Editorial Disclosure
This page states how Secure Mail Guide makes money, how its articles are produced, and what does and does not affect what it publishes. It is deliberately short, because everything on it has to be true.
How this site is funded
This site is not monetised. It carries no affiliate links and no referral links, and every outbound link on it is an ordinary citation. Nothing here earns a commission if you sign up for a provider named in an article, which means every provider is covered on exactly the same basis regardless of whether it runs a referral program at all.
There is no sponsored content, no paid placement, no display advertising, and no newsletter sponsorship. No vendor pays to appear here, and no vendor has been given sight of an article before publication.
Accuracy comes before revenue. There is currently no revenue to come second to it, and if that ever changes the relationship will be named on the page it affects before it is named anywhere else. Rankings and comparisons on this site are built from published audits, provider documentation and technical specifications, not from hands-on testing.
How articles are produced
Articles are researched from primary sources: vendor and project documentation, published standards and specifications, release notes, advisories, and measurements published by the people who took them. Drafts are produced with AI assistance and then edited against those sources before publication.
Articles are published under the Secure Mail Guide Editorial byline. That is an editorial desk, not a named individual, and this site does not attribute its work to invented people with invented credentials. No article here claims hands-on lab testing, benchmarking, or first-hand measurement, and none should be read as a report of something this site physically tested. Where a number comes from a datasheet or someone else's measurement, the article says whose.
What influences coverage
- What readers of this topic are actually trying to find out
- Material changes to the software, hardware, or standards being covered
- Whether a primary source exists that is good enough to write from
What does not influence coverage
- Whether a vendor runs an affiliate or referral program
- What a program pays, where an affiliate link exists at all
- Whether a vendor has contacted this site
- Whether a topic is convenient for search traffic
Review samples and vendor relationships
This site does not accept review units, hardware loans, free licences, or gifts, and no article here is written from a vendor-supplied sample. It is not owned by, funded by, or operated by any of the vendors, projects, or platforms it covers.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, email hello@securemailguide.com with the page and the specific claim. Substantive corrections are made on the affected page rather than quietly removed. This site does not publish a separate correction log, and this page will not pretend otherwise.
Contact
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