Editorial policy

Everything on this site is written for it. Nothing is copied from a product page or from anywhere else. These are the rules we hold ourselves to.

Only what can be checked

A capacity, a print size, a page count or a price appears only where we have it. Adjectives that cannot be verified against the album on your table do not appear in a specification, because there is no way to be wrong about them and therefore no way to be right.

Sources

Where a page touches how photographs age, how they should be stored, or what "photo-safe" means, it cites a public institution and prints the date we read the page. Every source was opened and read before the sentence beside it was written, and the sentence was written to the source rather than the source hunted to fit a sentence.

Those sources say inconvenient things and we print those too. Conservators advise against self-adhesive "magnetic" pages for long-term keeping, and we sell magnetic albums; our pages say what they are for and what they are not. The Photographic Activity Test is confidential to the laboratory that runs it, so no certificate number appears here.

The company story

The sections about how we work and who does the work describe roles and habits. The company facts we print are the ones we can stand behind: family-owned, Chatsworth, California, since 1972. Staff numbers, awards, test results and factory details do not appear, and the team section describes roles rather than people, without photographs.

Reviews

Customer reviews on the front page are quoted word for word, with name, star rating and date, and each links to the album it is about. We do not write testimonials, and we do not remove the ones below five stars.

What we do not do

We do not describe an album as suitable for a use it was not made for, and where a public institution draws a line we print the line rather than working around it.

Corrections

Errors get corrected on the next update. Write to hello@mypioneerphotoalbums.com.