

There are eight outbound calls to action on the whole site, and their placement is fixed rather than chosen per page. They appear on the home page, the index desk, the six destination pages, the twelve provider pages, two write-ups, two tool result areas and the footer brand line. They do not appear on the category pages, the snapshot pages, the answer pages, the legal pages or the 404 page.

The cap is deliberate. A page with four calls to action reads as a page written to convert, and the reader adjusts accordingly. One clearly marked link at a point where you would naturally want it is both more useful and more honest.

Third-party links and their limits

Some pages link to public sources — customs authorities, government guidance, carrier documentation — so that a figure can be checked. Those links are not commercial, and they are marked by their context rather than by an attribute. They are also not endorsements: a link to an authority means we read that document, not that the authority endorses anything here.

We do not control third-party pages and we do not guarantee that they remain available, accurate or unchanged. Where a source link breaks, the figure it supported is re-checked at the next review rather than left standing on a dead citation.

Intellectual property and reuse

The text, tables, diagrams and tool logic on this desk are ours. You may quote a passage with attribution and a link to the page it came from. You may not republish a page in full, and you may not present our original data tables as your own work.

The figures we publish come from the four source kinds described on the method page. Where a figure originates in a published rule, quoting it is not a matter of our permission. Where it originates in our own counting, attribution is what we ask for.