Affiliate Disclosure

The honest money question

Most affiliate disclosures are written to be skimmed and forgotten. We'd rather you actually read this one, because it answers the fair question every reader should put to a review site: "How do you make your money, and does it bend what you tell me?" The honest answer is that we earn commissions from some of the casinos we link to, and no, that doesn't bend our reviews. The rest of this page is simply us showing our working.

What an affiliate link really is

An affiliate link is just an ordinary link with a tag on the end that says "this visitor came from Casino Claude." When you click a "Visit Casino" or "Claim Bonus" button on our site, that tag travels with you to the operator. If you then open an account, the casino's software matches you back to us, and that's how they know to credit the referral. There's no extra form to complete, no code to enter, and nothing different about the page you land on versus typing the address in yourself.

The flow really is this simple, and it runs left to right:

So the player, Casino Claude and the casino each play a part, but only two of them ever exchange money: the casino pays us. You're never part of that transaction. The commission comes from the operator's advertising spend, the same pot it would otherwise pour into a TV spot, a billboard or a shirt sponsorship, not from your balance.

How Casino Claude keeps the lights on

We don't charge a subscription, we don't sell your email, and we don't bury the site under pop-up ads for things nobody wants. Casino Claude runs almost entirely on affiliate commissions. When a casino agrees to work with us, it pays us for players we send who go on to register and, usually, make a first deposit. If nobody clicks through and plays, we earn nothing, which is a powerful reason to point you only toward places people genuinely enjoy and return to.

That model quietly shapes how we think. A quick, misleading tip might earn a single deposit, but if the casino pays slowly or slips unfair terms into its bonus, you won't stick around, and neither will the trust you placed in us. Our income depends on you having a good enough experience to keep coming back, so our interests and yours line up far more closely than the word "advertising" usually implies. We're paid to send you somewhere good, not just anywhere.

Does any of this cost you? No.

This is the part people worry about, so let's be blunt: clicking an affiliate link on Casino Claude costs you nothing. Not a cent, not a hidden fee, not a worse exchange rate. You pay exactly what you'd pay if you'd typed the casino's address into your browser yourself.

If anything, it can work in your favour. Because we send operators a steady stream of players, they sometimes hand our readers an exclusive or enhanced welcome offer, a bigger match, extra spins, or lower wagering than the public deal. When that happens, we'll say so plainly, right beside the offer. But even with no special arrangement in place, the promise holds: same price, same terms, same casino, whether you arrive through our link or not. And if we ever found a case where our link left you worse off, we'd drop it.

How affiliate deals actually pay out

Affiliate deals in this industry come in a few standard shapes. None of them changes your price, but it's only fair that you understand them, so here's each one in plain terms, along with what it means for you.

Notice the thread running through every row: your cost is identical in all of them. The only thing that changes is how and when the operator pays us. And even our least flattering incentive, take a one-off fee and move on, still can't survive a bad recommendation, because a casino nobody trusts sends us no players in the first place.

The wall between money and reviews

Here's the line we won't cross: a commercial deal decides whether we can earn from a casino, never what we say about it. The review and the ranking are written first, straight from testing. Only then does the commercial side work out whether there's a deal to be had at all. If an operator offered us double the commission for a softer verdict, the answer is no, and it always has been.

Our rankings come from a boring, repeatable process, not from a rate card. We open real accounts with our own money, deposit, play through the games, request a withdrawal and time exactly how long the cash takes to land. We read the bonus terms line by line, the wagering, the game weighting, the max cashout, the clauses built to trip you up, and we note where support was helpful or hopeless. A casino that pays us handsomely but pays you slowly gets marked down for the slow payout, plainly, in writing.

It also means we keep low-scoring casinos on the site. We don't quietly delete the ones that let us down, and we don't hide a poor score to protect a relationship. If an operator is sitting on withdrawals, shifting the goalposts on bonuses or leaning on predatory terms, we'll say so, even if it would happily pay to be recommended, and even if warning you off leaves money on the table. A warning you can trust is worth far more to us than a commission we'd be ashamed of.

What moves a ranking, and what never could

To make that line concrete, here's what genuinely feeds into a casino's position on Casino Claude, set against the things that have no effect at all, however much anyone might wish otherwise.

How we decide who makes the cut

Before a casino is even eligible for a full review, it has to clear a baseline. These are non-negotiable minimums, and a brand that fails any single one of them gets no recommendation from us, whatever it happens to be offering.

Only once a casino clears that baseline do we run the full hands-on review, and only casinos we'd happily recommend to a friend make it into the ranked lists. Everything else is either left off altogether or written up as a cautionary tale.

Transparency and the rules we follow

Being upfront about affiliate relationships isn't just good manners, in most of the markets we cover it's the law, and we're glad it is. Advertising and consumer-protection regulators expect anyone who profits from a recommendation to disclose it clearly, which is exactly what this page is for.

In the United States, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) tells publishers to disclose material connections, such as being paid a commission, in plain, hard-to-miss language. In the United Kingdom, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) and the CAP Code require ads and paid-for content to be obviously identifiable, so that affiliate links are flagged rather than dressed up as neutral advice. Across the European Union, consumer-protection rules like the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive point in the same direction: don't present paid promotion as though it were impartial.

We aim to honour the spirit of all of these, not just tick a box. What we won't do is claim badges, memberships or certifications we can't back up. If we say a casino is licensed, it's because we checked the regulator's register ourselves. If we describe our own standards, we're describing what we actually do, not borrowing someone else's seal of approval to look more official than we are.

Play for fun, and only what you can afford

No disclosure on this page matters more than this one. Everything on Casino Claude is aimed at adults who choose to gamble for entertainment, with money they can comfortably afford to lose. If a bonus or a "top pick" ever tempts you past that line, please step back, the reviews will still be here tomorrow, and no welcome offer is ever worth chasing.

Checking your local law is on you

We publish guides for several countries, and online gambling law varies enormously between them, and sometimes between regions within a single country. A casino that's perfectly legal for a player in one market may not be licensed to accept players from another, and these rules shift more often than any static page could promise to track.

So the job of checking the law where you live rests with you. Before you deposit anywhere, make sure online gambling is legal in your jurisdiction, that you meet the minimum age, and that the casino is actually permitted to serve players from your country. Our content is general information and opinion, it isn't legal advice, and it can't account for your personal circumstances.

Questions about this disclosure

If anything here is unclear, or you think we've mislabelled a link or missed a disclosure, we want to know, honest feedback is what keeps this page honest. You can reach the team through our contact page, and we read every message that arrives.

We review this disclosure from time to time, and whenever our commercial arrangements or the rules around them change, so it always reflects how the site genuinely works.

Last updated: 21 July 2026.

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