Affiliate Disclosure

1. How we make money

Casino Master is funded by affiliate commissions. When you click a link to a casino operator from this site and subsequently register and deposit, the operator pays us a commission. The amount we earn does not change the price you pay; you do not pay more by clicking through this site.

2. What this means for the content

Most operator reviews on this site contain affiliate links. We mark these links with the standard rel="sponsored" attribute and treat the relationship as commercial. This is the case across the online casino review industry, but we mention it here explicitly.

3. Editorial rank vs. paid placement

There are two distinct ways an operator can appear on this site.

• Editorial rank. This is the Master's hand-audited ranking. An operator earns an editorial rank by passing the test cycle described in The Master's Code. No payment can buy an editorial rank, raise an editorial rank, or remove a negative point from a review. Editorial rank is what determines the order on the Hall of Casinos and other ranked pages.
• Paid placement. Operators may purchase visibility on the site — for example, a featured banner, a sponsored tile, or a dedicated promotional slot. Every paid placement is visibly tagged as "Sponsored" and is never inserted into the editorial top three. Paid placements do not influence the editorial review.

The short version: pay-to-rank is disclosed; editorial rank is sacred.

4. Why we trust this separation

It is fair to ask why a site earning commission from operators can be trusted to rank them honestly. Two answers.

First, the editorial methodology is published. Any reader can read the Code, repeat the tests on their own bankroll, and check whether the rankings match the measurements. We have set this up because we want to be checkable.

Second, our long-term commercial interest is aligned with editorial honesty. A reader who finds our reviews accurate returns and recommends us; a reader who finds our reviews bought walks away and warns others. We have been building this registry since 2009. We are not optimising for next quarter.

5. What we receive from operators

We may receive: affiliate commissions for sign-ups and deposits; payment for clearly tagged sponsored placements; occasional invitations to operator launch events or press briefings. Where the value of any non-monetary hospitality exceeds nominal levels, it is recorded internally and, where it could colour a review, disclosed in the relevant review.

6. What we do not accept

• Payment to remove a negative review or a negative point from a review.
• Payment to demote a competing operator.
• Payment to artificially inflate a measurement (e.g. publish a faster withdrawal time than was measured).
• Payment to publish content that frames gambling losses as the player's character flaw.

7. Operators that have not paid us

Many operators on this site have no commercial relationship with Casino Master. They appear because the Master tested them and they earned an editorial rank. Some operators on this site have repeatedly tried to purchase a higher rank and been refused. We do not publish those conversations, but they have happened.

8. Reader rights

If you believe a review on this site is biased by a commercial relationship that has not been disclosed, write to us at salon@casinomaster.cc. We will investigate and either correct the review or publish our reasoning for why no correction is warranted. We have done this before and will do it again.

9. Contact

Questions about this disclosure may be sent to legal@casinomaster.cc. Operator inquiries about advertising should be sent to operators@casinomaster.cc.