Affiliate disclosure

The statement

As an Amazon Associate, Cam & Canopy earns from qualifying purchases. When you click a “Check price on Amazon” button or another product link on this site and buy something on Amazon, Amazon pays Iron Mako Media a commission. It costs you nothing extra; the price you pay is Amazon's price.

Which links earn

Every buy button and product link on the site. They route through a short redirect on our own domain (the address starts with /go/) that adds our Amazon Associates tag and then sends you to Amazon. Those links are marked in the page code as sponsored, and a “#ad” note with a link to this page sits under every buy button, including the ones that read “Check price” with no number. A link to a manufacturer's spec page, a plan page, or an independent test is a plain reference link and earns nothing.

Active affiliate relationships as of launch: Amazon. No other affiliate network or brand program is active; links to camera makers' own sites (Tactacam, Spypoint, Moultrie, Stealth Cam, Browning, Bushnell, Reconyx, GardePro, CAMLOCKbox, HME, Master Lock) are untracked reference links. If that changes, this page will say so.

Where the prices and the product photos come from

Amazon prices change daily and Amazon's rules require any displayed price to be current, so we never retype one. The number inside a buy button and the product photo beside it both come from Amazon's own product API for the exact listing that button links to, stamped with the date they were read. Once that stamp is more than 48 hours old the number disappears on its own and the button falls back to “Check price on Amazon” — it is never allowed to show a stale figure. Where Amazon has no listing for a product we rank, the button still reads “Check price on Amazon” and the card carries a labeled stock photo of the product's category rather than a picture of the wrong camera. Plan prices are different: they're list prices read from the maker's plan page, printed with the date they were read and a link.

What commissions don't change

The rankings. Every score is a weighted mean of published rubric metrics (How We Rank), fixed before a product is scored. A product's commission rate is not one of the metrics. Several picks on this site link to makers' sites or to plan pages that earn us nothing; they're there because they answer the question. Full detail in the editorial policy.

FTC

This disclosure is provided in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's guidelines on endorsements and affiliate marketing. Cam & Canopy is operated by Iron Mako Media. Questions: contact@camandcanopy.com.