How CasinoPopular earns money

Which links are affiliate links

Every link whose address starts with /go/ is an affiliate link. You will find them on the buttons of the casino lists ("Get bonus"), in the short "Where to play" strip on slot pages, and in the facts panel of some casino reviews. When you click one, we send you to the operator's site with a tag that tells the operator the visit came from us. If you then open an account and play, the operator may pay us a commission.

All other links on the site are ordinary links. Links to game studios, regulators, testing laboratories, the South African Responsible Gambling Foundation and to the sources quoted in our blog guides are not paid, and we add no tracking tags to them.

How we are paid

Affiliate agreements in this industry usually take one of three forms: a one-off fee for each new depositing customer, a share of the revenue the operator makes from players we referred, or a mix of both. Which form applies differs from operator to operator and can change over time. You never pay anything extra: the bonus and terms you see on the operator's site are the same whether you arrive through our link or type the address yourself.

What commission does not change

• Game facts. Reels, paylines, return-to-player figures, volatility and bonus rounds on slot pages come from each studio's published specification, paytable and help screens. No operator can buy a different number.
• Ratings and order. The order of a casino list follows the criteria published on How we rate: access for South African players, payment methods in rand, the licence named in the operator's terms, the clarity of bonus terms and the help offered to players who need to stop. A higher commission does not move an operator up the list.
• What we leave out. An operator is removed from our lists when its terms stop accepting players from South Africa, when its licence can no longer be found on the regulator's register, or when its bonus terms are written so that the offer cannot be judged. Whether it pays us is not part of that decision.

Why the money still matters

We would rather say it than hide it: a site paid by casinos has a reason to want you to sign up. That is why the site carries a gambling-help line in the header, the sidebar and the footer, why bonus figures on our pages are labelled as the operator's published offer rather than our promise, and why each list ends with the reminder that terms apply and play is for adults only.

South Africa and offshore casinos

Online casino games are not licensed in South Africa under the National Gambling Act 7 of 2004. The casinos we list hold licences issued in other jurisdictions, and the licence each one names is shown in its own terms. Before you play, read those terms, check that the operator accepts players from your province, and decide for yourself whether you are comfortable with an operator licensed abroad.

If you prefer not to use our links

You can read everything on this site and never click a /go/ link. Type the operator's address into your browser instead, or search for it. The game guides, payment method pages and blog articles work exactly the same either way.

Advertising and sponsored content

We do not sell rankings, and we do not publish casino reviews written by operators. If a page on the site is ever sponsored, it will say so at the top in words, not only in small print.

Questions

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Gambling is for adults aged 18 and over. If it stops being fun, the South African Responsible Gambling Foundation counselling line is free and open around the clock: 0800 006 008.