🌐 How we handle Amazon

We want to make sure all donistas have the best possible shopping experience. That's why we're happy to offer Amazon too. Amazon is a special case at donista, because it is legally and technically not possible for us to credit affiliate commissions directly and 100% to the organisations you've chosen.

We therefore use these revenues in two ways:

• to cover donista's operating costs, and

• to support additional fundraising campaigns for listed organisations.

In this way, Amazon creates an indirect but very important foundation for our work: only when our operating costs are covered can we pass on the full benefit of our work to the charities.

⚙️ What does "operating costs" mean for an online service?

For donista to work reliably and be available to you at all times, ongoing costs are incurred. This operational effort is necessary so that the platform runs smoothly from a technical, organisational and legal perspective.

These include, for example:

• Server and hosting costs for the stable operation of our platform

• Maintenance and further development of the website and app, so that donista keeps getting better

• Security measures to protect your data and the partner interfaces

• Fees for interfaces and tools that connect donista with shops and payment services

• Legal and organisational expenses, such as accounting, data protection and licences

In short: these costs are the foundation that allows donista to exist and lets us together turn purchases into donations. By the way: we all work voluntarily for donista — no salaries are paid.

💚 Our goal: maximum donation volume

Through revenues from the Amazon Partner Programme and other income sources not directly linked to individual users, we aim to cover our operating costs as fully as possible.

This has a decisive advantage for you and all charities: we can pass on 100% of the affiliate commissions you generate through other partner shops as a donation.

This means:

• Your purchase via donista generates the maximum possible donation amount there.

• Amazon contributes indirectly by covering our basic costs.

• Every organisation benefits, as your purchases in other shops can be converted entirely into donations.

✨ Summary

Amazon is different from other shops: we cannot and are not permitted to allocate the revenues from there directly to individual charities — instead we use them for our operating costs. These costs are necessary for donista to function — from servers to further development to legal expenses.

By helping us cover these costs, Amazon creates the foundation that allows us to pass on 100% of commissions from all other partners.

👉 Amazon – helps cover operating costs – making your purchase via donista the key to a 100% donation rate at all other shops.