Affiliate Disclosure

1Overview

The Pharm operates a healthcare-resume rewrite and career-coaching service. Our primary revenue is the tier-based service ($179 / $295 / $545 plus add-ons). To support free educational content — the profession landing pages, the resume-examples gallery, the blog cluster, the free 60-second resume read — we participate in a small number of affiliate programs for tools we genuinely use and recommend.

This disclosure applies to every page on thepharmwcg.com that displays an affiliate placement.

2FTC compliance and disclosure standards

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission requires “clear and conspicuous” disclosure when a website is paid to recommend something. We comply with these standards from 16 CFR Part 255 — the Endorsement Guides:

• Every affiliate placement on the Service displays a visible Affiliate pill badge.
• The disclosure is in the same vicinity as the recommendation (not buried in a footer or hidden behind a click).
• The disclosure language is plain English, not legalese.
• We disclose before you click, not after.
• We do not require you to read this page before seeing the disclosure — the “Affiliate” pill on each card is sufficient on its own.
• Disclosure appears at every affiliate placement, including when the same page shows multiple placements in different positions (for example, one near the middle of an article and one at the end).

3Current affiliate partners

As of the Last Updated date, we earn commissions from the following partners:

Additional partners may be added over time. Each new partner will appear in this table within 30 days of activation. If you ever see an affiliate link on the site that’s not in this table, email [email protected] and we’ll either add it here or remove the link.

4How affiliate commissions work

When you click an affiliate link on our Service, the following happens:

• You’re redirected through our internal click-tracker (/r/<slot-id>/<partner-slug>?cid=<creative-id>) which logs the impression and click in our database.
• You’re then forwarded to the partner’s site via a tracking URL the partner provides.
• If you sign up, subscribe, or take whatever action the partner’s program rewards, we receive a commission — the amount and timing depending on the partner’s program (CPC, flat-rate per signup, percentage of first-year revenue, recurring revenue share, etc.).
• You pay nothing extra. The commission comes from the partner’s marketing budget.

5What we never do

Some boundaries we hold regardless of commission size:

We also do not:

• Use undisclosed affiliate links anywhere on the Service.
• Disable, hide, or obscure the Affiliate disclosure label.
• Write fake reviews or pay for fake reviews of partner products.
• Run incentivized clicks (“click this link to get a discount”).
• Self-refer through our own affiliate links (we don’t earn commission on our own clicks).
• Engage in cookie-stuffing, click fraud, or other tactics prohibited by the partner’s program rules.

6How we select affiliate partners

Before adding any partner to the affiliate stack, we require:

• Audience fit — does the product or service solve a real problem for a healthcare professional in our audience? If we wouldn’t recommend it to a colleague, we don’t list it.
• Quality bar — Keyerrá or one of her trusted peers has actually used the product, or the product is widely accepted as professional-grade in its category.
• Clean program rules — partner does not require us to violate FTC rules, hide disclosures, or write specific content under their direction.
• Reasonable program terms — payouts on actual conversions, not gameable click-throughs; clear tracking; partner doesn’t penalize us for organic, contextual placement.
• Privacy posture — partner has a published privacy policy and complies with major privacy laws (GDPR, CCPA, etc.).

7Does compensation influence content?

The honest answer: compensation gives us a budget to maintain the recommendation (server costs, content production, the free educational layer), but it does not change which partners we list.

Our editorial process: Keyerrá identifies a tool she’d recommend regardless. We check whether the tool has an affiliate program. If it does, we apply. If we’re approved, we add it to the affiliate stack. If not, we still recommend the tool — without the affiliate link.

If a partner asked us to:

• Bury the disclosure → we say no.
• Write a positive review of a feature we hadn’t actually used → we say no.
• Stop linking to a competitor we recommended first → we say no.
• Hide negative information about the product → we say no.

If a partner’s service quality drops or they violate our criteria, we deactivate the affiliate placement — even if the commission is profitable.

8Does it cost you anything?

No. The price you pay the affiliate partner is the same whether you reach them through our link, through their direct URL, or through any other source. The commission we earn comes from the partner’s marketing budget — it’s already factored into the partner’s pricing as a customer-acquisition cost.

Some partners offer special discounts or extended trials through our links. When that’s the case, we’ll surface the offer explicitly in the affiliate placement copy.

9Tracking and your privacy

When you click an affiliate link, our tracker logs:

• Which slot displayed the affiliate (e.g., nursing_below_hero).
• Which creative was shown (e.g., the “nursing EBP” variant).
• An anonymized session hash (not your name, email, or IP — a 30-minute time-bucket hash that resets, used for impression deduplication).
• A timestamp.

The partner’s tracking system may set a cookie on the partner’s domain to attribute conversions back to The Pharm. We do not see, control, or share that cookie’s contents — it’s a transaction between your browser and the partner. Partner cookie practices are governed by the partner’s privacy policy.

See our Cookie Policy for full detail on which cookies The Pharm sets.

10Your options if you don't want to support affiliates

If you’d rather not contribute to our affiliate revenue:

• You can navigate to the partner’s website directly without clicking our link — you still get the same product at the same price.
• You can use a browser extension that blocks affiliate redirects.
• You can choose to ignore affiliate placements entirely. We don’t gate any free content (profession pages, resume examples, blog posts, the 60-second read) on clicking affiliate links.

None of these reduces the value you receive from The Pharm or affects your access to the Service.

11Errors and corrections

If you spot an error on this page (an outdated commission rate, a partner we’ve removed, a missing partner from a placement you’ve seen on the site), email [email protected]. We correct factual errors within 5 business days.

12Changes to this disclosure

We may update this Affiliate Disclosure to add or remove partners, update commission models, or improve language clarity. The “Last updated” date at the top reflects the most recent revision. For material changes (e.g., adding a new category of partner) we will provide at least 30 days’ notice on the homepage. Continued use of the Service after the effective date constitutes acceptance.

13Contact

Questions, concerns, or notices regarding this policy should be directed to:

Email is not a confidential channel. Do not include sensitive personal data (Social Security numbers, full bank-account numbers, etc.) in your correspondence.

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