About Protective Shield

Protective Shield is an informational site about player-built vehicle combat games, written for readers in Australia. It is published as a commercial project, it carries paid links, and this page sets out exactly how that works so you can weigh what you read here accordingly.

Who publishes this

Protective Shield is published by:

Gormet s.r.o. is a company registered in the Czech Republic. It is responsible for everything published here, including the decision about which products are covered and the wording of every page. Protective Shield is a publication of that company and not a separate legal entity.

What the site covers

One subject: online games in which players assemble the vehicles they fight with, and the practical questions around starting one of them from Australia. The material is organised as a six-step path, from the mechanics of the genre through to a profile of a single title, and it is written to be read in order by somebody who has not played anything in the category before.

Deliberately outside the scope are reviews, scores, rankings, hardware recommendations by product name, comparisons of specific commercial titles against one another, and anything that would require testing we have not performed. Where a question needs an authoritative answer that we cannot give, the page names the body that can and links to it.

How coverage is decided

This is the part most sites of this kind leave vague, so it is stated plainly.

1. The title covered in depth is the title we are paid to link to. Step 6 profiles Crossout because Gormet s.r.o. has a commercial arrangement relating to it. There was no selection process among competing titles and we do not claim one.
2. The general material is written independently of that. Steps 1 to 5 contain no paid links and are written to stand on their own, including the parts that advise waiting before spending money.
3. Commercial arrangements do not change the wording. No advertiser, network or third party reviews, approves or edits these pages before publication. The reservations in Step 6 are there because they are true, not because anyone permitted them.
4. Nothing is ranked, because there is nothing to rank against. A single-title site that published scores would be publishing a score with no comparison behind it.
5. Gaps are marked rather than filled. Where a publisher's material does not state something, the page says it is not stated and names where the answer lives.

An honest narrow scope is the position this site takes. If the scope changes, this page changes with it.

Who writes it

Pages are written and reviewed by the Gormet s.r.o. editorial team. We do not publish bylines, staff biographies or photographs, and there are no invented personas here. Responsibility for the content rests with the company named above, and correspondence about anything on the site reaches the same address.

How claims are sourced

Two rules govern what appears on these pages.

• Statements about a specific commercial product come from the publisher's own description of it. Where that description is silent, the page records the silence. We do not repeat figures, features or platform claims we cannot attribute.
• Statements about Australian law, safety practice or classification link to the body that publishes them, such as the ACCC, the Australian Cyber Security Centre, the eSafety Commissioner, the OAIC or Australian Classification. Where we cannot point to a source, the text is phrased as general guidance and is not presented as a finding.

There are no statistics on this site that we generated, no benchmark results, no test scores, no awards and no user testimonials. If you find a number here, it belongs to the body we linked it to.

How it is funded

Through affiliate commission. When a reader follows a paid link from this site to the Crossout website and registers and activates an account there, an advertising network pays Gormet s.r.o. a commission. The reader pays nothing additional, and the amount does not vary with what the page says. Paid links appear on the homepage and on Step 6, each one labelled at the point of use. The complete explanation, including what the arrangement does and does not influence, is on the affiliate disclosure page.

The site carries no display advertising, no sponsored posts, no paid placements sold to third parties and no subscriptions. It collects no personal information, operates no form, sets no cookie and runs no analytics, so there is no data being monetised either. The privacy policy describes exactly what that means.

Corrections

If something here is wrong, we want to know and we will fix it. Write to info@protectiveshield.online with the page address and what you believe is inaccurate. Factual errors are corrected on the page itself, and the review date in the footer is updated when a page changes. Every page carries the date of its last review so you can judge how current it is.

What this site is not

• Not an official site for any game, publisher or platform, and not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any of them.
• Not a news publication, and nothing here is reported journalism.
• Not a shop. Nothing is sold here and no payment is ever taken here.
• Not a download source. No game software is hosted or distributed from this domain.
• Not professional advice. The legal and safety material points to the responsible Australian bodies precisely because they, and not we, are the authority.

Questions about any of the above go to our contact page, which lists the same details as the footer of every page.