This page describes how Swipe Times produces its coverage, what its scores mean, who is accountable for them, and how commercial support is disclosed. It is meant to be read, not skimmed.
How reviews are done
Regional density is our specialism and therefore our biggest factual risk, so we cite only what an operator or a named report publishes, attribute it and date it — and we say plainly, and often, that most operators do not publish regional user numbers at all. Safety and verification features are reported as what the operator states, with a note where a claim cannot be checked from outside.
What our scores mean
Scores run 0–10 and are judgments, not averages of sub-scores. A 7 is a good product with real trade-offs. An 8 is an easy recommendation for the right buyer. A 9 is rare and means we struggled to find a meaningful fault; treat 8.7 as the practical ceiling. Every review lists genuine cons — if we cannot find any, we have not looked hard enough — and no score can be bought.
Disclosure
Swipe Times is a commercially supported publication. Posts containing affiliate links, and posts that are sponsored, carry a disclosure with the post. Sponsored and affiliate links are marked rel="sponsored" in the page's code. Sponsors never see, edit or approve editorial copy before publication, and no score can be bought — see the advertising page for what is and is not for sale.
Bylines
Swipe Times publishes under house bylines maintained by the editorial team. Leo Whitfield, the editor's byline on our reviews, is a disclosed house pen name — the accountable editorial identity for everything published under it, in the tradition of publications that write under a house name rather than inventing biographies. News runs under “Staff, Swipe Times.” There is no invented journalist behind any byline on this site.
Corrections
If we have published an error — a figure, a date, a term, a price — we want to know. Reach the editorial desk via the contact page and say “correction” in the first line; that queue moves fastest. We correct promptly and note material corrections in the post.