Editorial policy

These are the rules every Akacen guide is written to. They apply to guides, PDF downloads, product pages and anything we publish on social.

• •No brand can buy a ranking, a review, a placement or the removal of criticism.
• •No invented statistics, traffic figures, earnings claims or testimonials.
• •No fake urgency, countdown pressure or invented scarcity.
• •Partner links are disclosed above the first link in the body, not hidden at the bottom.
• •Every partner link opens in a new tab and is marked as sponsored so search engines can see it.
• •Financial, credit, betting and health products carry eligibility, age and regional warnings.
• •We publish who wrote a guide, when it was published and when it was last reviewed.
• •Pricing carries the date it was checked; where we cannot verify a price we say so.
• •We link to sources where a fact is not ours, and we do not copy other publishers.
• •Corrections are made in the open and the guide is re-dated.
• •We recommend fewer things on purpose — a shorter list is a more honest one.
• •Guides are written for readers first; commercial pages never masquerade as neutral advice.

The practical method behind these rules is on how we review and recommend. Think we have broken one of them? Tell us and we will fix it. Every fix we make is listed in the corrections log.