Trust

At http://www.checkthetrades.com/ we like to call ourselves the online directory of businesses you can trust.  Which begs the question: why can you trust the businesses we have listed?  There are several reasons:

• We actually go out and meet the business owners or managers and get to know them.  A business cannot be listed by simply filling out an on-line form like many general directories.
• Every listed business has signed our Code of Conduct: http://www.checkthetrades.com/home/code_of_conduct, this is very important to us.  There is a right way and a wrong way to treat people, we want to ensure things are done the right way.
• We collect lots of information from each business which is presented on their listing; they sign off on this information as being true and accurate
• We get references from each one and then call those references to verify them

We take the process of certifying new listings seriously.  Afer all, if we didn't we would be just another directory and not the directory of businesses you can trust.

You can see our full certification process at: http://www.checkthetrades.com/home/certification
and a fuller explanation on how our process works at: http://www.checkthetrades.com/home/how_it_works