Disclaimer

The point of this page

THUNDER TIGER publishes journalism. Journalism describes the world; it does not stand behind the decisions readers make after reading it. This page draws that line explicitly, section by section, because the people who most need to see it are the ones scanning an article about a currency move, a trial result, a safety notice or a cancelled service in the last few minutes before committing to something.

Nothing below is a retreat from the reporting. We check before publishing and repair mistakes in public afterwards. What this page separates is the act of establishing a fact from the act of telling somebody what to do about it, which we do not do.

Business stories are not investment guidance

The business desk writes about firms, lenders, exchanges, currencies, regulators and economies. It never advises on holdings. Reporting a set of results says nothing about whether the shares are worth owning. Reporting a central bank decision forecasts nothing about your own borrowing. Reporting on a flotation, a fund or a token asserts nothing about whether any of it is sound. No article here constitutes investment, tax, accounting or trading advice, and reading one puts nobody in an advisory relationship with us. Decisions involving your money belong with somebody licensed to give that advice who has looked at your actual circumstances.

Research coverage is not clinical guidance

Our science and lifestyle desks summarise studies, trends and practices. An article about a piece of research reports what was measured, how the work was designed, and which limitations the researchers themselves flagged. It is not an instruction to begin, abandon or adjust any treatment, drug, diet or training routine. A result in laboratory animals is written up as a result in laboratory animals, and one study is presented as one study rather than as a settled conclusion. Nothing here is medical, dietary, psychological or fitness advice. Where your health is in play, the person to consult is a clinician who can actually examine you.

Product coverage is not a promise about your purchase

Specifications, prices, release windows, compatibility and feature lists come from manufacturers, publishers and retailers, and all of them shift between announcement and shipping, between one territory and another, and between our publication date and your reading date. A review sets out what happened with the specific unit, car or build we had, in the conditions and over the period we describe. It cannot promise that the same thing will suit you, cooperate with the hardware you already own, or still be offered at the number we printed. Before spending anything, look at the seller’s live listing, and confirm the item is actually sold where you are.

Travel coverage is not clearance to travel

The travel desk covers routes, fares, destinations, entry requirements, strikes and disruption. Those things move without warning and occasionally overnight. An article about them reflects the position at the timestamp it carries and nothing later. It is no substitute for your own government’s current advice, the operator’s own notice or the terms printed on the booking you hold. Check all three before departure, then check them again nearer the day.

Sport, news and the rest

Results, tables, fixtures and statistics come from the official record, which governing bodies revise after the fact, sometimes days later once an appeal is heard. News is written from the best material obtainable at the time and extended as the record fills out. Nothing published here is legal, immigration, security, engineering or betting advice, and reporting on a fixture, a vote or a hearing predicts nothing about the outcome. When an article reports what one side of a dispute asserts, it is recording the assertion, which is a different act from establishing that the assertion is correct.

Timestamps and the shelf life of an article

Publication time appears on everything, and where a piece has been changed, the time of the change appears too. Old articles remain as they were, standing as a record of what could be established then. Rewriting them to match how matters later turned out would destroy the thing that makes an archive worth keeping. What does get added is a correction where a fact was wrong and an update where events have moved. Both procedures live on our corrections policy page, and the checking that precedes publication is described in our fact-checking policy. Before acting on anything involving a price, a rate, a legal status, a timetable or a set of terms, look at the date.

Assertions, images and opinion

Figures issued by an organisation, whether a delivery date, an attendance, a forecast or a sales total, are reported as that organisation’s assertion, with the source named. Repeating an assertion is not confirming it, and anything we could not confirm is marked unverified. Quoting somebody records that the words were said; it does not adopt them. The accuracy of a statement rests with whoever made it, and we push back on statements where the material exists to push back with.

Pictures accompany articles. Where the image is from a library, a stock service, a manufacturer’s rendering, a screen capture or an artist rather than the moment being described, the caption says which. Synthetic imagery is never passed off as a photograph of a real person or a real event.

Opinion, analysis and reviews are labelled where they appear, and what they contain belongs to the writer rather than to the publication. A verdict on a film, a hotel, a car or a game is one informed account of one encounter with it, and yours may not match.

Links, advertising and the absence of warranties

Articles link outwards so that readers can go and verify us. We run none of those destinations, their contents can change or vanish overnight, and their handling of your data is theirs to explain. Embedded material appears exactly as its author published it. Citing something is not approving of it. Advertising is marked and delivered by an outside network, as our advertise page explains; there are no sponsored articles and no paid links here, advertisers’ claims are their own, and we take no part in anything you buy from them.

Spotted an error? Write to support@thundertiger-europe.com, lead with CORRECTION, include the link, and it will be looked at that day. Everything on this site is offered exactly as it stands, with no warranty attached. As far as the law permits, THUNDER TIGER accepts no liability for loss arising from reliance on what is published, trading, purchasing and travel losses included. The full position is in our terms of service.