Editorial Policy
Editorial Policy — RecoverFunds.ca
RecoverFunds.ca publishes information about companies that financial regulators have warned the public about. This policy sets out how we do that and what we will not do.
Independence
We are an independent registry. We are not a government body, not a regulator, and not affiliated with any of the authorities whose warnings we report on.
We do not accept payment to list a company, to remove a company, or to alter the wording of a page. There is no paid placement, no sponsored entry and no advertising from financial firms anywhere on this site. Where we are contacted by an operator disputing a page, the dispute is assessed against the source; it is not resolved by negotiation.
We are not a law firm, a brokerage, or a fund recovery service, and we do not take a percentage of any amount recovered.
Sourcing
Every company entry is anchored to a published warning from a named regulator, carries the date of that warning, and links to the original notice. The regulator's own wording about the company is quoted directly from that notice.
We do not publish an entry on the strength of user reports alone. Reports from people who have dealt with a platform tell us how an operation is behaving now and are valuable for keeping pages current, but the entry itself rests on the regulatory record. The full method is on the how we verify page.
Language
Three rules govern how these pages are written, and they exist because getting them wrong causes real harm.
We never promise or imply recovery. Not a guarantee, not a likelihood, not an encouraging estimate. People who have just lost money are the most receptive audience in the world to exactly that suggestion, which is precisely why fraudulent recovery operations lead with it.
We always carry the upfront-fee warning. Every page that discusses recovery states that anyone charging a fee in advance to retrieve funds is running a second scam. This is not optional page furniture. It is the single most useful sentence on the site.
We do not allege crimes on our own authority. We report what a regulator has published, what the registration record shows, and what the documented pattern is. Where we describe how an operation works, we are describing a pattern that regulators have documented, and we say so.
Review
Company entries are reviewed against the source notice by a named member of the editorial team before publication, and each page carries that reviewer's name and the date the page was last reviewed. The reviewers are listed on the editorial team page.
Corrections
We correct errors and we do it openly. The process, and what to send us, is on the corrections policy page.
Privacy of people who report to us
Case details submitted through our reporting form are used to advise the person who submitted them and, in aggregate and without identifying detail, to keep registry entries current. We do not publish the identity of anyone who reports a case. We do not sell or share submitted case data with recovery firms, law firms or any other commercial party.
Naming of individuals
Where a regulator's warning names an individual, we name that individual and attribute the naming to the regulator. We do not name individuals on our own initiative, and we do not publish personal information about people beyond what appears in the regulatory record.
Clone and impersonation cases
A significant share of warnings concern operations impersonating a real, registered firm. Those pages state clearly that the genuine firm is the victim of the impersonation and is not connected to the fraud. If you represent a company being impersonated, contact us through the corrections policy page and we will make sure the distinction on the page is unmistakable.