Affiliate disclosure: how this site earns, and what it cannot buy

How we earn

When you open some operators' sites from a link on this site, we may receive a commission from that operator. You pay nothing extra, and the amount does not depend on what you go on to do beyond the fact of the referral.

This applies only where a commercial operator legally exists to be paid by, which in Canada means Ontario and Alberta. On the pages for the other eleven provinces and territories the operator we most often point at is the provincial lottery site, and none of those pays us anything.

What commission cannot buy

The six criteria and their weights. These are published, fixed and identical for every operator, and they were set before any operator was scored.

The ordering. Operators are ranked by total score. There is no promoted slot, no sponsored position and no arrangement to appear higher.

Whether an operator is listed. Eligibility is a compliance decision: an operator that is not registered with iGaming Ontario is removed from Ontario pages entirely rather than ranked low, because advertising it to an Ontario audience is not permitted. That rule cuts against our own commercial interest and applies anyway.

The content of a review. An unfavourable finding stays. Where a criterion scores zero because we could not locate a certificate, it reads as zero on the page of an operator we are paid by.

Where you will see this stated

On every page that carries an operator link, near the links themselves rather than only here. A disclosure buried in a legal page that a reader never opens is not a disclosure, which is the standard the United States Federal Trade Commission set and a reasonable bar regardless of jurisdiction.

Outbound operator links are marked as sponsored and do not pass search authority, which is both an honest signal and a search-engine requirement.

Why we tell you this so prominently

Because a site whose entire product is a set of safety scores has an obvious conflict of interest, and the only useful response is to describe it precisely rather than to minimise it.

The most persuasive evidence we can offer is not this page. It is that across most of Canada we recommend the government-run option that pays us nothing, that we exclude operators we could otherwise be paid for, and that our fairness criterion currently scores low even on operators we earn from because we have not yet located their certificates. Those are the places where the model costs us something.

If you would rather not use our links

Then do not. Every operator we cover can be found by searching its name, and the register entries we cite are public. Nothing on this site is behind a link you have to click, and no content changes depending on whether you do.