Our commitment

Finlitera aims to publish financial education that is clear, accurate, practical, and responsibly sourced. When we identify a meaningful error, we review it and make an appropriate correction. We also update content when reliable information changes or when additional context would materially improve a reader’s understanding.

What we correct

A correction may be appropriate when published content contains a meaningful problem involving:

• Facts, dates, figures, legal limits, product rules, or official guidance
• Calculations, formulas, examples, tables, or calculator explanations
• Quotations, source attribution, links, or descriptions of a source
• Language that could materially mislead a beginner about benefits, costs, risks, or limitations
• Missing context that changes the practical meaning of a conclusion

Corrections, updates, and minor edits

Not every edit has the same significance. Finlitera generally treats changes in three ways:

• Substantive corrections fix an error that could change a reader’s understanding, calculation, or decision. We may add a dated correction note when transparency would help readers understand what changed.
• Content updates refresh statistics, limits, rules, links, examples, or explanations when reliable information changes. An updated date may be shown even when the earlier version was not erroneous when published.
• Minor edits fix spelling, grammar, formatting, accessibility, or wording without changing the meaning. These changes may be made without a correction note.

How to report a concern

Please use the Contact Finlitera page to report a possible error, outdated claim, broken source, unclear calculation, or missing context. Include:

• The page title or URL
• The specific sentence, figure, table, or calculator result in question
• Why you believe it should be reviewed
• A primary or authoritative source, when available

How we review reports

1. We identify the exact claim or calculation being challenged.
2. We compare it with the cited material and current primary sources when available.
3. We assess whether the issue changes meaning, risk, or a practical next step.
4. We correct, clarify, update, or retain the content based on the available evidence.
5. When a correction is material, we consider whether a visible note is needed.

Reports involving possible financial harm, unsafe instructions, materially incorrect calculations, or current legal and regulatory information receive particular attention. Review time depends on the complexity of the issue and the availability of reliable evidence.

Retractions and removals

If a page is materially unreliable and cannot be corrected safely, Finlitera may substantially revise, unpublish, redirect, or remove it. When practical and useful to readers, we may explain the reason rather than silently leaving unreliable material available.

Evidence and reasonable disagreement

A difference in opinion is not automatically a factual error. Financial choices often depend on assumptions, time horizon, risk, costs, taxes, and personal circumstances. We may retain a conclusion when it is reasonably supported, while adding context or clearer limitations when that improves balance.

Related standards

Read the Editorial Policy for Finlitera’s broader writing standards and Sources & References for our source hierarchy and freshness standards.