Welcome to the affiliate disclosure for LifeStyleBean. If you are reading this page, you probably want a straight answer to a fair question: does LifeStyleBean make money from the products it mentions? The short answer is yes, sometimes — through affiliate links and occasional sponsored content. This page explains exactly how that works, what it means for you, and the promises we make to keep every recommendation honest. This page itself contains no affiliate links and no product recommendations of any kind.

Key Highlights

• LifeStyleBean participates in the Amazon Associates Program on Amazon India (amazon.in). As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases.
• Affiliate links never cost you anything extra. The price you pay on Amazon is exactly the same whether you use our link or go there directly.
• Our opinions are our own. Commissions do not buy favorable reviews, and we only endorse products we genuinely believe are worth your money.
• Affiliate links appear only on yoga-related content — yoga mats, blocks, straps, cushions, and other yoga gear. Our coffee content, such as our coffee gear guides, carries no affiliate links at all.
• Sponsored or paid content is always labeled clearly as such, and you can reach us with any question about this policy through our contact page.

What This Affiliate Disclosure Covers

LifeStyleBean (lifestylebean.com) is a yoga and lifestyle blog. Like most independent blogs, we need revenue to survive — to pay for hosting, to research topics properly, and to test the gear we write about. One way we earn that revenue is through affiliate marketing: when you click certain product links on our site and make a purchase, the retailer pays us a small commission.

This disclosure covers every compensated relationship on this website: affiliate links (mainly through Amazon), and sponsored or paid content where a brand pays for placement. It does not cover ordinary links to our own articles or to sites we are not partnered with — no money changes hands there.

Transparency is not just a legal obligation for us; it is the foundation of the trust our readers place in us. You deserve to know when a recommendation carries a financial relationship behind it, so you can judge it with full information.

Our Participation in the Amazon Associates Program

LifeStyleBean is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon. Because most of our readers shop in India, the links on our site point to Amazon India (amazon.in). The statement Amazon requires every participant to display appears below, word for word:

As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

What does that mean in practice? On certain posts — most notably our yoga mat buying guide and our guide to yoga supplements — you will find product links that include our Amazon Associate tag (iadesigner-21). When you click one of those links and buy something, Amazon pays us a percentage of the sale. Amazon, the Amazon logo, and the Amazon Supply logo are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.

We also place a clear disclosure near the top of every post that contains affiliate links, so you do not have to scroll to this page to discover the relationship.

How Amazon Affiliate Links Work

A normal product link and an affiliate link take you to the same Amazon product page. The only difference is a small tracking code that tells Amazon, "this customer arrived from LifeStyleBean." It changes nothing about your shopping experience — not the product, seller, delivery, or return policy — except who gets a thank-you commission if you buy.

What Affiliate Links Cost You

Nothing. This is the most common misunderstanding about affiliate marketing, so let us be explicit: clicking an affiliate link and buying through it costs you exactly the same as buying directly. Amazon pays the commission out of its own margin — you will never pay a higher price because you arrived through our link, and never a lower one either.

Sponsored Content and Paid Placements

Occasionally, a brand may pay us to publish a post, place a banner, or feature a product. When that happens, the content is labeled clearly as sponsored or paid content — typically right at the top of the article. We do not disguise paid placements as ordinary editorial content, and we do not let payment turn into an endorsement we do not mean.

Affiliate links reward us only if readers genuinely find a product worth buying — our interest and yours are aligned. Sponsored content is paid for regardless, which is why we label it conspicuously: so you can read it with the right context.

Our Reviews and Opinions Are Our Own

No brand pays us for our opinions. We are never directly compensated to provide a favorable opinion about a product, a service, or a website, and the views expressed on LifeStyleBean are purely those of our authors. If we claim expertise on a topic and recommend products within it, we do so because we believe — based on that expertise — that the product is genuinely worthy of the recommendation.

Commissions do not influence our rankings. A product that pays a higher commission rate does not get a better review or a higher position in our guides than a product we consider superior.

One important note about ratings: the star ratings shown on LifeStyleBean reflect our own subjective opinion of the products. They do not reflect Amazon's star rating system, and they are not Amazon's ratings repackaged. To see how other buyers rated a product, please check its reviews on Amazon before making your purchase — we encourage you to form your own judgment and make sure the product is right for you.

Why We Disclose: Transparency and the FTC

Honest disclosure is required by both the Amazon Associates Operating Agreement and the advertising guidelines of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the United States, and we treat it as a non-negotiable standard regardless of where our readers live. The principle is simple and worth stating plainly: if there is a financial connection between us and a product we recommend, you have a right to know about it before you trust the recommendation.

Beyond compliance, disclosure is good business for an independent blog. Our audience finds us because they trust our yoga and lifestyle guidance, so our disclosures are placed where you can actually see them — near the affiliate links, at the top of monetized posts — and never buried in fine print.

Where You'll Find Disclosures on This Site

This page is the master reference, but you should not have to visit it to know when a link is monetized. Every post with affiliate links carries its own clear disclosure near the top, stating that it contains affiliate links and that we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Pages without that notice contain no affiliate links.

Our legal documents work together. This disclosure policy sits alongside our Privacy Policy, which explains how we handle your data, and our Terms and Conditions, which set out the rules of using this site. We recommend reading all three together for the full picture.

Affiliate Links and Your Privacy

Clicking an affiliate link sends you to Amazon, which sets its own cookies and applies its own privacy policy to your visit. We do not see your personal shopping data, your order details, or your account information — Amazon shares only aggregate information with us, such as how many clicks a link received. For how we handle any data collected on this site itself, see our Privacy Policy.

Have Questions About This Policy?

If anything on this page is unclear, or if you want to ask about a specific link or recommendation, please get in touch with us. We would rather answer your question than leave you wondering. We review this policy periodically and update it when our practices change; the last update was in 2026.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is an affiliate link?

An affiliate link is an ordinary product link that includes a small tracking code identifying which website sent the customer. When you click a link on LifeStyleBean and buy the product on Amazon India (amazon.in), that code tells Amazon the sale came from us, and Amazon pays us a small commission out of its own margin. The product, the seller, the delivery, and the return policy are exactly the same as if you had visited Amazon directly.

Do affiliate links change the price I pay on Amazon?

No. Clicking one of our affiliate links and buying through it costs you exactly the same as going to Amazon directly — never more, never less. The commission we receive is paid by Amazon out of its own margin, so there is no extra cost to you whatsoever. Using our affiliate links is simply a way to support LifeStyleBean at no cost to yourself.

Is LifeStyleBean paid to recommend specific products?

No. We are never paid for our opinions, and commissions do not buy favorable reviews or better rankings. We only recommend or endorse products we genuinely believe are worth your money, based on our research and experience with the topic. If a product appears in one of our guides, it is there because we think it deserves the place — not because of the commission rate attached to it.

Which pages on LifeStyleBean contain affiliate links?

Affiliate links appear only in our yoga-related buying content, where they help readers find the gear we write about — for example, our yoga mat buying guide and our guide to yoga supplements. We only ever place affiliate links on yoga-related products, and never on our coffee content or anything outside yoga gear. Every page that contains affiliate links carries a clear disclosure near the top of the article, so you will always know.

Do the star ratings on LifeStyleBean come from Amazon?

No. The star ratings shown on LifeStyleBean reflect our own subjective opinion of the products we review. They do not reflect Amazon's star rating system, and they are not Amazon's ratings repackaged or endorsed by Amazon. To see how other buyers rated a product, please check the product's reviews on Amazon itself before making your purchase.

Who can I contact if I have a question about this policy?

You can reach us anytime through our contact page. If you have a question about a specific link, a recommendation, or anything else in this disclosure, we will answer it directly. Transparency only works if it is a two-way conversation, and we welcome yours.