Editorial Standards
Compliance content is only useful if it's trustworthy, and trust has to be earned through a visible process, not just claimed. This page describes the process we follow, and the corrections log shows where it has failed and what we did about it.
Who writes this
Articles are published by the Governome Editorial Team. We are a small, early-stage team and do not yet publish individually named bylines. We use AI tools in research and drafting. The checks below are what stand between a draft and publication, and we say so on a page when we could not complete one of them.
Sources, in order of weight
We rank sources. First the primary text: the statute, regulation, bill page or standard itself. Then the regulator's own guidance and enforcement records. Then law-firm and trade commentary, which we use to find primary sources and to understand how they are being read, and which we label as secondary on the page when a point rests on it. Vendor content is not used to establish what a law requires. Citations point to the specific document, not a homepage.
What we verify before publishing
For every page about a law or standard, we confirm against the primary source: its current status (proposed, enacted, in force, repealed, replaced), the date each obligation applies, who it covers and who it exempts, what the enforcement mechanism and penalties are, and any amendment or delay since the source we started from. Dates and bill numbers are the claims most likely to be wrong, so they are the ones we check first.
Keeping pages current
Every article shows a last-reviewed date. Regulation pages are living documents: when a tracked law changes, we update the existing page in place and, if the page was wrong, record it in the corrections log. We re-verify regulation pages against their primary sources at least once a quarter, and sooner when we learn the underlying law has moved.
Independence
Governome does not accept payment for favorable coverage of a regulation, framework, or vendor, and does not let commercial relationships shape how we classify a law's requirements. We are not a law firm and nothing here is legal advice; see our disclaimer.
Corrections
If you find an inaccuracy, tell us at contact@governome.com. We correct confirmed errors promptly and log substantive ones, with the source we checked them against, on the corrections page.