Affiliate disclosure

Short version: some outbound links on this site can be affiliate links, which pay cityparity a commission when you sign up with the partner. Your price is the same either way, the links are marked, placement is never sold, and no partner ever sees data about you as an individual.

What an affiliate link is

An affiliate link is an ordinary outbound link with a referral tag attached. If you click it and then sign up or buy on the partner's site, the partner can tell the visit came from cityparity and pays us a commission out of its own marketing budget. The price you pay is identical with or without the tag.

One technical note worth knowing: after you click, the partner's site typically sets its own cookies on its own domain to remember the referral, usually for somewhere between 30 and 365 days depending on the program. That happens on their site, under their privacy policy. Nothing extra runs here, and this site remains cookieless as described on the privacy page.

Placement is never sold

Most affiliate links live in the "Actually looking to move?" checklist that appears under a calculator result. Its rows follow the order of a relocation (permit, offer, moving quotes, money transfer, health insurance, tax), and a row renders only when it applies to the two cities you compared. The money-transfer row appears when the cities use different currencies; the permit row drops off inside free-movement zones like the EU.

A guide or article can also carry one, in a marked box next to the section it belongs to. Those boxes are built from the same partner list as the checklist, and the disclosure line is part of the box, so a page cannot end up holding a partner link and no notice. The methodology, about and privacy pages hold none. That is deliberate. Those are the pages you would use to decide whether to believe the rest, so we keep them clear of anything we get paid for.

A partner cannot buy a slot, a higher position, or a mention in the comparison itself. The calculator's math comes from cited public sources and is finished before the checklist renders.

The recommendations came first

Every step in the checklist was there before its category carried an affiliate link. A partner earns a place only when it fits the job that row already does. Approval can change the destination link, but it cannot create a new step, move the row higher, or change the calculator's answer. If no partner fits, the row keeps an untagged informational link.

Which categories can carry affiliate links

Four categories can carry affiliate links: moving quotes, money transfer, international health insurance, and tax filing. Tax filing and international health insurance are live today. The tax partner appears only for people moving from the United States. The health-cover partner appears only after a cross-border homepage comparison. Domestic US moves keep HealthCare.gov, and generated comparison pages keep the untagged informational insurance destination. We name categories here because partner programs open and close; the company behind any link is always visible on the link itself. If this list grows, this page changes first.

Two markers tell you a link is an affiliate link. The link carries a rel="sponsored" attribute in the page markup, and a disclosure line appears on any page that holds one, wherever on the page the link sits. No line means no affiliate links on that page. Our build runs a test that fails if a page carries a partner link without the line, so this is a mechanism rather than a promise.

What we count when you click

Clicks on checklist rows are counted by the same anonymous, cookieless counter described on the privacy page. A click records the category and the city pair being compared: for example, that a session comparing Berlin and London clicked the moving row. It records no name, no email, no salary, no IP address, and no identifier that survives closing the tab. These counts tell us which steps people find useful on which routes. Visiting any page with ?rum=off in the URL once excludes your browser from all of it.

What partners can see

Partners only ever receive aggregate numbers. A partner might learn that a certain number of sessions comparing two specific cities clicked its category in a month. We share a figure only when at least 20 sessions sit behind it, so no number can point back at one person. No partner receives an email address, a salary, a click trail, or anything else about you individually, and there is nothing to hand over: the counter above holds no such records in the first place.

Last updated: 2026-09-01