Disclaimer

The standard disclaimer

FactoryPass China provides practical business verification, document review, supplier risk screening, and fieldwork coordination based on information available at the time of review.

Our services do not constitute legal advice, financial advice, certification, a formal factory audit, a product inspection, laboratory testing, or a guarantee of supplier performance, product quality, delivery, regulatory compliance, or future conduct.

Customers remain responsible for final supplier selection, contracts, payment decisions, product compliance, professional inspection, customs clearance, and import requirements.

Live visits specifically

A live factory video visit is a visual verification service, not a formal factory audit, product inspection, legal due diligence, financial audit, or certification.

A live visit reports visible conditions at one site at one moment, within the access the supplier permits. Staged or temporarily prepared areas may exist; only visible areas can be reported; and no visit establishes future quality, capacity, financial stability or regulatory compliance.

How to read our risk language

Our reports use five levels of visible risk. “Visible” is a deliberate limitation: each level describes the evidence we reviewed, not an assessment of matters outside it.

• Low visible risk: No material inconsistency was found in the information reviewed. This is not a guarantee, and it does not speak to matters outside the reviewed evidence.
• Moderate visible risk: Some gaps or minor inconsistencies were found and require clarification before payment.
• Elevated visible risk: Material inconsistencies, adverse records, or unresolved identity or payment issues were found.
• High visible risk: Serious identity, payment, legal-status or access concerns were found. Do not proceed without further professional review.
• Insufficient information: The available evidence does not support a reliable assessment. We say so rather than guess.

No level — including “low visible risk” — is an endorsement, a certification or a recommendation to transact. There is deliberately no “safe” or “approved” rating.

No professional advice

Nothing on this website or in our deliverables is legal, financial, tax, customs or investment advice, and no content here creates a professional-client relationship of any of those kinds. Where your decision requires licensed advice, engage the relevant professional in the relevant jurisdiction.

Third parties and external information

Our reports draw on public registries and other sources that update on their own schedules and may contain errors we cannot detect. Findings are accurate to the stated sources on the stated review date. References to platforms, badge programs or third-party services describe their publicly stated function and are not endorsements.

Website content

Guides and articles on this site are general information, current as at their stated update dates. Sample reports and sample cases are clearly labelled illustrations using fictional data; they describe no real supplier or client.