Editorial policy

Independence

No manufacturer, retailer or brand has ever paid to appear on this site, to rank on it, or to be described in a particular way. We do not sell placement. We do not accept free product. No advertiser sees a page before it is published.

Both of those practices are common in this category, and some publishers disclose them honestly — one discloses paid ranking positions outright, another discloses that it accepts free product. We do neither. If that ever changes, it will be disclosed in the same sentence as the recommendation, not on a page nobody reads.

We earn affiliate commissions, and that is a real interest we have. It is disclosed on every page that carries a link, and the ranking is not for sale to it either: where a cheaper option is the better buy, it ranks higher, regardless of what it pays. Full disclosure here.

Sourcing

• Every specification is cited and dated. Each product card links the manufacturer listing it came from with the date we read it.
• Unknown is a publishable answer.Where a manufacturer does not publish a spec, we print “Not published.” We never infer, estimate or round a number into existence.
• Code and clinical claims go to primary or authoritative sources.Electrical claims cite the NEC section. Health claims cite published clinical guidance or peer-reviewed research, never a competitor’s summary of it.
• Where evidence is mixed, we say so— including when that undercuts a product we link to.
• Where we are not qualified, we stop. We do not publish wire gauge, a definitive GFCI ruling, or medical advice.

Prices

Every price on this site comes from the Amazon API and carries the date it was checked. Prices are refreshed daily. If our data goes more than 48hours stale, every number disappears automatically and the page falls back to “Check price on Amazon.”

That is deliberate engineering, not a promise: a price cannot be typed into our content at all. There is no field for one. The only way a number reaches a page is through the live layer, which means a stale price is not something we have to remember to avoid.

Corrections

We will get things wrong — a misread spec, an arithmetic error, a product that changed after we wrote about it.

When we do: we fix it and we say that we fixed it, with the date, on the page. We do not quietly edit and move on. A site whose entire argument is “check our working” does not get to hide the times the working was wrong.

Report an error to info@iceandcedar.com or via the contact form. Include the page and what is wrong; if you are right, we would rather know.

Updates

Every page carries a “last verified” date. That date means a human re-read the sources, not that a script touched the file. Prices update daily and automatically; specs and rankings are re-verified when a product changes, when new units enter a category, or on review.

What we will never publish

• Fabricated testimonials or reviews.We have no customers — we are a publisher. There is no reviews section on this site, and that is why.
• A claim that we tested something we did not test.
• A price we did not get from the API.
• A spec we inferred rather than read.
• Fake urgency— no countdowns, no invented scarcity, no “only 2 left” theatre.
• Health claims the evidence does not carry, however well they would sell a tub.

AI and this site

Worth stating plainly, since the question is now reasonable to ask. This site’s content is written and edited by people at Type 5 Marketing LLC, and its factual layer is generated from a typed data model wired to live sources: specs are read from manufacturer listings by hand, prices come from the Amazon API, and the electrical and cost figures are computed by published formulas you can check. Nothing on this site is generated from a model’s recollection of what a product spec probably is — which is precisely the failure mode the “Not published” convention exists to prevent.