Last updated August 5th 2026
Some links on Talent Circle earn us — or the member who posted them — a small commission. This page explains which ones, and what that means for you. It took effect on August 5th 2026.
The short version: an affiliate link never costs you anything extra. The commission comes out of the retailer's margin, not your pocket, and the price you pay is the same as if you had gone to the retailer directly.
Some links to books, films, equipment, and other products carry a tracking code. If you buy something after following one, the retailer pays a small commission to whoever owns that code.
You are never charged for this, you are not tracked into anything you did not choose, and you are free to ignore the link entirely and search for the product yourself.
London Screenwriters Festival Ltd (company number 10369656), of Ealing Studios, Ealing Green, London, W5 5EP and members of Talent Circle participate in the Amazon Associates Programme, an affiliate advertising programme designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
Amazon operates separate stores for different countries. A link may open the store it was written for and Amazon may then offer to move you to your own country's store. We do not detect your location or redirect you — that offer comes from Amazon, and whether the tracking code survives the move is Amazon's decision, not ours.
It depends on who put the link there. Links on a member's own page, shop, or book listing carry that member's code and pay that member. Links on a circle's recommended-kit page, and the buy buttons we build ourselves from a book's Amazon reference number, carry ours and help pay for running the Service.
On those pages we publish ourselves, our tracking code is added by the site as the page loads rather than typed into each link by hand, and it replaces any tracking code already in the address. That is so a single change to our code takes effect everywhere at once. It is one code for the whole site: we do not set a different one per member, per circle, or per country.
A link a member entered as their own buy link is never altered, and neither is a link to any retailer other than Amazon.
Where a link earns us a commission, you are reading the disclosure that says so. Where it earns a member a commission, the same duty falls on them: our Acceptable Use Policy forbids undisclosed advertising, and a member who hides a commercial relationship can have the link, the listing, or their account removed under it.
Not every outbound link is an affiliate link. Links to film databases, festivals, publishers, and most retailers other than Amazon carry no tracking code and earn nobody anything. They are there because they are useful.
Nothing is recommended, featured, ranked, or published on Talent Circle because it earns a commission, and a commission never buys a place in a course, a shortlist, a recommendation, or an editorial decision.
Product information, star ratings, and descriptions come from the retailer or from the member who created the listing. We do not review or endorse the products we link to, and a link is not a recommendation unless the page says in words that it is one.
A tracking code is part of the web address itself, so following a link does not set a cookie on Talent Circle. Any cookie is set by the retailer once you arrive on their site, under their privacy policy and their cookie rules, and it is their record of the visit, not ours.
We do not receive your name, your address, your payment details, or a list of what you bought. Retailers report earnings to us as totals, not as people. See our Cookie Policy and Privacy Policy for what happens on our side.
If you want to know whether a particular link earns a commission, ask us at chris@londonswf.com and we will tell you plainly.