Editorial policy

The rules this site holds itself to, published so that you can hold us to them too.

Last updated 21 September 2026.

1. Who writes here

Articles on slovador.online are written by Andrew Bailey, who is the responsible editor and director of publication for Bovama stav s.r.o.. Every article carries his name, the date it was published and the date it was last reviewed. There are no anonymous articles and no ghost-written “staff” bylines standing in for nobody.

2. How facts are established

• Primary sources first. Claims about what a product includes, costs or promises come from the vendor’s own published documentation, and we record the date we consulted it, because vendors repackage their tiers frequently.
• Independent sources for performance. Claims about how well a product detects threats come from the published results of independent laboratories — AV-TEST, AV-Comparatives, SE Labs — and are attributed to them, never to us.
• Sources are cited. Articles end with a list of the sources used, with links, so that you can check the original rather than take our word for it.
• Uncertainty is stated, not hidden. If we have not tested something, we say we have not tested it. If a figure varies by region or has changed recently, we say so instead of picking the flattering version.
• The vendor’s own information prevails. Where our description and the vendor’s current information diverge, the vendor’s information is the one to rely on.

3. How the site is funded

Entirely by affiliate commission on partner links, disclosed at the top of every page, beside every button and in full on the funding page. There is no other revenue: no display advertising network, no sponsored articles, no paid placement in a list, no payment for a positive conclusion. No vendor reviews or approves an article before publication.

4. What we refuse to publish

These are absolute, and they apply even where they cost us money:

• No invented testimonials. We do not publish “reader stories”, customer quotes or user experiences that we did not receive from a real, identifiable person who consented to publication. The previous version of this site framed advertising as a reader-submitted story; that framing has been removed.
• No invented ratings. No star scores, no “9.4/10”, no league tables assembled to put the paying product on top. If we cite a score, it is a laboratory’s published score, attributed and dated.
• No artificial urgency. No countdown timers, no “offer ends tonight”, no “only 3 licences left”, no fake stock levels. Prices and promotions belong to the vendor and are shown at the vendor’s checkout.
• No guaranteed-result claims. No security product can promise that you will not be attacked, and we will not imply it. Where a vendor makes a guarantee of its own, we attribute it to the vendor and point at its conditions.
• No fake scarcity, fake authority or fake endorsement. We do not imply that a vendor, laboratory, regulator or publication endorses us or the products we discuss.
• No fear-based misinformation. Threats are described as accurately as we can describe them, including when the honest answer is that a risk is smaller than the industry suggests.
• No before-and-after or health-style claims, no impersonation of a news organisation, and no layout designed to be mistaken for editorial content from another publisher.

5. Independence from advertisers

The commercial relationship is with an affiliate network, not with an editorial contact at the vendor. Vendors have no right of review, no approval over wording and no mechanism to have a correction suppressed. If a vendor asked us to remove an accurate statement, we would refuse and say publicly that we had been asked. An article that concludes a product is not suitable for a particular reader is published unchanged, even though it earns less.

6. Corrections

We correct errors rather than deleting the evidence of them.

• Write to info@slovador.online with the page, the statement you believe is wrong, and ideally a source. Include “correction” in the subject line.
• We aim to acknowledge within five working days, and to correct or explain within ten.
• Substantive corrections — anything that changes the meaning or could affect a purchase decision — are shown on the page itself, with the date, in a visible corrections note. The main article carries such a list here.
• Minor fixes (spelling, a broken link) are made silently, and the “last reviewed” date is updated.
• If a claim turns out to be unsupportable, it is removed rather than softened.
• Where a vendor changes its product and our page becomes out of date, we update the page and the review date; that is treated as a correction, not as housekeeping.

7. Accessibility and technical honesty

Pages are built as plain HTML with no tracking, no third-party requests and no browser storage. Illustrations are original SVG diagrams produced for this site, each with a title, a description, real alternative text and a caption; we do not reproduce vendor screenshots, logos or stock photography. Nothing on the site is designed to conceal what it is.