Affiliate disclosure
Required by the FTC (US), the CMA (UK), and EU consumer-protection law. We're telling you how the lights stay on so you can decide whether to trust the rankings.
How we earn money
Delta-X is an independent directory. When you click a link to a prop firm from our site and complete a purchase, the firm pays us a commission. Typical commissions are $50 to $500 per qualified sign-up, depending on the firm and the account tier.
The button that takes you to a firm is wired through /r/<firm-slug> — that redirector tags the click with an affiliate identifier and records it so we get paid if you buy. It records device class, the country code from your CDN headers, a SHA-256-hashed IP, and the UTM parameters. We do not record your raw IP, your name, or anything that identifies you personally.
What this means for rankings
Affiliate revenue does not influence the trust score, the comparison results, the category rankings, or the placement on country pages. All of those are derived from the public rule schema and verified reviews via the formulas documented in our methodology.
Where we DO take direct payment for placement, it is for sponsored slots labeled "Sponsored"on the card itself. Sponsored placements never appear in the editorial rankings, trust score, comparison results, or country pages. They sit in dedicated "Featured" sections that are visually distinct from the editorial list and always carry the disclosure badge above the fold per FTC 16 CFR Part 255.
Sponsored placements
Firms can pay Delta-X to appear in clearly labeled "Featured" sections at the top of /firms, category pages, and (in future) the homepage hero. These placements:
- Are always tagged "Sponsored" with a high-contrast badge.
- Use HTML
rel="sponsored"on outbound links per Google's 2019 link attribute spec. - Do NOT change the firm's position in the editorial ranking or trust score.
- Can be paused or removed at any time via internal moderation; we reserve the right to refuse sponsorship from any firm whose rules we consider deceptive or whose payout reliability we cannot verify.
Firms with no affiliate program
Some firms we track don't run affiliate programs. We still list them and rank them on merit; we just don't earn anything when you click. We don't penalize them for that.
Your right to read this and bail
Every firm profile shows two links: an affiliate link (which earns us a commission) and a direct "no-affiliate" link to the firm's unmodified URL. Use the direct link if you don't want us to be paid for your click. The ranking and rules we publish don't change either way.
Updates
Last updated: 2026-05-19. We update this page whenever the commercial relationships change. The repository history is the canonical record.