Corrections Policy
Every article lists its sources and carries the date it was last verified. When a published fact is wrong, the correction is logged in the article rather than being quietly replaced. That is the same standard already stated on the articles hub, and it is why this page exists: so a reader can see what we do when the reporting, the merchant listing, or the coupon copy does not match the venue.
What a correction looks like
A correction is a visible note in the article that names the error and the accurate fact. It is not a silent edit that leaves the URL looking unchanged. Typical cases include a wrong price, an outdated offer window, a closed or moved store, a misstated address, or a deal that could not be redeemed as published. The last-verified date on the article is updated when the fact has been checked again — including after a follow-up visit or after the coupon has moved through another review.
The people who own that check are the same people named on the editorial team page. Mark Joseph Mantele, Marketing Supervisor and supervising editor, checks every article before it publishes, and he is the editor who sees a correction through after publication. Atty. Jansen Bernardo, JD, MBA, Legal Counsel, reviews articles before publication and is the reviewedBy Person on article structured data; legal issues in a published piece go through that same review, not around it.
How we decide something needs a correction
The original report is a venue visit: the writer orders, pays the bill, and does not take a free meal or give advance notice. If a later reader, merchant, or editor shows that the published account no longer matches that venue or the live coupon, we treat it as a correction, not as a new marketing pass. Updating a last-verified date after a clean re-check is not a correction; changing a fact that readers already saw is. The merchant verification page describes the approval path a coupon follows (draft, pending review, under review, approved or rejected or sent back for revision) and the visit that sits beside it. The editorial guidelines describe how advertising and PR are kept out of that visit.
We do not unpublish an article to hide an error when a correction in place will tell the reader what changed. If the entire offer is gone — the coupon expired or was rejected on a later review — the article should say so and the last-verified date should reflect that check.
How to report an error
Use the contact page. Send the article URL, the sentence or coupon detail that is wrong, and what you observed (including a date, a store name, and a receipt or confirmation if you have one). The editorial team will compare that report with the original visit notes and the live listing. If the published fact is wrong, the correction is logged in the article and the last-verified date is updated. If the published fact still matches the visit and the approved coupon, we will say so rather than rewrite the piece to match a later, unverified claim.