Where our data comes from

Every fact on this site is tied to the document we read it in, and any fact we cannot source we do not publish — we drop it rather than guess. Across 54 casinos that is 622 distinct sources and 230 individually-cited regulator actions.

Two tiers of evidence, held to different standards

We do not treat all facts as equally demanding. The facts that decide whether a casino is safe are held to a far higher standard than the facts that describe what it offers.

• Tier A — who is licensed and who owns it. A licence, its status and the owning company come only from the regulator's own register or an official corporate record. Never an aggregator, never a review site, never the casino's own marketing. If a licence is not in the register, we do not report it as verified — however many other sites repeat it.
• Tier B — the commercial detail. Payout times, deposit minimums, bonus terms and payment methods come from the operator's own pages where we can reach them, and from reputable aggregators where we cannot — operator pages routinely block automated access or vary by country. These we report with their source and their date.

The rule that governs the whole site

A claim without a source is not published. On a profile, if a fact is not in the sources table at the bottom of the page, it is not on the page — we would rather show less than show something we cannot stand behind. A claimed licence with no citable register entry does not become a verified licence; it becomes "licence not verified", which is a statement about the limits of our evidence and not an accusation that the casino is unlicensed. Those are different things and we never let one read as the other.

What "we found no action" means, and what it does not

When a profile says we found no enforcement action, it means we searched the registers of the regulators that publish named decisions and found none. It does not mean none exists: some regulators publish enforcement only in aggregate, anonymised, or not at all, and where a casino's regulator is one of those we say its record could not be fully checked rather than award it a clean sheet it did not earn. A casino nobody has swept for enforcement is held out of the safest ranking entirely — an empty record only counts when someone looked.

Dates, and why they are on everything

Licences lapse, companies are bought, fines are issued, payout policies change. Every fact carries the date we read it, and we re-verify published casinos on a rolling basis. If a date is old, treat the fact as old — and follow the source link, which goes to the record itself, not to our summary of it.