Affiliate Disclosure
JeetCity Casino is a free site for readers and is funded entirely through affiliate commissions paid by online casinos. This page explains exactly how that works, what it means for you as a reader, and the firewall we have in place to keep reviews honest. We have written it deliberately plain because affiliate disclosures hidden in legalese are a way of disclosing nothing.
How we make money
The site is free to use, with no subscription, no paywall, and no ad units. Reading reviews and articles costs you nothing. Behind that, the operating costs (hosting, testing budgets, editorial time, fact-checking) are paid for by affiliate income.
It works like this. Most pages on the site contain links to online casinos, marked with phrases like Visit Casino, Claim Bonus, or Play Now, or built into review headers. When you click one of those links, the destination operator (or the affiliate network running its referral program) records that the referral came from JeetCity Casino. If you go on to register an account, deposit, and meet whatever activation threshold the operator's program defines, the operator pays JeetCity Casino a commission.
Two commission models exist in iGaming affiliate marketing, and we work with both depending on the operator. CPA (cost per acquisition) is a one-off payment for each new player who registers and meets a defined first-deposit threshold (commonly $20 or higher). Revenue share is an ongoing percentage of the operator's net gaming revenue from the player, paid for as long as the player stays active. Some operators offer a hybrid (a smaller upfront payment plus a smaller ongoing share). The choice between these is a commercial detail negotiated with each operator, and it does not affect any aspect of how we cover them.
The key point: clicking through an affiliate link costs you nothing extra. The bonus you receive at the casino is the same bonus you would get if you went there directly. The terms, wagering requirements, withdrawal limits, account experience: all identical. The casino pays the commission out of its own marketing budget. You pay nothing on top.
Does this influence what we write?
An honest answer requires some detail.
Briefly: no, affiliate relationships do not change the rating we give a casino, the conclusions of a review, or our recommendations. We rate every casino by the same eight-criterion methodology in How We Rate, scored on the actual results of the testing process in How We Test. The presence or absence of a partnership with the operator is irrelevant to the score, because the score is computed before any commercial conversation takes place.
That said, there is an inevitable structural pressure inside any affiliate model, and you should know about it. The most lucrative operators commercially are sometimes the ones whose offers look generous on paper. Reviewers under commercial pressure can drift into emphasising the upside and quietly dropping the downside. We work against that drift by separating the people who write reviews from the people who handle commercial conversations, and by publishing our scoring methodology openly so any reader can check whether the rating matches the testing.
Practical examples of how this plays out. We have rated commercial partners below 7/10 because the testing supported that score, and we have published reviews that openly criticise wagering terms, payout speeds, or support responsiveness at operators who pay us commission. We have walked away from commercial conversations where the operator made a positive review a precondition. We have featured non-partner operators when the testing showed they deserved coverage. The relevant standards are documented in Editorial Policy.
If you ever read a review on this site that feels like it is downplaying a real problem to protect a relationship, write to [email protected]. We take that kind of feedback seriously and we have rewritten reviews on the strength of it before.
How to spot an affiliate link
On JeetCity Casino, almost every link that takes you off-site to a casino is an affiliate link. The exceptions are links to regulators (ACMA, MGA, UKGC), responsible-gambling organisations (Gambling Help Online, BetStop, Lifeline), independent review aggregators (AskGamblers, Casino Guru), payment-method documentation, and any other resource referenced for editorial purposes. Those are not monetised.
You can identify an affiliate link technically too. Affiliate links typically contain query parameters in the URL like ?btag=, ?affid=, ?clickid=, or pass through a tracking subdomain before redirecting to the operator. The cookie set by the click is documented in our Cookie Policy. None of this is hidden, and you are free to navigate to any operator directly through your browser address bar if you would prefer not to use our links.
What we promise readers
The commitments below are the ones that make the affiliate model defensible. We hold ourselves to all of them.
Authorship. Every review carries the name of the reviewer who tested the operator, with a link to that reviewer's full bio. The lead writer for the site is Sienna Marsh; her credentials and testing approach are public.
Methodology. The scoring system is published in detail in How We Rate, including the eight weighted criteria and the formula that produces the final score. Anyone can check whether a published rating is internally consistent with the criteria as stated.
Testing. Reviews are based on real testing, documented in How We Test. We deposit our own money, run through bonus terms, request withdrawals, and time support responses. We do not write reviews from press releases, and we do not write reviews of operators we have not personally tested.
Updates. Reviews are revisited every three to six months, and earlier when conditions change. The date on each review tells you when it was last verified. A casino that gets worse after an initial test does not get to keep its old rating just because we have not yet revisited.
Critical coverage. When a casino does something poorly, we say so plainly. The cons section of every review is a real cons section, with specific, actionable criticism. If a casino has an open dispute history we know about, we mention it.
Non-partner coverage. Casinos we do not have a commercial relationship with can still appear in our reviews and lists. Coverage decisions are made on editorial grounds first; commercial relationships, where they exist, follow editorial decisions, not the other way around.
Regulatory framework for this disclosure
This disclosure is published to comply with the regulatory and best-practice frameworks that apply to affiliate-funded content. The relevant ones include the Australian Consumer Law (Schedule 2 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010), which prohibits misleading or deceptive conduct in trade and treats undisclosed commercial relationships as a form of deception; the FTC Endorsement Guides in the United States, which apply to any affiliate site reaching US readers; the EU Unfair Commercial Practices Directive (2005/29/EC), which sets the same baseline for European visitors; and the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) rules in the United Kingdom on disclosure of paid commercial content.
The ACMA does not directly regulate affiliate websites in Australia (those rules apply to operators), but reviewing sites that mislead readers about the nature of their content can fall within Australian Consumer Law. We aim to be ahead of any of these standards rather than minimally compliant with them.
What this disclosure does not cover
This page is about our affiliate model. It is not a privacy policy (see Privacy Policy), not a cookie inventory (see Cookie Policy), and not the editorial process itself (see Editorial Policy). Together, those four documents explain the full picture of how the site operates, what data we handle, how reviews are made, and how we are paid.
If anything in this disclosure is unclear or you want more detail on a specific point, write to [email protected]. We answer questions about our funding model openly because the model only works long-term if readers trust it.