Editorial policy

What we publish

Practical lifestyle writing: home, wellness, style, money, relationships and travel. We favour specific, testable ideas over trends, and we would rather publish one useful list than five breathless ones.

Accuracy

We check facts against primary sources where they exist and name those sources in the text. When a claim is opinion, experience or common practice rather than established fact, we say so. Health and money stories are general information, not personal advice; please talk to a professional about your own situation.

How we use AI

We use AI tools in three ways: to help research a topic, to produce first drafts that an editor then rewrites, and to create illustrations. Every published piece has been read, edited and approved by a person. Illustrations made with AI are credited as “Illustration: The Charmed Life”. We do not use AI to invent quotes, people, studies or events.

Images

Every image on the site is one of the following: an illustration we created, a public-domain image, a Creative Commons image used under its licence with attribution, a licensed stock image, or a photograph used with the owner’s written permission. We do not reproduce real-estate listing photographs or agency photographs without a licence. If you believe an image has been used without permission, see our DMCA page.

Headlines

A headline must be fulfilled by the article beneath it. We may test different headlines for the same story in advertising, but each must describe what the reader will actually find.

Advertising

Advertising is clearly separated from editorial. Sponsored recommendations and search links are labelled. Advertisers have no say in what we publish.

Corrections

When we get something wrong we fix it in the article and note the change at the bottom. Send corrections to hello@thecharmed.life.