Editorial standards
How we write and check what's on Kindrd
Kindrd publishes three kinds of writing: guides, blog posts and city pages. For LGBTQ+ people, a wrong date, a dead helpline or a missing law is not a small mistake, so this page says what we hold ourselves to.
Guides and blog posts
Guides are practical advice for dating as an LGBTQ+ adult. They are not medical, mental-health or legal advice, and where a situation carries real risk (being outed, meeting a stranger, an unsafe partner) they say so plainly rather than telling you to take it. We do not invent statistics, studies, quotes or people. When a guide describes something people commonly experience, it says it is describing a pattern, not citing a survey.
We do not name other dating apps or companies in our writing, and nothing on these pages is paid placement. The blog is different in kind: it is where we explain why Kindrd is built the way it is, so it is written from our own point of view and says so.
City pages
Every local fact on a city page comes from a primary source: the Pride organiser, a community centre or charity, a council, a government or statute page. Each page lists the sources it relied on and the date they were last checked, in the “Checked” line under the support section. Each fact is read from its source and checked a second time against it before it is published.
- Pride and events. We link the organiser's own site and give a date only when the organiser has published it. Where a date has not been announced, the page says so rather than guessing.
- The legal picture. This is general context, not legal advice, and it is dated. Where the law differs for trans people, or has recently changed, we say so rather than reporting only the protections.
- Support and helplines. We give a number only when the organisation's own page states it, with the hours it is answered. A helpline with no hours listed is worse than none.
- Bars and clubs are left out. Venues close, and a stale recommendation sends someone to a locked door. Community centres, clinics, archives and charities last longer.
The London guides
The London guides(galleries, music, markets, fashion, community support and getting home safely) follow the same rules as city pages. Facts are taken from the place or organisation's own page where it can be read, and from a named reference source where it cannot; every guide lists its sources and says which is which. Several venue and transport sites block automated reading, so where a specific such as an opening time could not be confirmed from the venue itself, we leave it out and point you to the venue's page instead.
These guides are drafted with AI assistance. Every claim is then checked against its source by a separate review pass, and anything that cannot be confirmed is removed or softened. We leave out bars, clubs and restaurants for the reason given above, and we do not describe a visit we have not made: the guides report what the sources say, not what we saw.
When something is wrong
Laws, dates and services change, and we will sometimes be behind. If something on a page is out of date or wrong, email hello@kindrdlove.appwith the page and what you know. We correct it, and we change a page's “Checked” date only when we have genuinely re-checked it against its sources, never to make it look fresh.
If you are in danger, contact your local emergency number. The organisations on city pages are there for support, not emergencies.