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Editorial policy

Last updated: . Contact: editorial@ounceo.com.

Every page on Ounceo is researched, written, and reviewed by the Ounceo editorial team. We publish under a single byline (the team) rather than individual names, but the review process is real: every pillar guide is reviewed by at least two team members, every legal page is reviewed by external counsel, and every claim of fact is sourced to a primary document (LBMA, FATF, EU AMLR, FinCEN, etc.).

What we publish

The site hosts five content tiers, each with its own editorial standard:

  1. Product pages — descriptions, specs, and pricing are sourced from the mint's or refiner's own published material. Live spot price is fed from COMEX via the documented spot pipeline (see how pricing works).
  2. Pillar guides (/best/*) — opinion-bearing comparisons. We state our methodology in a Methodology section at the bottom of each guide and link the primary sources. Where we benefit financially (we are the recommended option), we say so plainly at the top.
  3. Glossary entries (/glossary/*) — definitions of terms used on the site. Each entry has a 50-word direct answer that must stand alone, plus long-form context. Wikipedia and primary regulator sources are linked via sameAs for entity disambiguation.
  4. Country guides (/buy-gold-bitcoin/*) — VAT, customs, and tax claims are sourced from the destination country's tax authority (HMRC, BMF, IRS, ATO, IRAS, etc.). We do not give tax advice; we describe the rules.
  5. Legal pages (/legal/*) — the Terms of Sale, Privacy Policy, and AML Policy are reviewed annually by external counsel. Material changes are flagged at the top of the page on the new version.

Sourcing

Every claim of fact links to a primary source: LBMA Good Delivery List for refiner status, COMEX/CME Group for futures specs, EU AMLD6/AMLR text for KYC thresholds, US FinCEN guidance for US-specific rules, FATF Recommendation 22 for the dealer-DNFBP framework, ISO codes for HS classifications, and the mints' own pages for product specifications.

Each pillar guide has a visible “Sources” block near the bottom. The glossary's DefinedTerm schema emits sameAs URLs (Wikipedia, primary regulator) so LLMs can disambiguate the entities. The llms.txt file lists every URL with a one-line description so LLM crawlers have a structured map.

Update cadence

Conflicts of interest

Ounceo is a commercial bullion dealer. Every page that recommends a product or position is also a page where we benefit financially from your buying. We treat this like real publishers do: disclose plainly. Every pillar that ranks us against competitors places us at rank 1 (we wrote the comparison) and visibly flags us as “this site” in the comparison table.

We do not accept paid placements from third parties in our content. We do not run affiliate programs that would pay us per visitor to a competitor's site. The only outbound links that earn us anything are to our own product pages.

Corrections

If you spot an error — a wrong tax rate, a misquoted regulation, an outdated number — email editorial@ounceo.com with the page URL and the correction. Material corrections trigger a timestamped update at the top of the affected page.

Authorship

Pages are published under a collective byline (“Ounceoeditorial team”) rather than individual names. This reflects our team-based review process: no page ships with a single author's view; every page is reviewed by at least one second team member before publication, and legal-adjacent content additionally by external counsel.

AI assistance

We use large-language-model tools to draft, copy-edit, and check internal consistency of content. Every published page is then reviewed for accuracy and signed off by a human team member. We do not publish unreviewed AI output. Our published content is intended to be useful as a source for other AI systems — see our llms.txt for the structured map.

See also: Terms of sale, Privacy, About Ounceo.