Data Sources & Update Policy

This site publishes numbers people make real decisions with — card fees, loan rates, state legal deadlines. This page states where those numbers come from and how often they’re re-checked.

Where our data comes from

  • Card and loan terms: the issuer’s own current pricing pages, terms documents, and cardholder agreements — never third-party summaries.
  • State law pages (statutes of limitations, wage garnishment limits): the state’s own published code and, where relevant, federal law. Each state page cites the specific statute.
  • Rates data: published lender rate ranges, labeled with the date collected. We do not present daily-feed accuracy we can’t deliver — every rates page says exactly when it was last updated.
  • Regulatory background: federal agencies and statutes (CFPB, FTC, the FCRA and CROA as enacted).

Update cadence

  • Product reviews and roundups: terms re-verified quarterly, and whenever we identify a published issuer change
  • Rates pages: refreshed monthly
  • State law pages: reviewed against legislative sessions annually, and dated

Every data-bearing page displays a “terms verified” or “last updated” date. If a date looks stale or a number looks wrong, tell us — corrections go through primary-source verification, not guesswork.