Full Transparency

How CouponHub Actually Works

No hidden agendas. No shady affiliate tricks. Here is exactly how we operate, how we make money, and what we will never do.

How We Make Money

When you click a link on CouponHub and make a purchase, the store pays us a small commission. This is called affiliate marketing. It costs you absolutely nothing extra. The price you pay is the same whether you come from CouponHub or type the URL directly.

We partner with affiliate networks like Awin, CJ Affiliate, and others. These networks handle the tracking and payments between us and the stores.

That is our only revenue source. We do not sell your data. We do not run display ads. We do not charge stores to list their codes.

What We Will Never Do

After the Honey scandal exposed how coupon extensions hide better deals and steal creator commissions, we want to be crystal clear about our principles:

Hide a better code to push one that pays us more

Override or steal affiliate links from content creators

Show fake "verified" badges on untested codes

Sell your browsing data or personal information

Run a browser extension that tracks your activity

List expired codes on purpose to generate clicks

Require a login or account to see coupon codes

What We Do Instead

Rank codes by user value, not commission rate
The best deal is always shown first, regardless of what we earn from it.

Show a Health Score on every code
A transparent 0-100 confidence rating based on user votes, code freshness, expiry date, and usage data. You can see exactly why a code is rated high or low.

Let the community verify codes
Every code gets thumbs-up/thumbs-down voting. Real users confirm whether codes work. We surface this data, not hide it.

Admin-verify before publishing
Every submitted code is reviewed by a human before it goes live. We do not auto-publish unverified codes.

Remove expired codes proactively
Expired codes are visually marked and deprioritized. We do not leave dead codes sitting at the top of the page for months.

How Codes Get On the Site

Codes come from three sources:

Community submissions -- anyone can submit a code through our submission form. Every submission is reviewed by an admin before it goes live.

Affiliate network feeds -- we import codes from CJ and Awin, which are the same networks major retailers use to distribute their promotions.

Direct retailer partnerships -- some stores provide exclusive codes directly to us.

Regardless of source, every code goes through the same Health Score system. A code from a direct partnership does not get preferential ranking over a community-submitted code. The algorithm treats them equally.

Your Privacy

We keep it simple:

No account required to browse or copy codes

No browser extension that monitors your shopping

No selling of personal data to third parties

No tracking pixels beyond basic analytics

Votes and favorites are stored in your browser (localStorage), not on our servers

When you click through to a store, standard affiliate tracking cookies are set by the store and its affiliate network. This is how the store knows to pay us a commission. These cookies are between you and the store, and we never see your purchase details.

Questions about how we operate? We are an open book.