Editorial Policy

What this policy covers

ToolQivo publishes two kinds of thing: the tools themselves, and the written material around them — what a tool is for, how to use it, the notes and FAQs on each page. Both are produced by the same small team, to the standards set out below. If anything on the site falls short of them, that is a bug, and we would like to hear about it.

How a tool is chosen

A tool earns a place here when it meets three tests: people genuinely need it more than once, it can be done properly and entirely inside the browser, and we can make it better than a form that simply wraps somebody else's API. Most requests come from visitors, and the ones that describe a real job — rather than a keyword — get built first.

We would rather publish a smaller catalogue that works than a large one that exists to catch search traffic. Pages that only restate a definition, or that duplicate another tool with a different name, are not published.

How a tool is built and checked

Every tool is written from scratch against browser APIs, then tested before release:

• Formulas come from a named source. Anything with a defined standard behind it — a unit conversion, a hash, a date rule, a health index — is implemented from the published definition, not copied from another site. Where authorities disagree, the tool says which convention it follows.
• Output is verified against known values. Calculators are checked against worked examples with known answers, including edge cases: zero, negative numbers, very large inputs, empty input, and the boundaries between bands.
• Encoders are round-tripped. Anything that converts is tested in both directions, with Unicode text as well as plain ASCII, so accented characters and emoji survive the trip.
• Browsers are tested, not assumed. Tools are checked in current Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge, on a phone screen as well as a desktop one.
• Failure is visible. When an input is invalid or a file is too large, the tool says so instead of returning a wrong answer quietly. A silent wrong result is the worst outcome we can ship.

How the writing is produced

The text on a tool page is written by a person who has used the tool, and its job is to help you finish the task — what the tool does, when to reach for it, what the options mean, what the limits are. We do not pad pages to hit a word count, and we do not publish machine-generated filler.

Where drafting software is used to help with a first pass or to tidy a sentence, the result is reviewed, edited and fact-checked by a person before it is published, and the facts in it are verified against the same sources the tool was built from. Nobody's name goes on something they have not checked.

Independence from advertising

Advertising pays for the site, and it has no influence on what we publish. Advertisers do not see content before it goes live, cannot request changes, and cannot buy a mention inside a tool page. No tool exists because an advertiser asked for it. If we ever publish sponsored or affiliate content it will be labelled as such on the page itself, in plain words, before you read it. This is set out in full in the advertising disclosure.

Accuracy, review and updates

Content that can go stale — currency rates, tax bands, standards, browser behaviour, anything with a number in it that the world can change — is reviewed periodically and after any report that it has drifted. Every legal and policy page carries the date it was last updated at the top.

We do not backdate updates to look fresh, and we do not change a published date to game search results.

Corrections

When we get something wrong, we fix it and say so.

• A factual error in a tool's output is treated as the highest-priority work there is, ahead of new features.
• A substantive correction to a page is noted on that page, rather than being made silently.
• Typos and formatting fixes are made without a note, because a note would be noise.
• Pages are corrected rather than deleted, so that a link someone shared keeps working.

To report an error, send the tool's URL, the exact inputs you used and the result you expected to toolqivo@gmail.com, or use the contact form. Reports that include a reproducible input get fixed fastest.

What we will not publish

• Tools built to produce spam, deceive people, or bypass a site's security or terms.
• Adult, hateful, violent or harassing material, and anything that promotes it.
• Health or financial claims dressed up as advice — the calculators are informational, and the disclaimer says so plainly.
• Fabricated statistics, invented testimonials or engagement figures we cannot substantiate.
• Content copied from another site, whether by hand or by machine.

Who is responsible

ToolQivo is responsible for everything published here, including the mistakes. There is no anonymous byline to hide behind: one inbox, toolqivo@gmail.com, reaches the people who build the site.