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Editorial policy

This page sets out the rules we hold ourselves to. It is written to be checkable: every commitment below is one a reader can hold us to, and the last section explains how to do that.

Last updated 22 September 2026. Responsible editor: Ava Johnson.

1. Who writes here

All content on slovaris.online is commissioned and approved by Ava Johnson, responsible editor and director of publication for Cape Coral Inc., s.r.o.. Every article carries a named byline, a publication date and, where applicable, a date of last review. Nothing is published anonymously, and nothing is published under an invented name.

We do not accept guest articles, sponsored articles, advertorials or placed links. If we ever did, the article would be labelled as such at the top, in the same size type as the rest of the page.

2. How we establish facts

Our standard is simple: a claim is either something we can point to a primary source for, or something we mark as uncertain.

  • Primary sources first. For how a product behaves, the vendor’s own documentation. For test results, the testing laboratory’s own report — never a figure copied from a marketing page or from another review site. For law, the legislation or the responsible authority.
  • We name our sources. Articles carry a sources section with working links, so a reader can check the claim rather than trust us.
  • We hedge what we cannot verify, in plain words: “the vendor states”, “we have not tested this”, “check the current figure”. We would rather look uncertain than be wrong.
  • We avoid figures that expire. Prices, plan contents and test scores change constantly. We generally decline to reprint them, and send readers to the source instead, because a stale number is a misleading one.
  • Where our description differs from the advertiser’s own information, the advertiser’s information prevails. They are authoritative about their product; we are not.
  • We do not test products ourselves. We have no laboratory, so we publish no detection rates, no benchmark timings and no scores of our own. Where testing is relevant we cite AV-TEST, AV-Comparatives or SE Labs and link to their reports.

3. How this site is funded

slovaris.online earns money in exactly one way: affiliate commission paid by advertisers when a reader takes out a subscription after following a partner link from this site. There is no other revenue. There are no display advertising networks, no sponsored content and no paid placement.

The reader pays no more than they would by going to the advertiser directly. We are paid by the advertiser out of their own margin, and we are paid nothing at all if a reader simply reads the article. Details are on the advertising disclosure page.

4. What we refuse to publish

These are absolute, not aspirational:

  • No fabricated testimonials. No “reader stories”, no “reader-submitted experiences”, no invented quotations, no stock photograph presented as a customer. There are none on this site, and the framing was removed from this site’s earlier version — see corrections.
  • No invented ratings. No star ratings, no scores out of ten, no “editor’s choice” badges and no comparison tables ranking products we have not tested.
  • No artificial urgency. No countdown timers, no “offer ends today”, no fake stock levels, no “only 3 licences left”, no discount that was never withdrawn.
  • No guaranteed-result claims. No product stops all malware, protects you completely, or makes you anonymous. We will not write that any does, and we will not repeat a vendor’s claim that it does without marking it as their claim.
  • No scare tactics. No fake virus warnings, no “your device may be infected”, no imitation of a system alert, no mock scan animations.
  • No impersonation. We do not use any brand’s logo, trade dress or screenshots to suggest a relationship we do not have. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any product mentioned on this site.
  • No hidden commercial links. Every partner link is marked visibly where it appears and technically with rel="sponsored nofollow noopener".

5. Independence from advertisers

  • Advertisers have no right of review, approval or veto over anything we publish. No advertiser sees an article before publication.
  • Commission rates play no part in what we cover or how we describe it. Nobody involved in commercial arrangements approves editorial text.
  • We do not remove or soften criticism at an advertiser’s request. We correct factual errors when they are demonstrated, whoever points them out, and we record the correction.
  • Where we cannot be independent, we say so plainly rather than claiming a neutrality we do not have. An article funded by a partner link to one product is disclosed as such at the very top of the page and again immediately below the headline.
  • Editorial judgement rests with the responsible editor named above, who has no commercial reporting line.

6. Illustrations

Every diagram and illustration on this site was drawn specifically for slovaris.online as an original SVG file. We use no stock photography, no product screenshots and no vendor logos or trade dress. Each illustration carries alternative text and a caption stating that it is our own work.

7. Corrections

We correct errors, and we say that we have.

  1. Report an error to info@slovaris.online, with the page address and, if possible, a source.
  2. We acknowledge within five working days.
  3. A factual error is corrected as soon as it is confirmed. A significant correction is noted in the article itself and logged, with a date, on our corrections page.
  4. A minor correction — spelling, a broken link, a formatting fault — is made without a note.
  5. We do not silently delete an article to make a problem go away. If an article is withdrawn, the page stays in place and says that it was withdrawn and why.
  6. If we cannot agree, you may write to the responsible editor at the postal address on our contact page.

8. Complaints about advertising

If you believe a commercial claim on this site is misleading, insufficiently disclosed or otherwise improper, write to info@slovaris.online with the page address. We treat that as a correction request under the procedure above. Complaints about a product, a charge, a renewal or a refund must go to the seller, because we are not the seller and cannot act on them.