Who funds this site

The short version, and the part most disclosure pages skip: no partner programme is connected to this site. There are no referral links on any page, no tracked sign-up buttons and no redirector. Clicking anything here earns us nothing from Pocket Option or from anyone else. If you came to this page expecting to find out what we get paid for your click, the honest answer today is nothing.

Then why have this page at all

Because the business model behind sites like this one is affiliate partnerships, and you should know that before you read a word of the reviews rather than after. WhitepostDesk is built on the same commercial premise as most brand-review publishers: at some point we intend to earn a commission when a reader we send to a platform opens an account there. That intention shapes what gets written even before any money changes hands, and pretending otherwise would be the dishonest option.

What we can tell you is exactly where things stand right now. No programme is wired up. The affiliate identifier and every referral destination in this site’s configuration are empty, the call-to-action blocks the template can render are switched off, and there is no /go/ redirector in use. That is a checkable statement, not a promise: view the source of any page on this site and you will find no outbound commercial link.

What happens if that changes

If a partner programme is ever connected, three things happen before the first commercial link goes live. This page gets rewritten to say what the arrangement is. The short disclosure line in the footer, which currently says no programme is connected, gets rewritten to match. And any paid link is marked as sponsored in the page markup, so a reader and a search engine can both see it for what it is.

We will not retro-fit commissions into old articles and leave the wording untouched. If the money changes, the disclosure changes at the same time.

What the money never buys

Not a verdict. Not a ranking position. Not the removal of an inconvenient fact. The regulatory pages on this site are the ones a partner would most want softened — the FCA’s permanent prohibition on selling, marketing and distributing binary options to retail consumers, the absence of any published FCA authorisation for this platform, the operator’s own notice naming the UK among the countries it does not serve — and those are precisely the pages that stay as they are.

There is also a limit that applies whatever the commercial position: we are not going to help anyone around a geographic restriction, because a commission would be a poor reason to talk someone into misrepresenting where they live.

Other ways money could reach a publisher

So you can check us against the full list rather than one item on it: we take no display advertising, no sponsored posts, no paid reviews, no paid placement in a comparison, and no payment to add or remove a brand. Nobody has bought a line on this site. If any of that ever changes, it belongs on this page too.

What we are not

We are not a broker, an introducer or an appointed representative. We hold no FCA authorisation, we are not on the Financial Services Register, and we do not want to be mistaken for a firm that is. We take no deposits, hold no client money and place no trades. Nothing on this site is a personal recommendation, and nothing here is regulated advice.

We also have not opened, funded or traded a live account with this platform, and no page claims we have. What we publish is an evaluation framework built from what the operator publishes and from public UK regulatory material, with the gaps marked as gaps.

Risk, stated plainly

Fixed-time and digital options are high-risk, short-horizon speculation, and most retail accounts in this product lose money. Losing the whole stake is an ordinary outcome. Read that sentence as if we were paid for your sign-up, because one day we might be — it would still be true.

Questions about this page, or about anything you think it leaves out, go to Miriam Ashworth, Retail Markets Editor via the contact page.