Affiliate disclosure

Where things stand

As of 13 Oct 2026, SocketSun has no affiliate links, no ads, no sponsored posts and no free review products. No company has paid us, or given us anything, in connection with what we publish. We have not joined any affiliate programme yet.

We say this up front because the plan is to change it. A site that checks laws every week costs time to run, and the usual ways to pay for that are advertising and commission on kit sales. When we start either, this page will be updated first.

What affiliate links will look like

An affiliate link is one where we may earn a commission if you buy after clicking, at no extra cost to you. When we add them:

• A note will sit above any content that has them, not buried in a footer. Something like: "We may earn a commission if you buy through links on this page. It does not change what we say about a kit or where it is legal."
• Links will be marked in the HTML as paid links, so search engines know too.
• The pages that have them will be listed here, with the programme we joined.

What money can never change

• Legal status. Whether plug-in solar is legal in a state or in the UK comes from the law. Nobody can pay for a different answer.
• The order of kits. We will not move a kit up a list because it pays more. Where order matters, we explain the reason for it.
• Calculator numbers. The savings sum uses public data and shows its working. It has no commercial inputs.
• What we say about problems. A kit with a weakness will have it described, whether or not we earn from it.

Advertising

If we run display ads, each will be labelled "Advertisement" and kept away from the answer boxes, the state status table and the calculator. Ads come from a network, and we do not choose which companies appear in them. An ad for a kit does not mean we recommend that kit.

The rules we follow

In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission expects anyone paid to promote something to make the connection clear. In the UK, the Advertising Standards Authority enforces the same idea through the CAP Code, which asks that advertising be obviously identifiable as such. See the ASA for details. We apply the stricter of the two across the whole site, so UK and US readers get the same label.

Questions

If you see something on the site that looks like a paid link and is not labelled, tell us through the contact page. It will be treated as a correction, and logged on the corrections page. The wider rules are in our editorial policy.