Affiliate Disclosure
Funding for the Jackpot City review hub comes from affiliate partnerships set up with online casino operators. The page you're reading walks through exactly how the model works, what it costs you (nothing), and the safeguards keeping the funding mechanism from bleeding into editorial output. Broader site-level context lives on the About page, and the flagship operator review is hosted at the Jackpot City Casino homepage. Readers familiar with this style of disclosure on other review sites who want only the differences can find the short version at the foot of this page.
1. How Jackpot City gets paid
When a reader clicks an affiliate link on Jackpot City and registers an account on the operator's site, this review hub may receive a commission. The commission is paid by the operator from its own marketing budget. It does not come from the reader and does not raise any cost on the operator's platform. Two structures dominate the industry, and Jackpot City uses 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 share of the operator's net gaming revenue from that account is paid back over time. The mechanics are invisible to the reader; the only practical effect is that the operator knows, at registration time, that the click originated on this site.
2. What it costs you
Nothing whatsoever. An affiliate link costs the reader exactly what a direct link costs. Bonus offers do not move. Stakes do not move. Withdrawal speeds do not move. The cost of play on the operator's site stays identical whether the visit lands via a Jackpot City link, a Google ad, or by typing the URL straight into the browser. If anything, partnership pages sometimes carry an exclusive welcome offer marginally stronger than the default. Wherever that happens, the relevant review states the fact explicitly.
3. Why this is allowed to be neutral
The honest answer is reputation arithmetic. A casino review site stays alive by being right about which operators are worth registering on. Inflate scores to flatter partner brands, and within a few months the audience that powers traffic — and therefore powers commissions — drifts to a competitor. The long-term commercial interest of an affiliate site aligns precisely with its editorial interest: tell the truth about which operators are good and which are not. The same consistent rating framework applies identically to every operator we cover, partner or not. We have rated partner operators at six and below, and rated operators with no commercial tie at eight and above.
4. What "not influencing the review" means in practice
Three concrete rules apply. Rule one — partnership status feeds nothing into the score; the eight criteria are scored against observed performance only, with no exception. Rule two — partnership status does not unlock favourable framing; if a partner operator has a problem (slow withdrawals, opaque bonus terms, a thin live-dealer catalogue), that problem ends up in the review under the matching criterion. Rule three — operators do not pre-approve content. Drafts are never sent for sign-off. Operators first see Jackpot City content at the moment it goes live, in the same way every other reader does.
A further pair of rules covers factual updates. Where an operator gets in touch to flag a factual error in a Jackpot City review, we verify the claim, correct it where it is wrong, and append a dated note at the foot of the review describing the change. This procedure runs identically whether the operator is a partner or not. Where an operator instead writes in to argue that a low score is "unfair" without identifying a specific factual error, the score remains in place and the response is simply that the rating methodology applies equally to every operator on the hub.
5. Recognising affiliate links
Outbound operator destinations from this review hub uniformly carry the rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" marker — the standard search-engine convention indicating a commercial relationship sits behind the link. The hyperlink itself typically resolves through a tracking redirect at /go hosted on this domain. That hop allows us to count clicks for our own analytics before passing the visitor onward to the operator. From the browser's point of view, you arrive at exactly the same place you would via a direct hyperlink; no extra parameters get tacked onto the operator's URL on the user's side. Various other outbound links — pointing to regulators, helplines, news organisations, or game studios — are not commercial in nature. Those instead carry just rel="noreferrer noopener".
6. Compliance with disclosure rules
The UK rules that matter here are the Consumer Rights Act 2015, which outlaws misleading commercial practices, alongside CMA and ASA guidance on undisclosed affiliate marketing — both of which require affiliate relationships to be disclosed clearly enough that a reasonable reader understands the commercial character of the link. This page functions as the site-wide disclosure for Jackpot City; in addition, operator review pages carry an inline disclosure note positioned above the first affiliate CTA so the relationship is visible without any scroll to the footer. Readers based abroad should also be aware that the FTC in the United States and the CMA in the United Kingdom both demand similar disclosure for advertising aimed at their own residents.
7. Commitments to readers
The short summary of obligations the hub accepts from running this funding model: disclosure is upfront and visible rather than tucked away; review scoring follows a fixed methodology that does not flex for commercial partners; errors get corrected on a published timeline; operators do not preview drafts; affiliate status appears in the underlying HTML markup, allowing technically literate readers to verify it for themselves. The full description of the editorial process — fact-checking workflow, source-handling standards, correction procedure — is documented on the Editorial Policy page. Anything that smells like a breach of these rules can be flagged via the Contact page; substantive complaints get logged against the relevant review on record.
8. Wider context for readers
Three further points sit alongside the disclosure above. Player-protection commitments folded into every operator score are documented on the Responsible Gambling page. Privacy practices that govern any data captured during your visits to Jackpot City sit on the Privacy Policy page, with the technical detail of cookies and similar storage on the Cookie Policy page. The full menu of coverage on this review hub branches out from the Jackpot City Casino homepage and the links it carries.