diff --git a/CppCoreGuidelines.md b/CppCoreGuidelines.md
index 380bfbf..da75125 100644
--- a/CppCoreGuidelines.md
+++ b/CppCoreGuidelines.md
@@ -3833,7 +3833,7 @@ How would a maintainer know whether `j` was deliberately uninitialized (probably
 **Example*:
 
 	class B {
-	private:
+	protected:
 	    B() { /* ... */ }					// create an imperfectly initialized object
 
 	    virtual void PostInitialize()       // to be called right after construction
@@ -3859,7 +3859,7 @@ How would a maintainer know whether `j` was deliberately uninitialized (probably
 
 	shared_ptr<D> p = D::Create<D>();		// creating a D object
 
-By making the constructor `private` we avoid an incompletely constructed object escaping into the wild.
+By making the constructor `protected` we avoid an incompletely constructed object escaping into the wild.
 By providing the factory function `Create()`, we make construction (on the free store) convenient.
 
 **Note**: Conventional factory functions allocate on the free store, rather than on the stack or in an enclosing object.