Reading Top10 Gambling costs you nothing; the bill is paid by casinos, which reward us when someone joins via our buttons. Below: who collects that money, what kinds of deals exist, and how much influence they are allowed over our pages.
In three sentences
Casino buttons on this site are partner links. Join a casino through one and it may send us a commission. Commission can decide which partners are eligible for a list and where they sit in it, but it never purchases a rating, a gentler verdict or a claim we cannot support.
Where the money goes
Every partner contract is signed and billed by Galleonmere Content Limited, 57-63 Line Wall Road, Gibraltar GX11 1AA, the publisher of Top10 Gambling. Our writers receive no bonus per registration, and no casino group owns any part of the site.
Three shapes a deal can take
- Flat fee per first-time depositor
- A set sum arrives after a reader we sent registers and makes an initial deposit above the operator's minimum. After that, the player generates nothing further for us.
- Share of net revenue
- Over months or years the operator passes us a percentage of the net amount it retains from referred players. Bluntly, we make more when those players lose. That conflict of interest is real, and it is the chief reason we publish this page.
- Hybrid deals and placement fees
- Some contracts blend the two models; a handful add a fixed payment for a highlighted position on one list for an agreed term.
Individual commission rates stay private: operators treat them as confidential, and the contracts forbid sharing them.
What money can and cannot move
Commercial ties influence which brands make a list and in what order, as our rating method page states openly. They have no say over the facts we publish about a casino: its stated licence, the playthrough on its bonus, its withdrawal caps, its payment options or the drawbacks our reviewers found. When a partner tightens its terms, the review gets tougher.
Keeping the deal desk away from the review desk
Whoever negotiates a partner contract does not write or score that casino's review. Reviewers rely on the casino's published terms, a test account and our scoring sheet; the commission figure never reaches them, and nobody asks them to nudge a rating upward before a renewal. When a review is reopened, the trigger is a change on the casino's side, such as a new bonus, a slower payout or a lost licence, never a change in what the casino pays us.
A deal is not a lifetime pass
A partner comes off our lists if withdrawal complaints pile up, if its bonus policy grows a clause letting it void winnings on vague grounds, or if it stops serving Canadian players. Losing that income is part of our bargain with readers.
If your experience differs from our review
Commission does not follow you into the casino. If a partner stalls a payout, closes your account or refuses a bonus on a technicality, tell us. We cannot step into your dispute, but reader reports shape the next check of that review and can push a brand down the list or off it.
How to recognise a partner link
Partner links run through /go/ addresses and carry the sponsored attribute that search engines read. You will mostly meet them on buttons labelled “Visit casino” or “Claim bonus”. Links pointing at regulators, support lines and news outlets are plain links with no commission behind them.
Cookies involved in a referral
Two first-party cookies ride along on every page: mz_vid (an anonymous visitor tag, kept twelve months) and mz_src (the visit's origin, kept thirty days). Following any /go/ link plants mozbiz_session and XSRF-TOKEN as well, for around twenty hours, so the hand-off to the casino completes securely. From the moment you land on the casino, its cookies and its privacy notice apply instead of ours. Our privacy and cookie policy has the full list.
Ontario and the other provinces
Partner promotions here are not pitched at readers sitting in Ontario, where only brands registered through iGaming Ontario may offer online casino games and bonus advertising is heavily restricted. Across the rest of Canada, many partners operate under licences granted outside the country; that licence is the operator's own and does not amount to approval by your province.
No sponsored articles
We sell no advertorials, no banner slots and no paid mentions inside news items. Should that ever change, any paid piece will carry an advertising label in its first line rather than in a footnote.
Going direct is always an option
Any casino reviewed here can be visited without our link, simply by entering its web address yourself. You pay nothing extra either way, and the welcome deal is usually identical; now and then a partner offers our readers an exclusive code, and the review states it clearly when that happens.
Raising a concern
If a page reads as though it was paid for rather than earned, email [email protected] with the address of that page. Post can be sent to Galleonmere Content Limited, 57-63 Line Wall Road, Gibraltar GX11 1AA. The broader limits of our promises are described in the disclaimer.