Editorial policy

Official rules come first

SweepFeed is an independent discovery and information service. SweepFeed does not sponsor, administer, judge, operate, select winners for, or accept entries for third-party promotions. Information submitted on a sponsor's website goes to that sponsor or its service provider, not to SweepFeed.

SweepFeed's software finds promotions on sponsors' websites and public sweepstakes directories, and sponsors can submit their own. For each promotion it fetches the official rules and reads them for the sponsor, the deadline, eligibility, the entry method and the prizes. A fact we show on a listing should come from those rules. When the rules do not support a detail, the listing withholds it or labels it unverified instead of guessing.

SweepFeed summaries are informational. If a SweepFeed listing conflicts with a sponsor's official rules, the official rules control.

What must be true before a listing is published

A promotion is held back from the site, not published, when any of these is true:

• the sponsor the listing would show is not named in the promotion's official rules;
• the title does not name a specific promotion, for example a rules page, a hub page or an error page;
• the Enter button would lead nowhere, to another listing site, to a PDF or rules document, to a winners announcement or to the sponsor's homepage;
• the deadline cannot be confirmed from the promotion's own rules, or it has already passed;
• the prize value is impossible, or the prize description is not supported by anything on the promotion's page.

A held promotion is kept and checked again later, and can be published once the missing evidence is found. Each published listing then shows the result of eight named checks, from whether the rules belong to this promotion to when the listing was last checked. How listings are reviewed explains each check.

How we use automation and AI

Finding promotions, reading rules and running the checks is done by software, including AI language models that extract details from rules documents. Software makes mistakes, so the checks above are shown on every listing rather than hidden in a single score, and missing evidence stays visible as unknown. SweepFeed does not claim that a person has reviewed every listing.

The crawler runs several times a day. Each listing shows when it was last checked, and one of its checks says whether that was within the last seven days.

Articles and guides

Articles and guides are published under the SweepFeed name. They explain general practice, such as how free entry routes work or how prize taxes are reported, and cite primary sources such as the IRS and the FTC where it matters. They are not legal or tax advice. Each article shows when it was published, and we update it when the facts change.

We do not publish invented statistics. Figures on the data notes page are computed from the live catalogue, and each says which listings it counts. The monthly picks are chosen from the live catalogue by the same ranking as the board, and the page explains how.

The monthly picks leave out promotions for alcohol without a 21+ requirement, tobacco and vaping, cannabis and CBD, firearms, gambling, and adult products.

Advertising and independence

Paid placements are labeled Sponsored. Payment may affect placement or visibility, but it cannot buy better evidence or confidence labels, suppress factual corrections, risk warnings, or legitimate user reports, keep an expired listing active, or prevent quarantine or removal. Advertising never changes what an article says. How advertising works on SweepFeed.

Corrections

If a listing or an article is wrong, tell us through the contact form or at support@sweepfeed.com, with the page link and what needs checking. Sponsors and rights holders can request a correction, delisting or takedown the same way; copyright notices go through the DMCA page. We correct errors when we confirm them, and we may remove listings that are expired, misleading, unsafe or infringing.

Who is responsible

SweepFeed is operated by SWEEPFEED LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company. About SweepFeed explains what the service does and how it earns money.