How We Verify These Guides
Quick answer
Every guide on this site is built from primary sources: the company's own help pages, pricing pages, and terms, plus regulator documents where they exist. Every page carries the date we last verified it. Where we could not confirm something, the page says so instead of guessing. When a company changes a price or a flow, we update the page and log the change. This page explains the whole system.
Cancellation guides age badly. Buttons get renamed, prices rise, refund windows shrink, and most guides on the internet keep saying whatever was true the day they were written. We built a system to be wrong less often and honest about the rest. Here is how it works, so you can decide for yourself how much to trust a page here.
Where our facts come from
Each guide starts from a research file we call a fact pack: a per-service dossier built from the company's own published pages. Prices come from pricing pages, cancellation steps from official help articles, refund rules from the terms of service, and legal claims from regulator filings and statute text. News coverage fills gaps when the primary page will not load or simply does not state the fact, like a launch price or an announcement date, and the guide names the press sourcing when that happens.
Every claim in a pack carries a tag: verified on an official page, reported but not yet confirmed on an official page, or unverified. Those tags follow the fact onto the page. A retention offer that users report seeing is described as reported, never promised. A price we read on the company's own page is stated plainly, with the date.
What "Last verified" means
The date near the top of each guide is the day we last checked that page's facts against their sources. It is not a publish date and not decoration. Prices and flows on this site change on the companies' schedules, not ours, so the honest promise is a date, and a habit: guides are re-verified on rolling sweeps, fast-moving price pages are updated as changes land, and each page's update log shows when.
If the date looks stale to you, treat the page accordingly. That is exactly what the date is for.
What the "being re-verified" notes mean
Some companies block automated reading of their own help pages. When that leaves a detail we could not confirm, the page says so in place: a button label, a refund window, or a screen sequence will carry a plain note that it is reported rather than confirmed, or that the exact labels are being re-verified, and the surrounding advice stays at the confidence we actually have. We would rather show you the seam than paint over it.
The same rule covers numbers. A statistic appears here only if we can point at the study behind it, with the organization and year named in the text. Numbers we could not trace to a source do not appear, including a few widely quoted ones that turned out to have no verifiable origin.
What we never do
- No invented steps. If we have not confirmed a flow, we do not write it as though we walked it.
- No guaranteed outcomes. Refunds and retention offers are described as what usually happens and what is discretionary.
- No fear framing. Nobody here gets shamed for forgetting a subscription; billing is built to be forgettable.
- No pay-to-say. Companies do not pay for placement, and nobody edits a verdict.
Who makes this site
This site is made by ReNood, a subscription tracker for iPhone. That is a bias worth naming: we want you to try the app, and every guide says so once, in a marked spot, after the useful part. The guides themselves are written to stand alone. The app reads bank statements for a living, which is also why pages here can tell you what merchant strings actually look like on a statement.
Comparison pages carry one extra rule: every claim about another company comes from that company's own published pages, and where we could not verify, the page says so rather than filling the gap.
Found an error?
Tell us and we will fix it. Corrections are logged on the affected page's update log, plainly, with the date. The fastest route is renood.com/support; include the page and the line, and screenshots help.
The system above is also what the app does: read the primary record, date everything, and never guess. ReNood finds your subscriptions from a statement you upload, no bank login, and keeps the renewal dates where you can see them.
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How often are guides updated?
Time-sensitive pages, like the price tracker and deal pages, are updated as changes land. Cancel guides are re-verified on rolling sweeps, and any reader-reported error is checked and fixed as it arrives. The "Last verified" date on each page tells you exactly where it stands; we would rather you check the date than assume.
Why do some pages say a detail is being re-verified?
Because we could not confirm it from a primary source at the last check, usually because the company blocks automated reading of its own help pages. The note marks the exact spot, and the rest of the page stays at the confidence we actually have. The alternative is guessing, which is how most stale guides get things wrong.
Do companies pay to appear in these guides?
No. Nobody pays for placement, coverage, or a softer verdict, and there are no affiliate links in the guides. The site's one commercial interest is disclosed in a marked spot on every page: it is made by ReNood, and each guide mentions the app once, after the useful part.
Who writes these guides?
They are researched and written by the ReNood team and reviewed against the fact packs described above; the team stands behind every page, and the support route on this page reaches the people who wrote them. Where a page touches money or law, the sources are linked at the bottom so you can check our work, which is the arrangement we would want as readers.
This guide is educational, not financial or legal advice. Details change; check the linked sources for anything that matters to your situation.