Affiliate disclosure

The plain-English version

Casino Catalog is reader-supported. When you click a "Play Now", "Visit", or "Claim offer" button and sign up or deposit at a casino, that casino may pay us a commission. It costs you nothing — commissions come from the casino's marketing budget, and any bonus you receive is the same one you'd get arriving directly (or better, where we've negotiated an exclusive, which is labeled).

How the links work

Money links route through /go/{casino} redirects markedrel="sponsored nofollow" and excluded from search indexing. That structure exists for transparency: you can always see exactly which links are commercial (every/go/ link is), and search engines are told the same thing.

What money cannot buy here

• A ranking. Ranked lists sort by CC Index score in the site's code. There is no manual override to sell.
• A score. Scores follow the public methodology; commission rates appear nowhere in the scoring data.
• Silence. Cons are mandatory in every review, including for the casinos that pay us most.
• A listing. Casinos enter the index by passing verification, not by having an affiliate program. Some indexed casinos pay us nothing.

What money can buy — and how it's labeled

Clearly-marked sponsored placements: boxed slots labeled "Sponsored", visually separate from ranked lists and never numbered. If you ever see a sponsored unit that could be mistaken for a ranking position, that's a bug in our independence — report it.

The conflict, stated honestly

An affiliate site has an inherent tension: we earn when you sign up, and we're the ones telling you where to sign up. Our answer is structure over promises — public weights, dated facts, code-enforced sort order, quarantined sponsorships — plus one behavioral commitment: when accuracy and revenue conflict, accuracy wins and the correction gets a date stamp. Judge us on the visible record.