How the guides stay honest
A cashback platform writing about cashback has an obvious conflict of interest. These are the rules that keep our content useful to people who never sign up — which is the only standard that makes it trustworthy for people who do.
The six rules
One rate source, everywhere
Every rate in a guide, calculator or comparison comes from the same live tables that credit member wallets. If a guide and the app ever disagree, that's a bug we fix — not a marketing decision.
Dated, maintained, or deleted
Every guide shows its last-updated date. When partner rates change, the affected guides change the same cycle. Content too stale to maintain gets deleted rather than left to mislead.
Risk boxes on money content
Every trading, crypto and prop-firm guide carries an honesty box: rebates reduce costs — they do not make losing strategies win, and volume farmed for rebates is negative-sum. If that costs us signups, so be it.
'Up to' always shows its table
Any 'up to X%' claim links to the per-store or per-broker table behind it. Headline rates without visible tables are how this industry misleads people — we publish the table or we don't print the number.
No fake authors
Guides are researched and written by the UTSPlus team and published under the team byline. No invented personas, no stock-photo 'experts'. Expertise claims we can't back don't get made.
Paid placement is labeled
Rate tables sort by the numbers. If a partner ever pays for visibility, the placement carries a label. A recommendation you can't distinguish from an ad is an ad.
Process notes
Where numbers come from
Partner rates come from our own partner agreements and are re-verified against partner reporting each update cycle. Industry figures (commission norms, points-devaluation data) cite the category standard and are marked as industry-wide, not UTSPlus-specific.
How the conflict of interest is handled
We earn commissions when members use partner links — the same model as every comparison site. The mitigation is structural, not rhetorical: published tables, labeled placements, risk boxes, and guides written to be correct even for readers who never click anything. The full model is on the How we make money page.
Corrections
Factual errors get corrected in place and the updated date reflects it. Material corrections (a wrong rate, a wrong rule) are noted at the bottom of the guide. Spot one? support@utsplus.com — corrections make the fortress stronger.
The revenue model itself is documented on How we make money. Browse everything we've published at the guides hub.
Honest content. Honest wallet.
The same standard applies to both — that's the point.