How Captain Slot makes money

What an affiliate link is

An affiliate link is an ordinary link with an identifier attached. When you follow one, the operator's site records which partner sent you — usually through a parameter in the address and a cookie set by the operator or by the network between us. If you then register, that registration is attributed to us and a payment follows.

The mechanism sits on the operator's side, not ours: we do not see your account, your deposits or your play. What reaches us is a count. Every affiliate link on this site is marked rel="nofollow sponsored", so a search engine is told the same thing you are.

What that means for your data is in our privacy policy and cookie policy.

What we are paid

Three shapes, and different operators use different ones. CPA is a one-off fee for a qualifying signup. Revenue share is a percentage of what the operator earns from the players we send, paid for as long as the arrangement runs. Hybrid is a smaller one-off fee plus a smaller share.

We are not publishing the rates. Not because they are embarrassing, but because a rate printed on a page and a rate in a contract drift apart within a quarter, and a stale figure presented as current is worse than no figure. What matters when you read a review is not the size of the payment but what it can and cannot move, and that is the next section.

Which casinos we have a commercial relationship with

All of them. Every operator covered on this site is a commercial partner, and there is currently none here that is not. We would rather write that sentence than have you work it out.

None of them holds a licence from the regulator of any of the markets above. That is a fact about the operators rather than a verdict from us, it is stated on every review, and it is why none of them is described anywhere on this site as safe, trusted or recommended. The rule that produces that is on the method page.

What the money changes, and what it does not

It decides who is here. We do not cover the whole market. We cover the operators we have an agreement with, which means the absence of a brand from this site says nothing about that brand.

It influences the order. Where two brands are otherwise level, commercial terms can decide which is listed first. We would rather admit that than claim a purity this industry does not have.

It does not decide the safety tier. The tier is read off public registers and published warnings, and no payment changes what a register says.

It does not decide the experience score. The weights and the scale anchors are published, the inputs are the operator's own documents, and the arithmetic is identical for every brand.

It does not decide whether a warning is published. If a regulator or an industry body has published something about an operator we are paid by, it goes in the review.

What we never do

• We do not sell scores, tiers or nominations.
• We do not remove a negative finding because an operator asks us to.
• We do not publish text written by an operator or by its agency.
• We do not remove or soften a regulator warning.
• We do not sell links, and we do not change a link's attributes for a fee.
• We do not run affiliate links, operator buttons or rating figures on this page or on our safer gambling pages.

If you think a review reads like an advertisement

Tell us, and quote the sentence. We will either back it up with a source or change it, and if we change it the correction goes into the change log with its date. Write through the contact page; we answer within two working days.

The same route is open to an operator who thinks a figure is wrong, and the rule is the same in both directions: a claim moves when a verifiable source is supplied, not because somebody dislikes the conclusion.

18+ and responsible gambling

The legal gambling age is 18 in the Netherlands, France, Germany, Spain and Italy, and 21 in Greece. We apply the higher threshold across the site. Gambling costs money and carries a risk of harm. Free, confidential help in all six countries →