Editorial Policy
This page is the contract behind every article on DateNorth. It covers where our facts come from, how pages stay current, how AI is used in our process, and what happens with money.
Sourcing standards
- Load-bearing facts get sources. Prices, feature policies, ownership, statistics, and legal or safety claims trace to primary material: official company pages and announcements, Pew Research Center data, Federal Trade Commission and FBI IC3 publications, and reporting from established news organizations.
- No invented numbers. If a statistic cannot be traced to a source, it does not appear. Where the honest answer is "no reliable public data exists," we write exactly that. Some claims are deliberately qualitative for this reason.
- Dated freshness. Every guide carries a "Last verified" date reflecting the most recent time its claims were checked. Dating apps change pricing and features constantly; a page without a date is a page you cannot trust.
AI assistance disclosure
DateNorth uses AI tools in research and drafting: aggregating sources, structuring comparisons, and producing first drafts. Two rules keep that honest. First, every factual claim in a published page is verified against the sources above before it goes live, and anything unverifiable is cut or softened, whatever the draft said. Second, the judgments (which app to recommend, for whom, and why) are editorial decisions we stand behind, not model output published on autopilot. If you find an error the process missed, the corrections channel below exists for exactly that.
Affiliate and advertising policy
DateNorth currently has no affiliate relationships and runs no sponsored content. If that changes, three commitments hold: affiliate links will be disclosed on the pages that carry them, no ranking or verdict will ever be altered for commission, and no dating platform will be able to pay for placement, better coverage, or removal of criticism. Our recommendations are decided before any monetization question enters the room.
Corrections
Errors get fixed, not buried. Email [email protected] with the page and the problem. Substantive corrections update the page and its verified date; we do not silently rewrite history on factual mistakes.