The short version
Brand links and bonus headlines were supplied for publication. If you use an affiliate link, the publisher may earn a commission. You do not pay this website an extra fee for that. The price of a deposit, if you make one somewhere else, is set by the operator.
Commission can be earned whether or not the bonus is good value, and whether or not the operator is authorised to offer the service to you. Read the Legals page for the Australian limits.
- Affiliate means a paid referral, not a partnership that runs your account.
- You should be able to see the relationship without hunting for it.
- The homepage order is not an independent consumer ranking.
- A commission does not verify wagering rules.
How a commission works
A typical affiliate link carries a code so the destination can tell which site sent the visit. If you later register or meet a condition in the operator’s affiliate programme, a fee may be paid to the publisher. Programmes differ. This page does not publish the rate, the threshold, or which click counts, because those commercial terms are not part of the reader-facing offer.
The fee is between the publisher and the programme. It is not added as a line on a page for you to pay. It can still affect which brands are presented, because a site can only list links it has been given.
- The link may record the source of the visit.
- Registration or another action may be required before a fee is paid.
- We do not publish a rate card.
- Not every outbound link is necessarily paid. Help links and ACMA links are not affiliate links.
What you see on the page
Review pages mark bonus buttons as sponsored where they leave for a brand offer. The footer repeats a short advertising line and links here. The homepage comparison uses the same supplied links.
Logos identify the brand. They are not a claim that the brand endorses this explanation, and they are not a claim that we audited the brand.
- Look for the bonus button and the footer disclosure together.
- A “Read review” link stays on this site. A “View bonus” link leaves it.
- Payment logos illustrate names the operator has shown. They are not affiliate badges.
- Support logos in the footer link to help services, not to casino offers.
What the list does not claim
The homepage order and the editorial scores are publisher judgements about the supplied material. They are not a survey of players, not a lab test of payouts, and not a certificate of safety. A higher score can sit next to a commercial link. The score is still not a statement that the casino is authorised in Australia.
The editorial policy explains how the text is written: supplied headlines are separated from sourced legal notes, and unverified points are named.
- No current-offer guarantee is made.
- No licence check is claimed for the listed brands.
- A paid link can appear on a lower-ranked brand as well as a higher-ranked one.
- Ignoring a listing does not cost you a fee on this site.
Australian advertising limits
ACMA states that online casino services must not be offered to people in Australia, including by offshore operators. Banned services must not be advertised in Australia. An overseas licence does not authorise an online casino to serve Australia.
Publishing this disclosure does not make prohibited advertising lawful. If you are deciding whether to use a service, the legal limit matters more than the fact that a link can pay a commission.
- A sponsored label is a transparency tool, not an approval.
- An affiliate programme based overseas does not create Australian authorisation.
- Read ACMA’s page rather than relying on this summary alone.
- The consumer warning linked from Legals explains the risk of losing money.
ACMA: About the Interactive Gambling Act.
How to read a review with this in mind
Use the review to see the headline, the categories the operator has named, and the checks that are still open. Then use the operator’s own terms for wagering, expiry and country rules. The commercial link is only the route off the site. It is not evidence that those terms are light, or that a withdrawal will be fast.
If you do not want to use a tracked link, do not use the bonus button. The review text can still be read on this site.
- Compare conditions, not only the dollar figure.
- Treat region blocks as the end of the path, not a puzzle.
- Keep the support page separate from any offer.
- Do not send account documents to this website.