Editorial policy
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This page is the standard we hold ourselves to. It is written down so that it can be pointed at when we fall short of it.
Everything is a record before it is an opinion
The core of this site is a register: which operators are registered with the regulator in a given market, which of them are actually open to players, and when we last checked. Those are matters of fact, and we treat them as such.
Where we do express a judgement — that one withdrawal window is better than another, that one market is more restrictive than another — it is written as a judgement, in language a reader can disagree with, and it sits next to the figures it was formed from.
Where facts come from
A registration status comes from the regulator's own published register, and from nowhere else. Not from the operator's press release, not from another affiliate site, not from a search result.
An operational fact — payout windows, game counts, payment methods, responsible-gambling tooling — comes from the operator's own published terms or from the product itself, and carries the date it was checked.
Anything we have not verified is shown as unverified. It is never left blank in a way that reads as a zero, and it is never filled in with a plausible guess. In every sorted list, unverified values sort last rather than being treated as the best or the worst case.
What we will not publish
We do not publish bonus offers, free-spin counts, promotional codes or welcome-offer wording. Marketing an inducement to gamble is regulated conduct in the markets we cover, and the operator carries the liability for what its marketing partners say. We would rather be less useful to somebody hunting a promotion than be the reason an operator is sanctioned.
We do not publish star ratings or scores out of ten. A single number implies a measurement we have not made, and it collapses facts a reader should weigh differently depending on what they care about.
We do not publish invented experience. We do not claim to have played at a site, tested a withdrawal, or spoken to a support agent unless that is true and dated.
We do not publish social proof as persuasion — no counters of how many people signed up, no urgency, no countdown.
We do not publish anything aimed at, or attractive to, people below the legal age in the market it is written for.
Corrections
We get things wrong. When we do, the page is corrected and the correction is dated. A status change is added to the record rather than quietly overwriting what was there before, so the previous state remains readable.
If a correction is material — if it would have changed what a reader did — it is stated on the page, not buried.
Independence from commercial arrangements
Some operators pay us commission. That relationship has no bearing on whether a company appears in the register, where it appears, or what is written about it. The full arrangement is described in How we make money.
The people who write and check the register are not paid on the basis of which operators readers choose.
Who writes this
Every page is written and checked by named people. The team page lists who they are and what they are responsible for.