Affiliate Disclosure
This site is funded through affiliate partnerships, including the partnership with Spinaud Casino. The page below sets out exactly how that works, what it costs you, and the rules that keep the funding model from spilling into editorial work. The broader context for the site as a whole sits on the About page, while the flagship operator review is the Spinaud Casino homepage. If you have already read disclosure pages on other review sites and want only the differences, the short version sits at the bottom.
1. How this site is paid
When a reader clicks an affiliate link on this site and creates an account on Spinaud, the site may receive a commission. The commission is paid by Spinaud out of its own marketing budget, not by the player. It does not raise any cost on the operator's platform, change deposit minimums, or shave anything off your welcome bonus. Two structures are common across the industry, and this site works with both depending on the partnership: a fixed CPA (cost-per-acquisition) paid once when a qualifying account is created, and a revenue-share arrangement under which a small percentage of Spinaud's net gaming revenue from that account is returned over time. The mechanics are invisible to the reader; the only practical effect is that Spinaud knows, when an account is created, that the click came from this site.
2. What it costs you
Nothing. Affiliate links cost the reader exactly the same as direct links. The Spinaud welcome match of 120% up to AUD 900 plus 90 free spins is identical whether you arrive through an affiliate link, a Google ad, or by keying the brand's domain directly. The AUD 20-30 qualifying deposit needed to engage the welcome match stays unchanged. Withdrawal speeds via PayID, e-wallets and crypto, KYC requirements, and the rotating daily 12% reload / 7% subsequent boost / weekly cashback set remain the same. If anything, partnership pages occasionally carry an exclusive welcome offer that runs slightly better than the default. When that happens we say so plainly in the review.
3. Why this is allowed to be neutral
The straight answer is that the maths of reputation does the work. A review site only lasts in this niche by being accurate on which operators are worth signing up to; pump the score on Spinaud or any other partner and within a few months the readers who drive the traffic — and the commissions with it — will simply move to another reviewer. Long-term commercial logic on an affiliate site converges with editorial logic: tell the truth about which operators are decent and which are not. Every review check is applied the same way to every operator, partnership or not. Partner operators have been rated six and below on this site; brands with no commercial tie have been rated eight and above.
4. What "not influencing the review" means in practice
Three concrete rules. First, partnership status feeds nothing into the score: review checks are applied against observed performance, full stop. Second, partnership status does not unlock favourable framing: where Spinaud has a problem (the 40x wagering on the welcome bonus, the AUD 30 minimum cashout floor on the $30 register credit, card and direct bank-transfer support that varies day to day, KYC reviews that occasionally stretch beyond the published 24-72 hours, the current Casino Guru Safety Index reading of 4.9 out of 10), the problem shows up in the review under the relevant section. Third, the operator does not pre-approve content. We do not send drafts for sign-off. Spinaud sees the review for the first time when it goes live, the same as everyone else.
Two further rules cover factual updates. If Spinaud gets in touch to flag a factual error in the review, we check the claim, correct it if it is wrong, and add a dated note at the foot of the review describing what was changed. We do this whether or not the operator is a partner. If Spinaud argues that a low score is "unfair" without identifying a factual error, the score stays put and we reply that the same review approach applies to every operator equally.
5. Recognising affiliate links
Every outbound link from this site to Spinaud carries the rel="nofollow noopener" attribute, which is the standard signal to search engines that the link is part of a commercial relationship. The link itself usually points to a tracking redirect at /go on this domain. That redirect lets us count clicks for our own analytics before forwarding the user to the Spinaud site. The user's browser ends up at the operator's site exactly as it would from a direct link; nothing is added to the operator's URL on the user's side. Some links on this site to regulators, helplines, news outlets, and game studios are not affiliate links. Those carry rel="noopener noreferrer" only.
6. Compliance with disclosure rules
Two domestic regimes are the binding ones here: the Australian Consumer Law's prohibition on misleading trade conduct, and the ACCC's published guidance on undisclosed influencer marketing. Together they demand that any affiliate relationship be signalled with enough clarity for an ordinary reader to grasp the commercial side of the link. Site-wide disclosure happens on this very page; layered on top, an inline disclosure line is printed immediately above the first affiliate call-to-action on the Spinaud review so the relationship registers without anyone needing to hunt for it in the footer. International visitors should keep in mind that similar duties exist in their own jurisdictions — the FTC in the US and the CMA in the UK being the clearest parallels.
7. Commitments to readers
The obligations this site signs up to under the affiliate model boil down to a short list. Disclosure is front-and-centre rather than buried. The Spinaud review goes through the same procedure used on every other operator covered. Errors are fixed within a published timeline. Spinaud sees no draft before publication. Affiliate status is marked up in the HTML so any technically inclined reader can verify it for themselves. The full editorial workflow — fact-checking, source standards, correction handling — is laid out on the Editorial Policy page. Anything that looks like a breach of the rules above can be flagged through the Contact page, and substantive complaints are entered against the Spinaud review in our records.
8. Wider context for readers
Three things sit alongside this disclosure. The player-protection commitments built into every operator score are explained on the Responsible Gambling page. Privacy practices that govern any data collected from you while reading this site sit on the Privacy Policy page, with the technical detail of cookies and similar storage on the Cookie Policy page. The full menu of what we cover is the Spinaud Casino homepage and its onward links.