Corrections Policy
Why a freelancing site needs one
A news site mostly corrects things that were wrong on the day. INTERNATIONALFREELANCERSDAY has that problem plus a slower, sneakier one: things that were right on the day and quietly stopped being right. A platform revises its service fee. A membership tier is discontinued. A tax threshold moves with the new fiscal year. A tool triples its price. The article does not change, the world does, and a reader acting on the old number can lose real money. So this policy covers both kinds of wrong: errors, which we made, and staleness, which time made. We treat both as ours to fix, because the reader’s loss is the same either way.
How to report a problem
Email support@internationalfreelancersday.com with the subject line Correction. Include the article URL, the claim you believe is wrong or outdated, and, if you have it, a link to the current primary source, such as the platform’s live pricing page or the official tax guidance. That last link can cut a day off the fix, because verification against the primary source is the step that takes time. Corrections outrank everything else in the inbox. We aim to acknowledge within two working days, and clear errors in high-stakes material, meaning fees, rates, and tax figures, are usually fixed faster than that.
What happens with a factual error
An editor verifies the claim against primary sources, never against the memory of whoever wrote the piece. If we were wrong, the fix depends on how much the error matters:
Minor errors
Typos, misspellings, broken links, formatting slips: fixed silently. Adding a correction note to a fixed comma would bury real corrections in noise.
Substantive errors
A wrong fee percentage, a misstated platform policy, a rate figure attributed to the wrong survey or the wrong country, an incorrect tax threshold: the text is corrected and a dated correction note is added to the article saying what was wrong and what is now stated. We do not paper over the change and pretend the article always said the right thing.
Fundamental errors
If the central claim of an article collapses, a correction note is not enough. The piece is rewritten or withdrawn, and if withdrawn, the URL carries an explanation rather than silently vanishing. This is rare, and it should be.
What happens with stale information
Staleness gets its own machinery, because it is our niche’s biggest failure mode:
- Verification dates. Platform guides and fee comparisons state when the figures were last checked against the platform’s own published schedule. An undated fee table is a promise nobody can audit, so we date ours.
- Update notes. When a platform changes something material after publication, we update the article and add a dated note describing the change, for example that a sliding fee scale was replaced by a flat rate. Readers who acted under the old structure deserve to see that the structure changed, not just a new number where the old one used to be.
- Priority refresh. News of a fee or policy change puts every affected article at the top of the update queue. Reader emails are honestly our best early-warning system here, and we say so with gratitude.
- Tax-year labelling. Tax figures are labelled with the jurisdiction and year they belong to, and updated on a schedule when new fiscal years begin.
What we do not do
- We do not unpublish accurate reporting because a platform or vendor dislikes it. Removal requests are honoured for legal reasons and for genuine errors, not for reputation management.
- We do not silently rewrite history on substantive points. The correction note stays even after the fix.
- We do not let advertisers or affiliate partners trigger, shape or veto corrections. A correction that costs us a commission still runs. Our editorial standards say more about that wall.
Where corrections live
Corrections appear on the corrected article itself, at the point where a reader of that article will see them. We do not maintain a separate corrections ledger that nobody visits; the fix belongs where the error was. If you reported the error, we will tell you by email what we changed, and if we concluded we were right after all, we will show you the source that convinced us.
