Affiliate Disclosure

Money, honestly

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 ask a review site: "How do you make 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, it doesn't bend our reviews. The rest of this page is just us showing our working.

What an affiliate link actually is

An affiliate link is just a normal 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 rides along with you to the operator. If you go on to 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 fill in, no code to enter, and nothing different about the page you land on compared with typing the address in yourself.

The flow is genuinely 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 are never in that transaction. The commission comes out of the operator's advertising spend, the same pot they'd otherwise hand to a TV spot, a billboard or a shirt sponsorship, not out of your balance.

How Casino Claude makes money

We don't charge you a subscription, we don't sell your email, and we don't plaster the site with pop-up ads for things nobody wants. Casino Claude is funded almost entirely by affiliate commissions. When a casino agrees to work with us, they pay us for players we send who go on to register and, usually, make a first deposit. If nobody clicks through and plays, we don't earn, which is a strong incentive to only point you toward places people genuinely enjoy and come back to.

That model quietly shapes how we think. A quick, misleading recommendation might earn a single deposit, but if the casino is slow to pay or hides unfair terms in 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 using the site, so our interests and yours line up more closely than the word "advertising" usually suggests. We're paid to point you somewhere good, not to point you just anywhere.

Does it cost you anything? 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 had 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 give 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 next to the offer. But even where there's no special arrangement, the promise holds: same price, same terms, same casino, whether you arrive through our link or not. If we ever found a case where our link left you worse off, we'd drop it.

The ways affiliates get paid

Affiliate deals in this industry come in a few standard shapes. None of them change your price, but it's fair that you understand them, so here is each one in plain terms, and 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 at all.

Where the money stops and the reviews begin

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, from testing. The commercial side then works 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 how long the cash actually takes to land. We read the bonus terms line by line, the wagering, the game weighting, the max cashout, the clauses written to trip you up, and we log 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.

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

What moves a ranking, and what can't

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 no matter how much anyone would like them to.

How we decide who gets featured

Before a casino is even eligible for a full review, it has to clear a floor. These are non-negotiable minimums, and a brand that fails any one of them doesn't get a recommendation from us, regardless of what it's offering.

Only after a casino clears that floor do we run the full hands-on review, and only casinos we'd be comfortable recommending to a friend make it into the ranked lists. Everything else is either left off entirely or written up as a cautionary tale.

Transparency and the rules we work under

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

We aim to meet 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. 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 if you can afford to

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 worth chasing.

Local law is your call to check

We publish guides for several countries, and online gambling law differs enormously between them, and sometimes between regions inside the same 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 change more often than any static page can promise to track.

So the responsibility to check the law where you live sits 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 allowed to serve players from your country. Our content is information and opinion for general use, it isn't legal advice, and it can't account for your personal circumstances.

Questions about this policy

If anything here is unclear, or you think we've labelled a link wrongly or missed a disclosure, we want to know, honest feedback is how this page stays honest. You can reach the team through our contact page, and we read every message that comes in.

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

Last updated: 21 July 2026.

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