Disclaimer

What this site is, and what it is not

Newfound Times publishes journalism for general information. We report what happened, who said it, and where the document or figure came from. Nobody reads a disclaimer for pleasure and we have not tried to make this one entertaining, but the distinction it draws is one our readers act on, so it is worth setting out clearly.

Nothing on this site is professional advice. A story about a court ruling is not legal advice about your situation. A story about a market move is not a recommendation to buy or sell anything. A story about a health study is not medical advice about your body. For a decision that matters, speak to a qualified professional who can look at your actual circumstances, because we cannot and do not.

News changes fast, and so do the facts in it

This is the part worth reading twice. News is a description of a situation at a moment in time. A figure that is correct when we publish can be revised within the hour. An official position stated in the morning can be reversed by the afternoon. A developing story is, by definition, incomplete, and the early version is a first draft written under pressure with the facts that were available.

We date our reporting and we update it as things move, but we cannot guarantee that every article reflects the very latest position at the exact second you read it. Treat older stories as a record of what was known then, not a statement of what is true now, and check the date before you rely on anything time sensitive.

Health, money, and legal information

We cover health, personal finance, business, and legal affairs because they matter to our readers, not because we are qualified to advise you on them. When we report a health guideline, an interest rate decision, a benefit change, or a new regulation, we are telling you what was announced, not telling you what to do about it. Your circumstances are specific and ours is general coverage. The gap between the two is exactly where a professional belongs.

If a story summarises a study, a report, or a document, read the original where you can. Our summary is a starting point that we try to get right, not a substitute for the source.

Opinion, analysis, and outside voices

Some of what we publish is comment and analysis rather than straight reporting, and it is labelled that way. Those pieces are the argument of the person writing them. They are not the settled position of Newfound Times and they are certainly not advice to you. Where a contributor writes for us, their view is their own. How we separate reporting from opinion is described in our editorial standards.

Links and third party content

We link to other websites when they are useful, including sources, official pages, and reporting elsewhere. Those sites are not under our control. We are not responsible for their accuracy, their availability, or how they handle your data, and a link from us is not an endorsement of everything on the far end of it. When you follow a link away from this site, the other site’s terms and privacy practices apply, not ours.

Advertising and any sponsored content are the responsibility of the advertiser, and we do not warrant the products or services promoted. What we allow and refuse is on our advertise page.

Getting it right, and telling us when we did not

None of this is a licence to be careless, and it is not meant to be read that way. We take accuracy seriously and we correct mistakes openly, which is the whole point of our corrections policy. A disclaimer sets the outer limits of what a general news site can responsibly promise. It does not lower the standard we hold ourselves to inside those limits.

If you think something we published is wrong or out of date, write to support@newfoundtimes.com with the link and the detail. We would always rather fix an error than leave it standing behind a disclaimer.