Last updated: 22 September 2026.

1. Who writes here

Editorial responsibility for veldator.online rests with Mark Jackson, acting as director of publication and responsible editor on behalf of Canadian Cleaning Company s.r.o., Rýmařovská 431, Letňany, 199 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic. Every article carries a named byline and a publication date. We do not publish anonymously, we do not invent author personas, and we do not attribute articles to a fictitious “editorial team” or a “panel of experts” that does not exist.

We are not a security laboratory. We do not operate a malware testing facility, and we do not claim to. Where a question can only be answered by controlled testing — detection rates, performance impact, false-positive counts — we point you to the independent laboratories that do that work and publish their methodology, rather than pretending to have measured it ourselves.

2. How claims are established

• Primary sources first. A statement about a company action comes from that company's own announcement. A statement about a regulatory decision comes from the regulator's own publication, not from a news story about it.
• Product facts come from the vendor. What is in a plan, on which platform, is taken from the vendor's current documentation. Because those change, we state explicitly on every product page that the vendor's own information prevails over ours in case of divergence.
• We hedge what we cannot verify, visibly, in the text. “Historically”, “typically”, “according to” and “check the current page” are used deliberately, not as filler.
• We never invent a number. No statistic, percentage, user count, detection rate, gigabyte allowance or price appears on this site unless we can point at where it came from. If we cannot source it, we leave it out — even when a number would make the page more persuasive.
• Sources are listed and linked at the foot of substantive articles so you can check us.

3. How this site is funded

Entirely by affiliate commission. Links marked “partner link” lead to third-party vendors. If you buy after following one, the vendor pays Canadian Cleaning Company s.r.o. a commission. Your price is identical whether you use our link or type the vendor's address yourself; the commission is paid out of the vendor's margin, not added to your bill.

We take no payment for reviews, no payment for placement, no payment for a rating and no payment to remove criticism. We have no sponsored posts and no paid guest articles. We do not accept money to write about a product, only commission if a reader chooses to buy one.

Every page carrying a commercial link discloses this in three places: a bar at the very top of the page, a disclosure box immediately after the headline and before any promotional content, and a note beneath every individual call to action. Every commercial link is machine-readable as advertising through rel="sponsored nofollow".

4. What we refuse to publish

These are firm rules, not aspirations.

• No fabricated testimonials. We publish no “reader stories”, no customer quotations and no user reviews, because we have no means of verifying that such a person exists or said such a thing. An unverifiable quotation is an invented one.
• No invented ratings. No stars, no scores out of ten, no “editor's choice” badge, no league table where the ranking is really determined by commission rate. We do not publish numerical ratings at all; see how we review.
• No artificial urgency. No countdown timers, no “offer ends tonight”, no “only 3 licences left”, no fake stock levels, no “47 people are viewing this page”. If a vendor is running a genuine time-limited promotion, the vendor's own page will say so.
• No guaranteed outcomes. No product makes anyone “100% protected”, “completely anonymous” or “immune to ransomware”, and we will not write that it does.
• No scareware framing. We do not tell you your device is infected, at risk, or scanned. We cannot know that, and any page that claims to is lying to you.
• No imitation of the brands we write about. We do not use vendor logos, colours or screenshots in a way that could suggest this site is operated by or endorsed by them. All illustrations are our own drawings.
• No hidden advertising. Nothing commercial appears on this site without a visible label in plain English.

5. Advertiser independence

No vendor, affiliate network or advertising partner is shown an article before publication, has any right of review, or is told in advance what we intend to say. No vendor may require a change to editorial text as a condition of a commercial relationship; if that were ever demanded, we would end the relationship rather than comply, and we would say on the page that we had done so.

Criticism is not withheld because it is commercially inconvenient. The guide on this site's front page describes a regulatory settlement against the very product it links to, recommends a free built-in alternative for some readers, and tells others plainly that the paid tier is probably not worth it for them. That is the standard we intend to keep.

Commission rates play no part in what we recommend or in the order in which options are presented.

6. Corrections

We will get things wrong. When we do, we want to know, and we would rather be corrected by a reader than leave an error standing.

1. Write to info@veldator.online, setting out what is wrong and, if you can, where the correct information is published.
2. We acknowledge within five working days.
3. Clear factual errors are corrected promptly. Where the correction is material — a fact, a figure, a claim about what a product does — we note the change on the page rather than editing silently, and we update the “last updated” date.
4. Typographical and formatting fixes are made without a note.
5. If we disagree with a correction request, we tell you why rather than ignoring it.

Right of reply: if you are the subject of something we have published and consider it inaccurate or unfair, write to the same address. We will publish a proportionate reply or a correction.

7. Updating and withdrawal

Product articles are reviewed periodically because the underlying facts change. Where an article can no longer be kept accurate, we would rather withdraw it than leave stale claims online; withdrawn pages keep their address and say plainly that they have been withdrawn, so that nothing you have bookmarked simply disappears.

8. Privacy as editorial policy

We could make more money by installing analytics and an advertising pixel. We have chosen not to collect anything at all, which is why there is no consent banner on this site. That is an editorial decision as much as a legal one: we do not think a site telling you how to protect your privacy should be tracking you while it does so. See the cookie policy, which also explains how to check that we are telling the truth.