Who runs this index, and how a record is made.

This site certifies nothing. It lists places and shows what each one publishes, with the source beside every claim.

It does not assess a property, award it anything, or issue a mark of its own.

Where a record shows a certification, that certification was issued by somebody else and the record names them: WELL by the International WELL Building Institute, Green Key by the Foundation for Environmental Education, and so on down the list on standards.

We report the mark, its scope and its dates. We do not grant it and we cannot withdraw it.

HGCS is the mark we are closest to

HGCS is one of those marks. Human Garage issues it, and publishes its own programme at certifiedspaces.org.

A record showing the HGCS mark is this index reporting another body’s certification. We use the same words we use for any other issuer. The relationship is disclosed on the record itself.

What the mark means is set out on certified stays and in the terms.

Each record sets out what we know about a property across the eight pathways, and how we know it.

Records are built from three things.

• What the property publishes, on its own site and elsewhere.
• What the property sends us.
• For stays Human Garage has visited, what Human Garage saw in person, recorded as a visit note.

Every record shows its sources and the date we read them.

A low score, or a gap, means information was not published. It does not mean a property is unsafe, unhealthy or poorly run.

The full method, the evidence tiers and the criteria behind every pathway are on how we check.

What a record cannot tell you

Every record is a snapshot of what a property had published when we read it, and that date is on the page. Conditions change: a property can refit, change suppliers or replace a system at any time, and nothing requires it to tell us.

We re-read records and ask properties directly for updates, but there will always be a gap between what is true today and what was published when we looked. Use this as a frame of reference for what to ask, not as a substitute for asking.

Take your own questions to the property before you book, and tell us if you find something we have wrong.

We publish a judgement about a named business, so we publish an address to answer it at.

If something here is out of date or wrong, write to corrections@verifiedwellnessspaces.com. A property answering a record of its own can write to reply@verifiedwellnessspaces.com.

Corrections we make are logged in public, in the changelog. A property can also send evidence through the claim form.

Everything this index publishes is available as data, free to use with attribution. One row per claim, each carrying its source, the date we read it and how much weight it can hold. It is built in the same pass as the pages, so a file cannot disagree with the page beside it. See the data feed.

The inclusion and review rules say who qualifies for a record, how one is built, how a correction is checked and what would get a record removed. Where something is not settled yet, that page says so.