Affiliate Disclosure

Effective date: 9 October 2026

This page explains how Valid Layer pays for itself. It is written so that you can judge the course knowing exactly what sits behind it, which is the only honest way to publish something that carries paid links.

The arrangement in one paragraph

Valid Layer is published by Meljaro s. r. o., Vinohradská 3216/165, Strašnice, 100 00 Praha 10, Czech Republic, company registration 07137010. The course names one product, Crossout, that we are paid to link to. The links go through an affiliate network, and if you register an account, confirm your email address and sign in after following one of them, that network pays Meljaro s. r. o. a commission. Nothing you do costs you more because the link was ours, and the product costs you exactly what it would have cost had you typed the address yourself.

Where the affiliate links appear

There are three, and they are in the same visual box each time, with the explanation printed beside them rather than hidden behind a symbol.

• Step 1, where the game is used as an example of the free-to-play arrangement.
• Step 3, where you are sent to the vendor's own page to read what its shop sells.
• Step 4, which is about registering an account — the point at which the commission is actually earned, said there as well as here.

Every other link in the course — to the Australian Classification Board, the ACCC, the OAIC, the eSafety Commissioner, Scamwatch and the Australian Cyber Security Centre — is an ordinary link. Nobody pays us for those, and nobody could.

What commission does not decide

It does not decide what the five steps say. The sequence of the course — business model, hardware, classification and spending, account setup, living with it afterwards — was fixed before any product was attached to it, and no step was added, removed or reordered to make room for a link.

It does not decide which products are mentioned. A product is named when it illustrates something the step was already explaining. Where the example did not fit, there is no example.

It does not decide what we say about the product. Every factual statement about Crossout in this course comes from the vendor's own description of it: a free-to-play online game set in post-apocalyptic surroundings, in which players build and modify their own combat vehicles, available for desktop computers running Windows or Linux. Where the vendor does not state something, the course says that rather than guessing, which is why Step 2 sends you to the vendor's own requirements page instead of reproducing it here.

And it does not buy an opinion. The course does not review, score, rank or recommend any product, and it contains no claim that one game is better, safer or more suitable than another. Those judgements are yours to make, which is what the checklists are for.

What does decide the content

Three things. What a beginner actually needs to decide, in the order they have to decide it. What Australian government bodies publish about classification, consumer rights, privacy, online safety and scams — linked each time so you can check us. And what vendors state about their own products, treated as their statement rather than as established fact.

The method behind all of that, including how often the course is reviewed, is described on the About page.

You can finish the course without clicking anything

This matters enough to say on its own. Every step is complete as written. Nothing is withheld behind a link, no checklist depends on having visited a vendor, and a reader who installs no game at all has still got the whole of what the course offers. If you removed all three affiliate links tomorrow, the course would lose three examples and nothing else.

What we receive, and what we do not

The affiliate network sends us commission reports: counts of referred registrations and the amounts payable. We use them to reconcile payments and for nothing else. We do not ask for information identifying individual readers, do not want it, and have no way of connecting a report to anybody who visited this site. The Privacy Policy sets out what the network and the vendor may do on their own domains once you leave ours.

Trademarks

All brand names on Valid Layer, Crossout among them, are the property of their owners. Except for the paid affiliate links described on our funding page, none of those owners is affiliated with Valid Layer, and none has endorsed or sponsored it.

Questions

If anything about this arrangement is unclear, or if you think a page on this site reads as though it were written to sell rather than to explain, write to info@validlayer.online. That is a correction we would want to make.