Affiliate Disclosure

OffshoreDesk reviews offshore-licensed casinos for readers in Great Britain. To keep the lights on without charging readers or selling ads to operators, some of the outbound links on this site are affiliate links. If you click one and later sign up or deposit at the casino in question, we may receive a commission from that operator. This page explains exactly how that works and, more importantly, what it does not change about our coverage.

What an affiliate link actually is

An affiliate link is a tracked URL. When you click it, the destination site can tell that you arrived from OffshoreDesk. If you go on to register an account, the operator may pay us a one-off fee, a share of net revenue, or both. The price you pay, the bonus you receive, and the terms you are offered are identical whether you reach the casino through our link, type the address in directly, or find it via a search engine. There is no cost to you for using our links.

Not every link on the site is an affiliate link. We also link to regulators, dispute services, forums, news articles and operators we have no commercial relationship with. We do not flag each link individually because that would clutter the page, but you should assume that links to casinos we review may be commercial.

What commissions do not change

This is the part that matters. Money from affiliate partners does not buy anything on this site that a reader would care about. Specifically:

• Scores are not for sale. Our ratings are based on a fixed checklist covering licensing, terms, withdrawal behaviour, complaint history and player feedback. A higher commission does not raise a score by a single point.
• Ranking order is not for sale. Lists are sorted by the criteria stated at the top of each page. We do not push a worse operator above a better one because they pay more.
• We still publish the bad parts. If an operator has slow payouts, predatory bonus terms, a weak licence, vague ownership or a pattern of confiscating winnings, we say so, even when they are a paying partner. If a partner asks us to remove or soften criticism, we refuse, and we are willing to lose the partnership over it.
• We will list operators we do not earn from. If a casino is genuinely worth a mention but has no affiliate programme, or we have been declined, it can still appear in our coverage.

Reader-funded independence

We prefer the term reader-funded because, in the end, it is your clicks and your decisions that pay for the research. That places the obligation squarely on us: be useful enough that informed readers want to use our links, rather than chasing the highest bidder.

Questions, corrections and complaints

If you think a review reads like an advert, if a score does not match the evidence in the text, or if you believe a commercial relationship has influenced our coverage, please tell us. Send the page URL and what you think is wrong. We read every message and will correct genuine mistakes in public, with a note explaining what changed and why.