Affiliate disclosure

Rive Gauche Style is an independent editorial site. We publish guides about clothes. We do not operate a shop, and we do not speak as any merchant.

What the buttons do today

Essays may include a button such as “Open the Nordstrom homepage.” That button goes through a path on this site, /go/…, and then sends you to the retailer's public homepage. The destination is the homepage we configured, not a hidden page and not a tracking link we invented.

Those buttons are placeholders. They are not affiliate links. Rive Gauche Style does not earn a commission if you continue on to the retailer, browse, or buy. The click is yours. Nothing on the page redirects you by itself.

If a real affiliate link is added

The site is built so a later editor can replace a homepage placeholder with an approved affiliate URL. If that happens, the button will be marked as a commercial link, and this page will say that we may earn a commission if you buy, at no extra cost you would not otherwise pay. Until that replacement is made, do not read a button as a paid endorsement.

What we will not claim

We do not set prices, promo codes, stock, or return rules. We do not describe a price as the lowest, and we do not promise a saving. A sale essay explains how to shop a sale — lists, inspection, return windows — and then leaves the live terms on the retailer's site. Those terms change.

Editorial independence

A retailer link does not mean the retailer reviewed, approved, or paid for the essay. Recommendations, where we make them, are about method: how a shoulder should sit, how to read a care label, what to compare before you buy. They are not a promise that a garment will fit you.

Questions about this policy can go to the editorial team through the contact page.