Editorial policy
This page describes how clarienne.online is written and paid for. It is deliberately specific, because a site that carries advertising and writes about the products it advertises owes its readers an explicit account of where the line sits.
Who writes this site
Content is written and edited by Richard Wright, who is the editor responsible for publication on behalf of AROWANIE INSPIRE s.r.o.. Every article carries a named byline and a publication date. We do not publish anonymous articles, we do not use invented author personas, and we do not attribute articles to fictional experts.
How facts are established and sourced
- Primary documentation first. Where a claim is about what a piece of software does, the source is the maker’s own current documentation, not a press release and not another article.
- Independent testing for performance claims. Where a claim is about detection or performance, we point to the published results of independent laboratories — AV-TEST, AV-Comparatives, SE Labs — and we name them so you can check the date and the methodology.
- Public institutional sources for threat context. ENISA, Europol, national cyber security centres, and equivalent bodies.
- Every source is linked. Each article ends with a source list.
- We run no tests of our own. We have no laboratory, we do not hold review licences, and we do not accept hardware or software for review. No number on this site is our own measurement, and we never reprint someone else’s measurement as if it were.
- Uncertainty is stated, not smoothed over. If we cannot verify something, we either hedge it explicitly or leave it out. We would rather publish a shorter article than a confident wrong one.
How the site is funded
Entirely by affiliate commission. When a reader follows a link marked “partner link” and later buys a subscription from that advertiser, the advertiser pays AROWANIE INSPIRE s.r.o. a commission. The reader pays the same price they would have paid arriving any other way. We receive nothing when you merely read a page.
We have no subscriptions, no reader payments, no sponsored-post business and no paid newsletter. Traffic to this site is partly bought through advertising platforms, which is why the commercial disclosure appears at the very top of every page rather than in the small print.
What we refuse to do
This list is the operative part of this policy. Each item is something that is common in affiliate publishing and that we will not do:
- No invented testimonials. We publish no reader stories, no customer quotes and no “reader-submitted” experiences. A previous version of this site was framed that way; that framing has been removed because it was untrue.
- No invented ratings. We publish no star ratings, no scores out of ten and no “best of” rankings, because we run no tests that could justify one.
- No artificial urgency. No countdown timers, no “offer ends tonight”, no fake stock counters, no claims that a price is about to rise.
- No fake scan or infection warnings. We will never display anything that suggests we can see the state of your device. We cannot, and any site that says it can is lying to you.
- No guaranteed-result claims. No security product stops everything, and we will not say or imply that one does.
- No fabricated statistics or specifications. If we cannot cite a figure to a source, the figure does not appear.
- No news framing. Our pages are commercial guides. They are not presented as news reports, investigations or consumer-association tests.
- No brand impersonation. We do not use an advertiser’s logo, artwork or visual identity in a way that suggests the page is theirs, and we do not imply endorsement.
- No hidden commercial links. Every commercial link is marked in the visible text, carries
rel="sponsored nofollow noopener", and sits below a disclosure. - No tracking of readers. No cookies, no analytics, no pixels, no fingerprinting, no browser storage. See the cookie policy.
Advertiser independence
Advertisers do not see articles before publication, do not approve copy, and have no right of review. They cannot commission a topic, cannot require that a competitor go unmentioned, and cannot have a criticism removed. Commission rates play no part in what we write about a product, and we will state a product’s limitations on the same page that advertises it — the antivirus guide on this site does exactly that.
We also make the reverse commitment: we will not manufacture criticism of a competitor to flatter an advertiser. Where we genuinely cannot compare products, we say so instead of implying a comparison.
Where an advertiser’s own documentation contradicts something we have written, the advertiser’s current information prevails and we correct our page.
Illustrations
Every diagram on this site is an original SVG drawn by us for the page it appears on. We use no stock photography, no vendor artwork and no product screenshots. Diagrams that depict an email or a web page are invented examples and name no real company or domain. Each has a text alternative and a caption stating what it shows and what it does not.
Corrections procedure
We correct errors of fact promptly and in public. The procedure is:
- Write to info@clarienne.online with the page address and what you believe is wrong. Include a source if you have one.
- We acknowledge within five working days.
- We check the claim against primary sources.
- If we were wrong, we fix the text and add a dated entry to the corrections note at the foot of that article, saying what it previously said. We do not delete errors silently.
- If we were right, we reply explaining why, with the source.
- Minor fixes — typography, a dead link — are made without a note. Anything that changes the meaning gets a note.
Vendors are welcome to use the same route. A correction request from an advertiser is handled on exactly the same basis as one from a reader: it must be supported by a source, and being an advertiser does not make it more persuasive.
Review cycle
Commercial pages are reviewed at least twice a year and after any material change to a product we describe. Each article shows both its publication date and the date it was last reviewed.