You host a peer quitting group and have an affiliate link: disclose the connection

Identify the relationship before writing the recommendation

An affiliate commission, a free subscription, employment and ownership can affect how readers understand a recommendation. Describe the actual arrangement rather than calling yourself independent because nobody supplied your exact words. Hosting the group may add credibility in members’ eyes; avoid letting that role conceal the commercial connection.

The FTC’s US endorsement guidance explains material connections and disclosure. This guide uses that consumer-information principle, not a legal opinion about a particular arrangement. If you need to know your precise obligations, consult the actual guidance and appropriate qualified advice.

US Federal Trade Commission: FTC’s Endorsement Guides: What People Are Asking

Check the community rule before the disclosure wording

A group can prohibit promotion even when the financial relationship is disclosed. TalkLife’s own guidelines prohibit referral codes and commercial promotion; those rules do not automatically apply elsewhere. Find your group’s policy and ask the responsible organizer if your host role does not include deciding this question.

Do not introduce an exception for your own link silently. In a hypothetical group with a no-sales rule, the host can leave the link out and discuss an ordinary planning idea without recommending a purchase. The host’s wish to cover expenses does not itself rewrite what members agreed to join.

TalkLife: TalkLife Community Guidelines

Make the connection understandable in the actual format

If the permitted context involves an affiliate arrangement, a plain explanation can state that you may receive a commission when someone purchases through the link, provided that describes the real arrangement. Do not assert that the reader’s price is unchanged unless you can verify that fact. Put the information with the recommendation rather than relying on an unrelated profile page.

In an invented example, a host has free access to a journal service and may receive payment for referred sign-ups. Saying I use this service omits those facts. A truthful account can describe both the use and the connection, without inventing a result or implying that every member needs the service. There is no required purchase in this editorial exercise.

Keep role, experience and evidence separate

A host can accurately describe what they used while lacking evidence that it caused a quitting outcome. Avoid phrases that transform your peer role into a professional endorsement. Your observations are not a study, and a member’s enthusiasm does not establish suitability for another person. Treatment questions remain outside an ordinary host recommendation.

Let members decline without reduced access to ordinary conversation or demands for proof of progress. If the recommendation was already shared without the connection, correct that omission in the relevant audience through the appropriate channel. State what changed rather than promising the disclosure repairs every earlier impression. The useful result is an allowed, transparent communication or a clear decision not to publish it.