Our Editorial Code
GigKiln position
This is the code we write and edit to. It is modelled on the MoneySavingExpert Editorial Code of 25 February 2025, adapted for worker advocacy, and tightened where we think MSE does not go far enough. Every contributor, every sponsor and every reader can hold us to it.
1. Editorial and commercial are separate.
Our editorial team decides what goes on GigKiln. Our commercial team sells sponsorship. They report to different people, they sit in different admin roles in our publishing system, and they do not share decision-making on content. No sponsor sees a guide or a tool before it goes live. No sponsor has ever softened a word on this site, and no sponsor will.
2. Primary sources, always.
Every factual claim on every page is traceable to a source we name and link. Tribunal judgments. HSE guidance. HMRC manuals. legislation.gov.uk. Platform help pages and driver agreements. ICO decisions. Select Committee evidence. TheyWorkForYou for voting records. If we cannot link it, we do not write it. Reddit and TikTok are starting points. They are never our sources.
3. Opinion is labelled as opinion.
Where we publish our own view, we say so. Look for "We believe", "Our view is", "GigKiln's position is". Our guides are neutral explanations of the law and the rules as they stand; clearly-labelled opinion sits alongside, never in place of, the facts.
4. No affiliate links.
We do not use affiliate links anywhere on GigKiln. Not in guides, not in tools, not in comparison tables, not in our emails, not in our downloads, not in podcast notes. Not one. This is stricter than MoneySavingExpert and stricter than almost any free advice site in the UK. We have chosen to remove the incentive entirely so there is no quiet pressure on editors to rank a product higher than it deserves.
5. No paywalls, ever.
Every guide, every tool, every template on GigKiln is free. It always will be. We will not launch a premium tier. We will not paywall a calculator. We will not charge workers to download a letter template when their livelihood is on the line. The Kiln Guides network has signed up to this rule across every vertical we run.
6. Safety and women's content carries no sponsor placement.
We do not sell sponsor adjacency on safety content, assault reporting, women's safety, trans safety, menopause, period health, domestic abuse signposting, mental health content or immigration distress content. These pages run sponsor-free. If a sponsor wants to be near workers' safety, the answer is no.
7. Corrections policy.
We fix mistakes fast and openly. If you spot an error, email us and we will process it within 7 days. A correction note stays on the page. A separate corrections log is public at /corrections. We do not quietly rewrite pages and pretend nothing happened.
8. Right of reply for anyone we name factually.
If we name a company, platform, council, regulator or public body in a factual piece, that organisation has a right of reply. Send us a written response and we will publish it, in full and unedited, adjacent to the piece. This does not extend to asking us to remove or soften the original reporting. The facts stay. Your response sits next to them.
We keep this code under quarterly review. If it changes, the new version is published with a changelog. The current version is 1.0, dated 19 April 2026.
Fresh — reviewed 19 April 2026