Affiliate Policy

This page explains how Tenancy Agreement Service uses affiliate links — what they are, who we partner with, what we earn when you buy through them, and what you can expect from us when we recommend a third-party product. We’ve written it in plain language because affiliate disclosure that nobody reads doesn’t protect anybody. If you ever have questions about how a specific link or recommendation works on this site, the disclosure beside it will tell you what’s happening, and this page covers the broader picture.

What this policy covers

This page explains how Tenancy Agreement Service uses affiliate links — what they are, who we partner with, what we earn, and what you can expect from us when we recommend a third-party product. We’ve written it in plain language because affiliate disclosure that nobody reads doesn’t protect anybody.

If you ever have questions about how a specific link or recommendation works on this site, the disclosure beside it will tell you exactly what’s happening, and this page covers the broader picture.

What is an affiliate link

An affiliate link is a regular web link with a tracking parameter at the end. When you click an affiliate link from this site to a third-party provider, the link tells that provider you came from us. If you go on to buy something, the provider pays us a small commission. The price you pay is exactly the same as if you’d gone to the provider directly — affiliate commissions come out of the provider’s marketing budget, not added to your bill.

Affiliate marketing is how a lot of independent guidance sites fund themselves, including ours. The alternative would be advertising, paywalls, or pivoting to a model where we only recommend things we ourselves sell — none of which serves a landlord trying to find practical, honest information.

Who we currently partner with

At present, our only affiliate partner is Net Lawman — a UK provider of legal document templates that has operated since 2002. They sell residential tenancy templates, possession notices, supporting documents like inventories and guarantor forms, and a wide range of other legal templates outside our subject area. We chose Net Lawman because their residential landlord and tenant range is reasonably comprehensive, their pricing is transparent, and they offer a refund policy if a document doesn’t suit your circumstances.

We may add other affiliate partners in future. When we do, we’ll list them here and disclose them on every page where they appear.

How we choose what to recommend

We’ve selected Net Lawman as our affiliate partner because their range matches the documents most landlords need, but we want to be straight with you about what that does and doesn’t mean:

• We have not independently reviewed each Net Lawman template. They publish their own descriptions of what each document contains; on our commerce pages we summarise what they say about the product, but we have not bought and reviewed every template ourselves. The descriptions on this site are taken from what Net Lawman publishes about their own products.
• Some Net Lawman templates carry warnings from Net Lawman themselves. Where Net Lawman has indicated a template is not suitable for tenancies created after 1 May 2026 (because of the Renters’ Rights Act 2025), we don’t recommend that template for the relevant use case. The page on our site for that document type explains the position openly and suspends the recommendation until acceptable fulfilment is available.
• We don’t claim Net Lawman templates are the best on the market. They’re a competent option from a long-established provider, suitable for typical situations. For complex tenancies, unusual properties, or contentious situations, professional advice from a practising solicitor is more appropriate than any template.
• Editorial content and commercial recommendations are written separately. The educational guidance on this site (the substantial articles explaining the law, court procedure, landlord obligations and so on) is written without reference to whether it drives affiliate clicks. The commerce pages that recommend Net Lawman templates are clearly identified as such.

How we earn

Net Lawman pays us a percentage commission on every purchase made through our affiliate links. We won’t disclose the exact percentage because it varies and is part of our commercial arrangement, but it is in the range typical for legal-document affiliate programmes. The commission comes from Net Lawman’s marketing budget — your price is unaffected.

We do not earn anything from clicks alone. The commission is only paid if you go on to make a purchase. This means we only earn when our recommendation is acted upon, which we think is the honest way for affiliate income to work.

What we don’t do

• We don’t take payment for editorial coverage. No third party can pay to be mentioned in our guidance articles, to influence our coverage of legal topics, or to suppress content critical of their products.
• We don’t recommend products we wouldn’t be comfortable using ourselves. Net Lawman’s templates are competent generic legal documents; we don’t pretend they’re more than that.
• We don’t claim to have reviewed templates we haven’t bought. Where we haven’t independently checked a template, we say so in the disclosure beside the link.
• We don’t use affiliate links in our editorial guidance pages. Affiliate links appear only on the dedicated commerce pages (the ones in our Legal Documents section). Educational articles about tenancy law, eviction procedures, RRA 2025 changes and so on are free of affiliate links.

How to avoid affiliate links if you prefer

If you’d rather not use our affiliate links, you have several options:

• Visit Net Lawman directly at netlawman.co.uk rather than via our links. We won’t earn commission, but you’ll get the same product at the same price.
• Use a different provider entirely. The legal template market in the UK has several established providers, including Lawpack, Simply-Docs, Rocket Lawyer, and the National Residential Landlords Association (which offers templates as part of membership). Each has different strengths.
• Engage a solicitor to draft a bespoke document. For complex situations, this is often the right choice regardless of cost — a solicitor’s time on a specific matter produces something tailored to your circumstances, not a generic template.

There is no detriment to you in choosing any of these routes. Our role is to help you understand what a particular type of document does, when you need it, and what to look for. Where you actually buy (or don’t) is your decision.

The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 and our affiliate templates

The Renters’ Rights Act 2025 came into force on 1 May 2026 and reshaped large parts of residential landlord and tenant law in England. Most affected: assured shorthold tenancies (the standard residential tenancy framework), Section 21 “no-fault” possession, the grounds available under Section 8, and various procedural details around notices and rent increases.

Several Net Lawman templates carry their own warning that they are not suitable for tenancies created on or after 1 May 2026. Where this applies, we have removed the affiliate recommendation from the relevant page on our site and replaced it with a clear note explaining that we are not currently recommending fulfilment for that document type. We expect this position to change over the coming months as either Net Lawman updates their templates or alternative providers (including ourselves) make RRA-compliant templates available.

In the meantime, the educational content on those pages remains live and accurate, so you can understand what the document is, when you need it, and what to look for in any template you eventually use.

Honesty about limitations

Affiliate marketing has a poor reputation, partly because there is a lot of low-quality affiliate content on the web — sites that recommend whichever product pays the highest commission, write thin reviews of products they’ve never used, or hide the affiliate relationship to make it look like neutral editorial. We’re trying to do better than that, but we want to be candid about where we sit:

• We are not a comparison site. We don’t claim to have reviewed every alternative; we recommend Net Lawman because their range is broad and their reputation reasonable, not because we’ve benchmarked them against every competitor.
• We earn more if you buy. Like any affiliate site, we have a commercial interest in your clicking through and purchasing. We try to mitigate this by being honest about when a template isn’t suitable for you, but you should keep our incentive in mind when reading our recommendations.
• Templates have limits. Any pre-drafted template is a generic document, not advice on your specific situation. For straightforward typical lettings, a competent template is usually fine. For unusual circumstances, contentious tenancies, or high-value properties, the cost of a solicitor’s bespoke advice is often justified.

Updates to this policy

We update this page when our affiliate arrangements change — when we add or remove a partner, when commission structures change materially, or when our policy on a category of products shifts. We’ll note the date of the latest substantive update at the top of the page.

If you have a question about this policy or about a specific affiliate link on the site, you can reach us via our contact page.

Useful links

• Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008 (gov.uk) — the principal UK consumer-protection regime for commercial communications.
• Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (gov.uk) — the post-April-2025 enforcement regime for unfair commercial practices.
• ASA guidance on affiliate marketing.
• Our legal documents section — where the affiliate links appear.