How We Get Paid

Reading Gamblers United costs you nothing because a number of casinos reward us when someone we referred opens an account. Here is how the arrangement runs, where it stops, and which parts of the site it never reaches.

Where the money comes from

We belong to affiliate schemes operated by casinos themselves or by networks on their behalf. Depending on the individual contract, we earn a flat fee after a referred reader's first deposit, a slice of what the operator keeps from that player's play in later months, or both. Each operator's terms are negotiated separately. You pay nothing on top, and the offer is exactly what a visitor arriving straight at the casino gets.

What a casino button actually does

Buttons labelled "Visit casino", "Play now" or "Claim bonus" point first to a short path on gamblers-united.com that starts with /go/. That path forwards you to the casino and attaches a reference code, which is how the programme knows the sign-up came from us. During that hand-off our server places mozbiz_session and XSRF-TOKEN; both expire roughly 20 hours later. Separately, every page you open sets mz_vid — a random visitor number that lasts a year — and mz_src, which notes the route you arrived by and lasts 30 days. The privacy policy lists all four.

Casinos we have no contract with

Not every brand we cover pays us. Several reviewed operators pay us nothing whatsoever, and their buttons can pass through /go/ without generating a cent. Being a partner buys no extra space on a page.

What partners cannot buy

Operators cannot pay to lift a score, delete criticism, bury a pattern of complaints or supply their own review copy. No casino previews our articles before they go live. A partner that begins dragging out withdrawals or quietly tightens its terms loses points exactly as a non-partner would.

How the order of a list is decided

Ranked lists follow the criteria on How we rate casinos. When a page is sorted another way — newest launches first, quickest withdrawals, biggest welcome offer — it says so at the top. Commercial terms play no part in any ranking.

How to recognise a paid link

Assume that any button or logo leading to a casino is a partner link that might earn us money. Plain text links to regulators, support charities and game studios are never paid. Should an operator ever pay for a highlighted slot on the homepage, that block will carry a visible "sponsored" label.

Estonian and Latvian sections

Partnerships differ from country to country, so the commercial status of a brand in one section tells you nothing about another. In Estonia and Latvia we list only operators licensed locally; a commercial deal never substitutes for that requirement.

Why this page exists

Commission is the reason a free casino guide can pay writers at all, and readers weigh a recommendation differently once they know money may follow a click. We would rather you have that context up front than discover it in a tracking code. Should any review strike you as advertising copy, quote us the sentence — we re-check flagged passages against the operator's published terms.

When a deal ends

If a partnership finishes, the review stays online and keeps being updated on its merits. We neither remove a critical page because payments stopped nor push a brand upwards because they started.

Who receives the commission

Every affiliate payment goes to Ostreline Content Limited, the company that publishes Gamblers United (World Trade Center, 6 Bayside Road, Gibraltar GX11 1AA). Questions about this page or about a particular link: [email protected].