How comparisons here are built

The commercial position, stated first

Celinopex s.r.o. has an affiliate relationship with one security product, TotalAV. Links to that product on this site are paid links: a commission is paid to the publisher when a reader subscribes after following one. That arrangement is the reason TotalAV is the product written about in depth, and pretending otherwise would be the single most misleading thing this site could do.

Putting that first changes how the rest of the site has to be read, which is the point. A library with one commercial relationship is not a survey of a market, and nothing here claims to rank the field or to have picked a winner from it. What it can honestly be is a careful account of a category — the components, the platform limits, the billing mechanics, the consumer rights — alongside a description of one product within it that stays inside what the vendor actually states.

The three rules that govern every page

1. A product claim appears only if the vendor states it. Anything specific about TotalAV — platforms, what is included, how something is sold — is written only where the vendor's own material says it. Where the vendor does not state something, the page says it is not stated rather than filling the gap with a plausible guess. This is why the covered products page contains an explicit list of unknowns.
2. A general claim links to the body that says it. Statements about Australian consumer rights, privacy law, reporting channels or regulators link to the regulator or agency concerned. Where no source can be named, the sentence is written as general guidance and labelled as such, or it is removed.
3. Numbers are not invented, borrowed or implied. No detection rates, no percentages, no "independently tested" figures, no award badges, no star ratings. This publisher does not run laboratory tests, so no test result appears here in any form.

What is deliberately absent

The absences are as much a part of the method as the content, and each one is a decision rather than an oversight.

Scores and ratings

A number out of ten produced by nobody in particular is a persuasion device, not a measurement. Where a page needs to distinguish two things, it describes the difference and lets you weigh it.

Testimonials and user quotes

There are none anywhere on this site. A quote that cannot be traced to a named, verifiable person is fabricated, and a fabricated quote in trade is exactly the conduct the Australian Consumer Law prohibits.

Urgency

No countdowns, no expiring offers, no stock counters, no warnings that a decision must be made today. If a comparison only works when the reader is rushed, it was not a comparison.

Threat messaging aimed at you

No page here suggests your device is infected, exposed or at risk, because this site has no way of knowing anything about your device and says nothing about it. Risk is discussed the way a public advisory discusses it — generally, with a source.

Data collection

No forms, no newsletter, no quiz, no account, no chat widget, no analytics, no cookies. Contact happens by email if you choose to send one. A site with nothing to collect cannot misuse what it has collected, and the privacy policy describes exactly that rather than a generic set of practices.

How a comparison page is actually put together

Each comparison on this site follows the same four steps, in order, and the order matters because it prevents the criteria from being chosen to suit a conclusion.

1. Name the question a reader would type. Not "best antivirus 2026" but the underlying question behind it — whether an iPhone needs one, why the second year costs more than the first, what a VPN does and does not hide.
2. Fix the criteria before looking at any product. The criteria come from the category: what the tool has to do, where it has to run, what it costs over time, what happens when you want to leave. They are written down on the page so you can reject them.
3. Fill only the cells that can be filled. A comparison table here will say "not stated" where a vendor has not stated something. An empty cell is information about the vendor's disclosure; a fabricated cell is a lie that happens to look tidy.
4. Separate the description from the recommendation. Pages describe. Where a page suggests an approach — check the renewal price before the first term ends, for instance — it is framed as something to check for yourself, with the reason given.

Handling of vendor material

Marketing pages are treated as claims made by an interested party, not as facts. A statement from a vendor is reported as a statement from that vendor and attributed in the sentence, so the reader knows who is speaking. Screenshots, logos and brand colours are not reproduced here, and product names appear as plain text, because this site is writing about those products rather than representing them.

Corrections and revision

Pages carry a review date in the footer. Product details change, vendors revise their terms, and a page written accurately in one month can drift out of date in the next — which is why every page about a product tells you to confirm the current position on the vendor's own site before paying for anything.

If something here is wrong, say so. Corrections go to info@synthworks.online, and a factual error that can be substantiated is corrected on the page rather than argued about. Where a correction changes the substance of what a page said, the change is described in the text rather than made silently.

The test this library sets itself

A simple question decides whether a page belongs here: would it still be worth reading if every paid link were deleted? A page explaining what a VPN cannot hide passes that test. A page whose only purpose is to carry a button does not, and does not get published. The paid links exist because the site has to be funded; the pages exist because the category is genuinely confusing and most of what is written about it is written to sell something.