Affiliate Disclosure
This site is funded through affiliate partnerships, including the partnership with Bitstarz Casino. This page sets out exactly how that works, what it costs you, and the rules that stop the funding model from interfering with editorial work. The wider context for the site as a whole sits on the About page, while the flagship operator review is the Bitstarz Casino homepage. If you've already read disclosure pages on other review sites and want only the differences, the short version is at the end.
1. How this site is paid
When a reader clicks an affiliate link on this site and creates an account on Bitstarz, the site may receive a commission. The commission is paid by Bitstarz out of its own marketing budget, not by you. It does not raise any cost on the operator's platform, change deposit minimums, or alter 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 Bitstarz's net gaming revenue from that account is paid back over time. The mechanics are invisible to the reader; the only practical effect is that Bitstarz 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 Bitstarz four-deposit welcome package totalling up to AU$10,000 or 5 BTC plus 180 free spins is identical whether you arrive through an affiliate link, a Google ad, or by typing the brand's domain directly. The AU$20 minimum qualifying deposit is the same (AU$40 for the full 180 free spins). Crypto withdrawals averaging ~10 minutes, the 40x wagering on bonus and free-spin winnings, and the rotating Monday Reload / Wednesday Free Spins / Slot Wars promo set are unchanged. If anything, partnership pages occasionally carry an exclusive welcome offer that's slightly better than the default. When that happens we say so explicitly in the review.
3. Why this is allowed to be neutral
The honest answer is reputation arithmetic. A casino review site survives by being right about which operators are worth registering on. Inflate scores to flatter Bitstarz or any other partner, and within a few months the audience that drives traffic (and therefore drives commissions) moves to a competitor. The long-term commercial interest of an affiliate site is identical to its editorial interest: tell the truth about which operators are good and which are not. The same review checks are applied identically to every operator we cover, partner or not. We have rated partner operators at six and below, and rated operators with no commercial relationship at eight and above.
4. What "not influencing the review" means in practice
Three concrete rules. First, partnership status has no input into the score: review checks are applied against observed performance, full stop. Second, partnership status does not unlock favourable framing: where Bitstarz has a problem (Curacao oversight that isn't tier-1, the 40x wagering with only 5% contribution from table games and live casino, the AU$5 max-bet cap while a bonus is active that's easy to breach, the 24-hour use-or-lose rule on each daily free-spin batch, or KYC reviews that sometimes stretch beyond the published window), the problem appears in the review under the relevant section. Third, the operator does not pre-approve content. We do not send drafts for sign-off. Bitstarz sees the review for the first time when it goes live, the same as everyone else.
Two further rules govern factual updates. If Bitstarz gets in touch to flag a factual error in the review, we check the claim, correct it if it's 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 Bitstarz argues that a low score is "unfair" without identifying a factual error, we keep the score and reply that the same review approach applies to every operator equally.
5. Recognising affiliate links
Every outbound link from this site to Bitstarz 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 Bitstarz 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 organisations, and game studios are not affiliate links. Those carry rel="noopener noreferrer" only.
6. Compliance with disclosure rules
The relevant Australian rules are the Australian Consumer Law (which prohibits misleading conduct in trade) and the ACCC's guidance on undisclosed influencer marketing, both of which require affiliate relationships to be disclosed clearly enough that a reasonable reader understands the commercial nature of the link. This page is the global disclosure for the site; in addition, the Bitstarz review page carries an inline disclosure note above the first affiliate CTA so that the relationship is visible without scrolling to the footer. International readers should also be aware that the FTC (in the United States) and the CMA (in the United Kingdom) require similar disclosure for advertising aimed at their own residents.
7. Commitments to readers
The summary obligations this site accepts from this funding model are short. Disclosure is upfront and visible, not buried. The Bitstarz review follows the same approach we apply to every operator we cover. Errors are corrected on a published timeline. Bitstarz does not preview content. Affiliate status is signalled in markup so technically literate readers can verify it. A complete description of the editorial process (fact-checking, source standards, correction handling) is available on the Editorial Policy page. Anything that looks like a breach of these rules can be raised through the Contact page, and substantive complaints are recorded against the Bitstarz review.
8. Wider context for readers
Three points 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 are 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 Bitstarz Casino homepage and its onward links.