At Sandy Toes & Popsicles, we are dedicated to delivering content of the highest quality. Our writing aims to produce original, precise, and captivating material while ensuring it remains free from ethical concerns or conflicts.
If you happen to come crossed an article that you believe requires changes, feel free to contact us at hello@sandytoesandpopsicles.com.
Our Content Integrity Promise
Here at Sandy Toes & Popsicles, we're all about delivering top-notch content that you can trust from our very own experiences. Jill and other on the team, produce the writering, editoring, illustrating, photography, and more! We allow experts in various fields that w are unfamiliar with, review our content continuously. We want to make sure it's always up-to-date, accurate, and, most importantly, serves the needs of our readers.
When you dive into our articles, you'll find each one is a labor of love, created by us! Real humans. We make sure to highlight the people behind the scenes with bylines, brief descriptions, and links for more info. You'll see the latest update date too, so you know we're keeping things fresh.
No robots here! We're against using AI tools like ChatGPT to generate content automatically. Our illustrations, graphics, images, and videos? All made in-house, and we team up with experts to ensure they represent diverse voices and perspectives.
Mistakes happen, but we're transparent about it. If we goof up, we'll fix it. So please speak up if something is wrong. Our team is committed to disclosing any potential conflicts of interest. We keep our editorial content totally separate from advertising – no mixing here! Your trust is important to us, so we're clear about what's editorial and what's advertising. So thanks for being part of our awesome community!
If you have noticed an issue you would like to bring to our attention, please let us know by emailing hello@sandytoesandpopsicles.com.
Accuracy and Corrections
Our editorial team is committed to producing high quality, factual content. If there is an error in a story, we will correct the error as quickly as possible. All corrections will be clearly labeled as such, and will include what was changed and when. When an article is factually correct, but the language is not as detailed as necessary, the story may be updated without a note.
When it comes to news articles, they're like a snapshot in time, so we don't always update these. But our evergreen content? That's like our treasure trove of helpful info. We do our best to keep it fresh, reviewing it, fact-checking, and updating it regularly. And just so you know, we stamp each article with a date to show you when we last gave it a spruce-up.
If you would like to report an error, you can do so by emailing hello@sandytoesandpopsicles.com.
Sourcing
Our writers and editors adhere to strict standards for article sourcing. We rely on current and reputable primary sources, such as expert interviews, government organizations, and professional and academic institutions. All data points, facts, and claims are backed up by at least one reputable source.
We strongly discourage use of anonymous or unnamed sourcing, as this can erode transparency and reader trust. In the rare instance where an unnamed source is used, we will disclose to readers the reason behind the anonymity and provide necessary context.
A cornerstone of our reporting and sourcing is to consider often overlooked perspectives from minority groups. Our content strives to serve all communities.
Diversity and Anti Bias
At Sandy Toes & Popsicles, we're all about treating everyone with respect and making sure everyone feels included. Our goal is to create content that supports people of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, ages, abilities, religions, and different economic situations. We're in this together!
Independence and Impartiality
Sandy Toes & Popsicles is committed to independent, impartial, fair journalism. Our editorial content is not influenced by our advertisers. Every writer is held accountable to a high standard of honesty and transparency.
We keep things crystal clear here! At Sandy Toes & Popsicles, we make sure there's a strict divide between the stuff you read for information (that's our editorial content) and the stuff that's promoting something (that's our "Sponsored Content"). We'll always label anything sponsored so you know it's from an advertiser or sponsor.
We're on a mission to give you the lowdown on stuff that really helps. When we review products or services at Sandy Toes & Popsicles, we're all about being unbiased and thorough. Our reviews are super independent, backed up by solid research and testing.
Now, if you click on any "affiliate links" in what we write, and you end up buying something, we might get a little commission. But here's the deal – we don't get anything for pushing a certain product. Our recommendations are straight from the heart!
Sandy Toes & Popsicles' writers and editors are prohibited from giving preferential treatment to any outside resource (company, publication, video, affiliate, website) based on their relationship with the person or company who authors or owns that resource. We will disclose any potential conflicts of interest - any relationship, financial, or personal, with any source or resource that may compromise their ability to provide fair and impartial information.
Just like a lot of other influencers and websites who publish stuff, our writers at Sandy Toes & Popsicles sometimes get freebies like products or services to check out and review. We're all about being upfront, so we'll always let you know when we've received something cool for review.
We're here to give you the straight story without any strings attached!
Originality
Our goal of Sandy Toes & Popsicles is to provide original, useful, and unbiased content. All information must be verified, properly attributed, and may not infringe the copyright or anyone's intellectual property rights. Any suggestion of plagiarism is investigated fully and is grounds for dismissal. We expect all contributors on the network to abide by all applicable laws, standards, and accepted journalistic practices including: