Editorial standards

This page is the contract behind the rest of the site. It says who writes the reviews, how a site gets tested, what our dates mean, how money is kept away from ratings, and what happens when we get something wrong.

Who writes the reviews

Reviews, comparisons, and guides are written and maintained by the Asian Kisses Editorial Team and published by Asian Kisses, which is owned and operated by ConnectEra LLC. We publish under a team byline. We don't invent reviewer personas, show AI-generated photos of authors or reviewers, or claim credentials nobody on the team holds. The illustrations on our pages are AI-generated and labelled as such (see use of AI tools).

How a dating site is tested

Every site we rate is tested with a real account for at least two weeks before the rating is published. We use the free features first, then buy the plan or credit package most members would buy, message real profiles, try the mobile app where there is one, and contact customer support. The five rating categories and their weights are on the methodology page.

Facts that come from the dating site itself — prices, plan names, features, refund and cancellation terms, company details — are checked against the site's own pages. Where a site does not publish something (member numbers, company ownership, the ratio of men to women), we say it is not publicly disclosed rather than estimate a number and present it as fact.

What our dates mean

• Last tested on a review is the date of our most recent hands-on test of that site.
• Updated moves only when the page's content substantially changes — a re-test, a price change, a new section. Fixing a typo or changing a page title does not count.
• Dates are never stamped automatically when the site is rebuilt. The dates in our sitemap come from the same real dates you see on the page.

A review with an older date is not necessarily wrong; it means we have not had a reason to change it since. If you know of a change we have missed, tell us.

Independence from affiliate money

Right now none of our links is an affiliate link, so we earn no commissions (full disclosure). If that changes, the money will have no role in ratings: commission rates are not a rating category, and dating sites cannot pay for a review or a ranking. A review that contains an affiliate link says so at the top of the page.

Use of AI tools

We use AI writing tools to help draft, edit, and translate some articles. Test findings, ratings, prices, and verdicts come from our own testing and from the dating sites' own pages, not from a language model. A person on the team edits and checks every page before it is published.

The photo-style illustrations used across the site (on the home page and at the top of reviews, guides, comparisons and ranking pages) are made with an AI image-generation model. Each one carries an "AI-generated illustration" label. The people in them are not real: they are not our reviewers, and they are not members of any dating site we review. Images that show a dating site's own pages are labelled as captures of that site's public website.

What we won't publish

• Content that treats people as products: no "mail-order bride" catalogues, and nothing that promotes paying for sex, escorts, or "renting" a companion. Where the paid-companionship economy matters to readers — in tourist nightlife districts, for example — we mention it only to warn about it.
• Reviews bought by a dating site, or a ranking position for sale.
• Fake user reviews, invented success stories, or testimonials we can't verify.
• Advice that helps anyone deceive or pressure the people they meet.

Safety comes first in reviews

Romance scams target exactly the audience this site serves. When we see scam patterns during a test — profiles that push to move off the platform immediately, requests for money, operator-style scripted chat on credit sites — we report them in the review even when it lowers the site's score. Our scam guide collects the patterns we see most.

Corrections

If something on the site is wrong or out of date, email [email protected] with the page address and, if you can, a link to the dating site's own page showing the current version. We check it against that source. If we were wrong, we fix the page and, when the change affects a price, a feature, a safety point, or a rating, we move the page's Updated date so readers can see it changed. Rating changes are explained in the review.