This Editorial Policy explains how Smart Shade Planner prepares, reviews, corrects, and presents its content.
Editorial purpose
Content should help readers make a specific smart-shade planning or product decision. Pages should clarify relevant criteria, tradeoffs, limitations, unknowns, and verification steps instead of adding material only to increase word count or target keyword variations.
Evidence and attribution
Important product specifications, compatibility statements, warranty and return terms, safety-related details, and other decision-sensitive claims should be traceable to an identifiable source and the correct product or configuration.
Facts, calculated values, editorial interpretations, and unknown information must not be presented as if they were the same thing. When sources conflict or lack sufficient detail, the page should narrow the claim, explain the limitation, or leave the field unknown.
Hands-on and expertise claims
Smart Shade Planner does not claim personal use, installation experience, long-term ownership, laboratory testing, interviews, professional certification, or expert review unless that work actually occurred and can be documented.
The site must not use language such as “we tested,” “our lab found,” or “after using this product” when the conclusion is based only on public product pages, manuals, merchant information, or other secondary research.
Comparisons, rankings, and recommendations
Comparisons should use fields that change the user’s decision and should preserve model, option, region, and source limitations. The site must not create a ranking, score, “best” label, or recommendation from incomplete or non-comparable data.
Unknown values are not treated as negative values, and missing information must not be replaced with assumptions simply to complete a comparison table.
Commercial independence
As of this policy’s latest update, Smart Shade Planner does not use affiliate links, display advertising, paid product placements, merchant offers, prices, or purchase buttons.
If commercial relationships are introduced later, they must be disclosed clearly and must not determine the evidence standard, comparison fields, conclusions, or treatment of unknown information. Payment or commission must not purchase a favorable conclusion.
AI-assisted preparation
AI-assisted tools may support extraction, organization, drafting, consistency checks, or original explanatory graphics. They must not invent sources, quotations, product experience, author credentials, compatibility, prices, availability, ratings, or commercial approval. Important claims must remain tied to source evidence.
Corrections and updates
Material errors should be corrected when reliable evidence is available. An update may revise a field, narrow a claim, add a source, expose a conflict, or mark previously stated information as unknown.
Correction requests can be sent to [email protected]. Please include the affected page, the statement in question, and the supporting source when possible.