Affiliate Disclosure
This site is funded through affiliate partnerships, including the partnership with Spin Samurai Casino. The page below sets out exactly how that works, what it costs you, and the rules that keep the funding model from spilling into editorial work. The broader context for the site as a whole sits on the About page, while the flagship operator review is the Spin Samurai Casino homepage. If you have already read disclosure pages on other review sites and want only the differences, the short version sits at the bottom.
1. How this site is paid
When a reader clicks an affiliate link on this site and creates an account on Spin Samurai, the site may receive a commission. The commission is paid by Spin Samurai out of its own marketing budget, not by the player. It does not raise any cost on the operator's platform, change deposit minimums, or shave anything off 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 Spin Samurai's net gaming revenue from that account is returned over time. The mechanics are invisible to the reader; the only practical effect is that Spin Samurai 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 Spin Samurai welcome ladder of up to AU$5,000 plus 150 free spins across the first three deposits is identical whether you arrive through an affiliate link, a Google ad, or by keying the brand's domain directly. The A$15-20 qualifying deposit needed to engage the welcome match remains unchanged. Withdrawal speeds via PayID and crypto, KYC requirements and the rotating Friday reload / Daily Spin Wheel / weekly tournament set are unchanged. If anything, partnership pages occasionally carry an exclusive welcome offer that runs slightly better than the default. When that happens we say so plainly 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 Spin Samurai or any other partner, and within a few months the audience driving traffic (and therefore 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 apply identically to every operator covered, 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 feeds nothing into the score: review checks are applied against observed performance, full stop. Second, partnership status does not unlock favourable framing: where Spin Samurai has a problem (the 45x wagering on the welcome bonus, free spins released in time-restricted tranches across three to five days, table games not contributing toward VIP Loyalty Point progress, withdrawals required to match the deposit method and currency, KYC reviews that occasionally stretch beyond the published 24-72 hours), the problem shows up in the review under the relevant section. Third, the operator does not pre-approve content. We do not send drafts for sign-off. Spin Samurai sees the review for the first time when it goes live, the same as everyone else.
Two further rules cover factual updates. If Spin Samurai gets in touch to flag a factual error in the review, we check the claim, correct it if it is 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 Spin Samurai argues that a low score is "unfair" without identifying a factual error, the score stays put and we reply that the same review approach applies to every operator equally.
5. Recognising affiliate links
Every outbound link from this site to Spin Samurai 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 Spin Samurai 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 outlets, 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; on top of that, the Spin Samurai review page carries an inline disclosure note above the first affiliate CTA so the relationship is visible without scrolling to the footer. International readers should also note 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 under this funding model are short. Disclosure is up-front and visible, not buried. The Spin Samurai review follows the same approach applied to every operator covered. Errors are corrected on a published timeline. Spin Samurai does not preview content. Affiliate status is signalled in markup so technically literate readers can verify it. A full description of the editorial process (fact-checking, source standards, correction handling) lives 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 Spin Samurai review.
8. Wider context for readers
Three things 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 sit 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 Spin Samurai Casino homepage and its onward links.