Disclosure &
editorial policy

Editorial independence

TanLab's reviews are written by TanLab and nobody else. No brand, agency, distributor or advertiser sees a review before it publishes, and none has ever been given the ability to change a score, delay a verdict or remove a criticism. If that condition is ever attached to a unit, the unit is declined and the fact is stated on air.

Where test units come from

Every review states which of these applies:

• Bought at retail. Purchased with TanLab's own money, at normal price, from a normal shop. This is the default.
• Loaned and returned. Supplied by a brand or distributor for a fixed period and sent back after testing.
• Supplied to keep. Sent by a brand and not returned. Disclosed prominently — in the video and at the top of the written review.

None of the three changes the test. The same protocol runs regardless, and a retail unit and a supplied unit are scored on the same scale.

Affiliate links

Some links on this site and in video descriptions are affiliate links, meaning TanLab may earn a small commission if you buy through them. This costs you nothing extra.

• Affiliate links are labelled where they appear.
• Commission rates play no part in scoring, ranking or which products get reviewed.
• A product that loses a comparison stays lost, even when it is the one with the better commission.
• Products that score badly still get linked, because "here's the thing I told you not to buy" is a valid reason to link.

Sponsorship

Sponsored segments may appear in videos. When they do:

• The segment is announced clearly, in the video and in the description, and marked with YouTube's paid-promotion disclosure.
• The sponsor is never the product under review in that video.
• Sponsors get airtime and nothing else — no score, no ranking, no editorial input, no advance view of the review.
• Sponsorship of one video buys no protection in any future one.

Corrections

Measurements are made by people and people get things wrong. When a TanLab test result is found to be incorrect:

• The correction is added at the top of the written review, dated, saying what changed and why.
• A pinned comment goes on the video.
• If the score changes, the original score stays visible beside the corrected one. Scores are not quietly edited.

To report an error, use the contact page.

Use of AI

Test measurements, verdicts and scores are produced by human testing — no AI-generated review, score or test result is ever published. AI tools may be used for routine production work such as transcription, subtitle drafting and copy-editing. No product is ever "reviewed" from a spec sheet, a press release or a model's summary of one.

Comparisons

Competing products in a head-to-head are chosen on price and availability, not on relationship. A brand cannot buy its way into — or out of — a comparison, and a brand that declines to supply a unit still gets compared using a retail-bought one wherever possible.