Editorial policy
This page explains how superprotection.online is written and paid for. It is published because a site funded by commission owes its readers an account of the conflict of interest that funding creates, and of what is done about it.
Who writes this site
Karen Taylor is the responsible editor and director of publication. Every article carries a named byline and a publication date, and every article is reviewed before publication by the responsible editor. The publisher is Burksled s.r.o., Na dolinách 1272/41, Nusle, 140 00 Praha 4, Czech Republic (IČO 19127812). We do not publish anonymous articles, and we do not publish text supplied by an advertiser as if it were our own.
How we establish facts
We work to a simple hierarchy. Primary sources first: the vendor’s own documentation for what a product contains and costs; the published methodology and results of independent testing institutes for detection performance; official guidance from public bodies for security practice. Anything we cannot source, we hedge or leave out. Where a claim depends on something that changes — a price, a plan boundary, a test result — we say so, we date the page, and we tell you to check the vendor’s current information, which prevails over ours.
The bodies we rely on most are named and linked at the foot of each article. Currently these include ENISA, the AV-TEST Institute, AV-Comparatives, Microsoft Support documentation, CISA and NIST. We link to organisations rather than to individual report URLs, because report URLs move and organisation pages do not.
How this site is funded
Entirely by affiliate commission. When a reader follows a link marked partner link and subscribes to the product at the other end, the vendor pays Burksled s.r.o. a commission. The reader pays the vendor’s normal price; nothing is added for using our link. We receive no payment for publishing a positive opinion, we do not sell coverage, and no advertiser pays to appear on this site outside that commission arrangement.
We also state the obvious consequence: we earn nothing if you decide not to buy. That is a real incentive and the reason for the rest of this page. Our response is to publish the things that cut against the sale — that Windows already includes Microsoft Defender at no cost, that several of the most effective security measures are free, that introductory prices are not renewal prices — and to make every commercial link visibly and unmistakably commercial.
How commercial links are marked
Every affiliate link on this site carries the attribute
rel="sponsored nofollow noopener", is labelled partner link in visible text
directly beneath the button, and is followed by a note stating that we earn a commission and that it
costs you nothing extra. A disclosure bar appears at the top of every page, and a full disclosure
box appears immediately after the headline of any page carrying commercial links, before any
promotional content.
What we refuse to do
- Invented testimonials. We do not publish reader stories, customer quotes or case studies that did not happen. Earlier versions of this site used a “reader story” framing; it has been removed, and it is recorded in the corrections list on the article it appeared on.
- Invented ratings. We publish no scores out of ten, no star ratings and no “editor’s choice” badges, because we run no tests that would justify one. Where detection performance matters we send you to the institutes that do measure it.
- Fabricated statistics and specifications. If we cannot source a number, we do not print it. We would rather write “we have not measured this” than fill a gap with a plausible figure.
- Artificial urgency. No countdown timers, no “offer ends tonight”, no invented stock scarcity, no fake discount that was never a discount.
- Guaranteed results. No security product makes anyone safe, and we will not write that one does. We describe mechanisms and limits.
- Fake news framing. We do not present advertising as a news report, and we do not imitate the branding of any publication, vendor or public body.
- Scare tactics. We do not tell readers their device is infected, at risk or unprotected in order to sell them something.
Independence from advertisers
Advertisers and affiliate networks see our pages when everyone else does. They do not review drafts, they have no right of approval, and they cannot require the removal of criticism. If a vendor ends a commercial relationship because of something we published, the article stays as published. If we ever agree to any restriction on what we may write about a product, we will state that restriction on the page rather than quietly comply with it.
Corrections procedure
We correct errors of fact, and we do it in the open.
- Write to info@superprotection.online with the page URL, the passage concerned and, if you have one, a source. Anyone may do this — reader, vendor or competitor.
- We aim to acknowledge within five working days and to resolve within 30 days.
- If the point is upheld, we correct the text and record the correction on the page itself, stating what was wrong and what it now says. We do not delete an error silently and we do not backdate a page to hide one.
- If we conclude the text was right, we tell you so and explain why.
- Where a correction is significant, the “last reviewed” date is updated.
The article on this site currently carries a published list of nine claims that were removed or corrected when it was rewritten. That list is the procedure working, and it stays.
Reader data
We collect nothing. There are no cookies, no analytics, no advertising pixels and no forms on this site, which is also why there is no consent banner to click. See the cookie policy for how to verify that in your own browser, and the privacy policy for what the web server unavoidably logs.
Illustrations
All diagrams are original SVG drawings produced for this site. We use no stock photography and no product screenshots, both because they would raise copyright and trademark questions on a commercially funded page and because a diagram we drew ourselves can be made to explain the actual mechanism.