Affiliate Disclosure
Effective date: 9 October 2026
Someone pays for this course to exist. This page says who, how much of the site it touches, and what it does not buy. It is the long version of the box that sits under the heading on the homepage.
What an affiliate link is
An affiliate link is an ordinary link with a tag on the end that tells the destination which site sent you. If you then do a particular thing — here, register an account and confirm your email address — the company running the scheme pays the referring site a fee. The fee comes out of the vendor's marketing budget. It is not added to anything you pay, and following an affiliate link never costs more than reaching the same page another way.
Where ours are
There are two affiliate links in the course itself, plus one example further down this page. All three point to the same destination, and all three are to the game Enlisted:
- In Step 3, in the section on finding a particular game's classification, agreement and store information.
- In Step 4, in the section on installing from the right place.
Both carry a line of text immediately underneath saying what they are. They are plain links: the address you see in your browser's status bar when you hover over one is the address you go to, with no redirect of ours in the middle, no script rewriting the destination, and no page in between. They open in a new tab so that you do not lose your place in the step.
Visit the Enlisted website
Paid affiliate link, shown here so you can see what one looks like. If you register and confirm your email address after following it, we are paid a commission by the affiliate network that operates the link, at no additional cost to you.
Every other link in the course — to the Australian Classification Board, Scamwatch, the eSafety Commissioner, the OAIC, the ACCC and the Australian Cyber Security Centre — is an ordinary link that earns us nothing.
What we are paid for
The commission is paid for sign-ups: a reader who follows the link, registers an account, confirms the email address and logs in to the game. We are not paid for a visit, and we are not paid a share of anything you spend inside the game afterwards. Amounts vary by country and are set by the network rather than by us.
What the commission does not decide
It does not decide what any step says. The five steps are written to apply to online PC games as a category, and every instruction in them works with a game we have never heard of. If following our advice means you read an agreement, find a classification and decide the game is not for you, the course has worked as intended and we are not paid. That outcome is acceptable to us, and if it were not we would have written something else.
It does not decide whether a caution appears. Step 3 treats randomised paid items as something to decide deliberately, Step 4 tells you to untick marketing boxes, and Step 5 tells you how to close an account and request deletion of your personal information. None of that is in the interest of a vendor paying for sign-ups, and all of it stays.
It does not buy praise. We do not describe any game as the best, the biggest or the most enjoyable, because we have run no comparison that could support such a claim and we are not going to invent one. We publish no reviews, no star ratings, no scores and no test results.
It does not create a relationship that does not exist. We are not an official source, a partner, a reseller or an authorised distributor for any game publisher. Nobody has endorsed this course or reviewed it before publication.
What does decide the content
Three things. First, the order in which a beginner actually meets problems — that is where the five steps come from, and the editorial method on our About page describes how they were built. Second, what Australian public bodies publish: the Classification Board on classification, the ACCC on consumer law, the OAIC on privacy, eSafety on online safety, and the ACSC on account security. Third, what a vendor states about its own product, with anything unstated left out rather than guessed at.
Why this particular game is the one named
Because of the commercial relationship. That is the honest answer, and giving a dressed-up one would be the kind of conduct the Australian Consumer Law prohibits. Enlisted is named in two steps as a concrete illustration of a registration process the course describes in general terms. The description of it repeats only what the network promoting it states: a new game set in the atmosphere of the Second World War, published for desktop computers — Mac, Windows and Linux — with a sign-up completed by registration, confirmation of the email address and logging in. Where the network states no price, no system requirement and no Australian classification, none appears here.
You can ignore the links entirely
The course is complete without them. All five steps, all six checklists and the printable All checklists page are free to read, require no account and ask for nothing from you. Nothing is held back behind a click, and there is no version of the course for people who follow the link.
What happens to your information
We do not know who follows a link. The network sends us reports so that payment can be reconciled, and we neither seek nor want anything in them that would identify a reader. Once you leave this domain, the vendor's and the network's own policies apply, and they may use cookies on their own sites to attribute the referral. The Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy set this out in detail, including the fact that this site itself sets no cookies at all.
Trade marks
All brand names on Neat Motif, Enlisted 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 Neat Motif, and none has endorsed or sponsored it.
Questions
If anything on this page is unclear, or you think a disclosure is missing somewhere it should be, write to info@neatmotif.online. Published by KASSANDRA, spol. s r.o., Pod Stráněmi 818, 760 01 Zlín, Czech Republic, company registration 48911097.