Editorial policy

This policy explains how Data Lighthouse creates and maintains its analytics guides, comparisons, glossary entries, and statistics.

Source selection

Technical claims should link to primary sources whenever practical, including official product documentation, standards bodies, regulators, and original research. Comparison pages use the vendors' current documentation for features, hosting options, and implementation details.

Commercial transparency

Data Lighthouse publishes educational analytics content and also sells the Data Lighthouse dashboard template. Editorial pages are intended to explain trade-offs and should not present the template as the right choice for every team.

Automated publishing and quality checks

Some content workflows use automated drafting and publishing tools. Published pages are checked for structure, source links, unsupported claims, canonical topic overlap, and rendering safety. Automation does not make a page authoritative by itself; readers should follow the cited primary sources for decisions that depend on current product, privacy, or legal requirements.

Dates and corrections

Articles display publication and update dates when available. Time-sensitive comparisons and statistics are refreshed as source material changes. To flag an error or stale source, use the contact options and include the page URL and the claim that needs review.