This page sets out the standards we hold ourselves to: where our facts come from, how we use AI, how we correct mistakes, and who pays us. If we ever fall short of what is written here, we want you to hold us to it.
1. Who is responsible
CineParenting is edited by Ritu Kandpal, who is accountable for everything published on this site, including its errors. She is a parent of three, based in India.
Guides are written by our four contributors, each covering what they actually watch: Ritu Kandpal (editor), Heena (series and drama), Vijay (film, action and superhero), and Neha (animation and younger viewers). Between us we are raising eight children.
Every guide carries a named byline and a date. Nothing on this site is published anonymously.
Contact: [email protected]
2. Our sourcing standards
Every factual claim on this site should be traceable. In practice that means:
- Age ratings are always taken from the official classification body — the MPA, the BBFC, the TV Parental Guidelines board, the ESRB — and linked to the source. We never estimate a certificate, and we never quote one we have not checked.
- The official rating reason is quoted verbatim wherever one exists. It is the most reliable sentence available, and paraphrasing it loses information.
- Release dates, cast and runtime come from the distributor or from IMDb, and are checked against at least one of them.
- Content descriptions in a Verified Guide come from watching the title. Not from other reviews, not from a plot summary, not from a trailer.
Where we cannot verify something, we say we cannot verify it. “We don’t know yet” is an acceptable thing to publish. Guessing is not.
3. We label every guide with what it is built from
We cannot watch everything, and a site that implies otherwise is not being straight with its readers. So every guide carries one of three badges:
- 🎬 Verified Guide — a named person on our team watched the title in full. The guide says who, and when.
- 📋 Research-Based Guide — built from the official certificate and rating reason and published material. We have not screened it ourselves, and we say so on the page.
- 📅 Pre-Release Guide — the title is not out yet. We upgrade it once it is released and watched.
We are working through our back catalogue and upgrading guides to Verified as fast as we can genuinely watch them. Our full method is on the How We Rate page.
We do not describe scenes we have not seen. This is the line we will not cross, and it is the one we most want you to hold us to.
4. How we use AI
We use AI tools for research support, first drafts, formatting and editing assistance. We think this is unremarkable, and we would rather tell you than have you wonder.
What AI does not do here:
- It does not decide an age rating. Certificates come from classification bodies; age-band verdicts are set by a human.
- It does not watch films, and it is never the source of a content description in a Verified Guide.
- It does not publish. A named human reviews and signs off every page before it goes live.
Our test is simple: would a parent feel misled if they knew exactly how this page was made? If yes, we do not do it.
5. Corrections
If we get something wrong, we want to know.
Email [email protected] with the page URL and what is incorrect. We aim to correct factual errors within seven days.
When we correct something material, we do it in the open: a dated correction note is added to the bottom of the page saying what was wrong and what we changed. We do not silently edit a page and pretend the error never happened. A site that never appears to make mistakes is not a careful site — it is a site that hides them.
6. Updates and freshness
- Pre-Release Guides are updated to Verified Guides after the title is released and watched.
- Guides are re-checked when a certificate changes, when a title is re-cut for streaming, or when a reader tells us something has changed.
- Every page shows the date it was last reviewed, not just the date it was first published. If a page has not been touched in a long time, you deserve to see that.
7. Independence
CineParenting is free to read and funded by advertising.
- Advertisers have no input into our guides and no advance sight of them.
- No studio, distributor, streaming platform or PR agency has ever paid for a guide, a verdict, a placement or a link — and we will not accept such an arrangement. If we ever publish sponsored content, it will be labelled as such, at the top, unmistakably.
- We link to streaming services so you can find where to watch a title. Those links are for your convenience and do not influence what we say about the content.
8. What we will not do
- We will not describe content we have not seen as though we have seen it.
- We will not publish under a byline that is not a real person.
- We will not present an estimated certificate as an official one.
- We will not let an advertiser change a verdict.
9. Privacy and your data
See our Privacy Policy. In short: we use Google Analytics and Google AdSense, and we do not sell your data.
Last updated: 14 July 2026. This policy is reviewed annually.