Affiliate Disclosure

Effective date: 9 October 2026

Blank Index carries no advertising and charges nothing to read. It is paid in one way only: commission on sign-ups made through the affiliate links in the course. This page says exactly how that works, so you can judge the course knowing what is behind it.

The arrangement in one paragraph

I&M ALEX s.r.o., the publisher of this site, is signed up with an affiliate network that represents the advertiser for Crossout. Links in the course that point at that advertiser carry an identifier belonging to us. If you follow one and then create an account and confirm your email address, the network records that the sign-up came from here and credits us a commission. The commission is paid out of the advertiser's marketing budget. You are not charged for it, the game's own terms are not altered by the route you took, and nothing about your account differs from one created by someone who typed the address directly.

Where the affiliate links appear

There are five of them on this site, and each carries a note beside it saying what it is. They appear in these places:

• On the course overview, in the section explaining where Crossout appears in the course and why.
• In Step 1, beneath the description of the example game.
• In Step 2, where you are sent to the vendor's own page to read the current system requirements.
• In Step 3, beside the explanation of what the email confirmation step is for.
• In Step 5, in the section on classification.

They are ordinary links. The address in the link is the address you go to — there is no redirect of our own in the middle, no script rewriting where the link points, and no encoded destination. If you hover over one, your browser's status bar shows you the real address before you click, and that is deliberate.

Each link is marked up so that search engines treat it as paid: rel="sponsored nofollow noopener". They open in a new tab so that the step you were reading stays where it was.

What the commission is paid for

It is paid for a completed sign-up: an account created, an email address confirmed, and a first sign-in. It is not paid for a click, not paid for reading the course, and not a share of anything you spend inside the game afterwards. Whether you spend money later makes no difference to what we receive.

Commission is reported to us by the network as counts and amounts. We do not receive, and do not ask for, any information identifying the people behind them. The Privacy Policy explains what we do with those reports, which is reconcile payments and nothing else.

What the commission does not decide

This is the part worth being specific about, because “we only recommend what we believe in” is the stock phrase and it is unfalsifiable.

The commission does not decide what the five steps say. The hardware method in Step 2 is the method we would give for any PC game. The six things to read in a privacy notice in Step 3 are general and apply to any service. Step 4 is deliberately written about the category rather than about one product's screens, which is why it names no menus and shows no interface. Step 5, the step a commercial publisher would be most tempted to soften, is written to slow spending down: it asks you to convert to Australian dollars, to check whether randomised containers are sold, to remove stored payment details and to put a day between deciding and buying.

The commission does not buy us an opinion about quality. The course does not say that Crossout is good, fun, better than alternatives or suitable for you, because we are not in a position to say so credibly and the law on misleading conduct is not interested in our enthusiasm. Every factual statement about the game in the course comes from what its vendor states — a free-to-play MMO vehicle-combat game set in post-apocalyptic realities, built on vehicles players construct and modify, available for Windows and Linux and not for macOS, with registration completed by confirming an email address and signing in. Where the vendor does not state something, the course says the vendor does not state it.

What does decide the content

Three things, in this order. First, the sequence in which decisions actually arrive for a beginner, which is what fixes the order of the five steps. Second, what can be stated honestly: a claim either comes from the vendor, or links to a primary source such as an Australian government body, or is phrased as general guidance, or it is cut. Third, what is durable — the course avoids figures that change monthly, because a page that is wrong in six months is worse than a page that never gave the number.

The reason Crossout is the example rather than some other game is the commercial relationship. That is the honest answer and we would rather give it than invent a selection process. What follows from it is that we hold ourselves to the vendor-only rule above, and that the course is written to be complete with every affiliate link removed. If you delete them mentally, the five steps and six checklists are unchanged and still work.

You do not have to use them

Nothing on this site is behind a link. You can read every page, print the checklists, work through all five steps and decide against installing anything at all, and you will have taken from the site everything it has. If you do decide to sign up for the game, you can equally type the vendor's address into your browser yourself; we will not be paid, and that is a legitimate choice we would rather name than leave you to discover.

Trademarks

All brand names on Blank Index, 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 Blank Index, and none has endorsed or sponsored it.

To put it beyond doubt: this site is not an official source for any game, not a reseller, not a partner, not an authorised channel and not a support service. It does not use any game's logo, wordmark, artwork or brand colours, and the name of the site has nothing to do with any product named in the course.

Where to read the rest

The About page sets out the editorial method in full: how the course was structured, what sources each step relies on, how often the whole text is reread, and the same statement about commercial relationships made in a different context. The Privacy Policy covers what happens to information, and the Cookie Policy confirms that this site sets nothing in your browser, before or after you follow an affiliate link.

If anything on this page is unclear, ask: info@blankindex.online.