Casino Instant Pay is free to read, and it is paid for by casinos. Those two facts sit side by side on every page, so this disclosure spells out how the money arrives and where it stops. The longer account of our method, including the full section on who pays for the site, is on how we rate; the limits of what a guide can promise are in the legal disclaimer.
What an affiliate link is
An affiliate link is an ordinary link with a tag attached. When you follow it to a casino and open an account there, the casino’s affiliate programme can see that you came from this desk and may owe us a fee. The fee comes from the casino’s marketing budget. You pay nothing extra for it, the welcome offer is the same or better than the public one, and nothing about your account changes because of where you clicked from.
How to tell a paid link from a plain one
Every link that can earn us money starts on our own domain at a /go/ address. That is where the “Visit casino” buttons in our comparison tables point. The short hop through /go/ forwards you to the operator with the tag added; in the page code these links are marked rel="sponsored", and the cookies policy lists what is set on the way.
Everything else is unpaid: links to banks, payment companies, regulators, provincial lottery corporations, help lines, game studios and news outlets. If a link does not pass through /go/, nobody pays us for it.
Who signs the contracts
The affiliate agreements are signed by our publisher, Pelorine Online Media Limited, Leisure Island Business Centre, 23 Ocean Village Promenade, Gibraltar GX11 1AA, and every fee is paid to that company. The people who research and write the guides are not party to those agreements, do not see the rates and are paid the same whether a page sends readers to a cashier or not.
How casinos pay
Programmes are not all built the same way. Some pay a one-off sum when a new player funds an account. Others pay a share of what the casino earns from that player over time, and some mix the two. Under a revenue share, part of what a player loses can become part of our income. We say this plainly because it is the incentive every gambling site has, and it is the reason our guides lead with withdrawal facts — pending periods, verification, the route money takes back — rather than with the size of a bonus.
What a fee cannot buy
- A higher place in a comparison table or a better line in a guide.
- A shorter payout estimate, or silence about a pending period, a charge or a document request.
- Kinder wording when an operator starts delaying withdrawals or changes its terms against players — the guide is updated even if the partnership ends.
- A place in our payment tables: no Canadian bank, Interac, iDebit, InstaDebit, e-wallet or voucher brand pays us anything, and a method is judged only on what it does with your money.
Casinos that pay us nothing are measured with the same yardstick as those that do.
Exclusive offers
From time to time an operator gives us a promotion that is not on its public page. When we print one, we say that it is tied to our link and set it next to the public offer, with its wagering and any cap on cash-outs. An exclusive label is never a reason on its own to pick a casino.
Age and local law
Our guides are written for adults in Canada: 19 and over, or 18 and over in Alberta, Manitoba and Quebec. Online gambling rules are set by each province and territory; Ontario’s private operators are registered with the AGCO and iGaming Ontario. Check what applies where you live before you open an account, and keep play to money you can afford to lose. Free, confidential help is available around the clock from ConnexOntario at 1-866-531-2600, and our responsible gambling page lists support across the country.
Questions about a link
If you want to know whether a particular link earns us anything, or you think a page reads like an advertisement, send us its address through the contact form. You will get an answer, and the page will be looked at again.
Changes to this page
This disclosure is revised whenever our commercial arrangements change. The date under the headline shows the current version.