Editorial policy

Rules the site is built to keep

• Every price and term is read from the provider's own pages, shown with its source and the date it was checked. See the methodology.
• Every link that can earn a commission is marked as sponsored, and any page containing one carries a disclosure above the first such link.
• Each recommendation says who it is for and who should skip it.
• A page says whether it is based on published terms or on hands-on use. Hands-on notes are dated.
• Changes to facts after publication are recorded on the corrections log.

What we do not publish

• Paid placements, sponsored rankings or reviews written by a provider.
• Invented experience, invented credentials or invented customer quotes.
• Numbers taken from other review sites.
• Promises about results.

Who decides what gets recommended

The editor (Nora Whitfield, a pen name) decides what is recommended, based on the published prices, terms and state limits described in the methodology. The order services are listed in is fixed by how established they are, not by commission.

No service can pay for a position, a review or a rating. Services do not see pages before they are published. A service can send a correction with a link to its own page, and it is handled like anyone else's.

How pages are written

1. Before anything is written, the editor approves a plan for the page: the reader's situation, the question they are asking, and what the page will tell them that the services' own pages do not.
2. Prices and terms are read from each service's own pages and stored once, with the source and the date. A page cannot contain a typed price: the build fails if it does, so every number on the page comes from that file.
3. Pages are drafted with the help of AI writing tools, working from that file and the approved plan.
4. A separate fact check, done apart from the drafting, re-opens each source page and compares it with what the page says. It also looks for any sentence that claims hands-on use or a credential the site does not have.
5. The editor decides whether the page is published. After that it is re-checked at least every 45 days.

Providers we link to without a commission

Yes. Some services we cover have no affiliate program at all; FreeWill, which is free to use, is one of them. They are listed in the same fixed order, with the same sourced facts and the same "who should skip it", and they can be the recommendation when they are the right answer. The only difference is that their links are plain links, not the commission-earning links described on the disclosure page.

Contact

Questions about this policy: hello@willsverdict.com.