You should know how a website makes money before you trust its recommendations. Here is how Best From The Bets is funded and what that funding does and does not influence.
In short
Certain casinos, sportsbooks and poker rooms featured here reward us when a reader arrives through our link and then signs up or deposits. It adds nothing to your costs, and the deal you get matches what the operator would offer you without us. The commission is the main reason the site exists in its current form and is free to read.
How our links work
“Play Now”, “Visit Site” and “Claim Bonus” buttons, along with most other operator links, travel via a /go/ address hosted on our domain. That short stop lets the operator’s affiliate program recognise that the visit came from us. This relies on cookies: each page load has our server store mz_vid, a random visitor ID kept twelve months, and mz_src, recording the route by which you arrived, kept 30 days; following a /go/ link also places the technical session cookies mozbiz_session and XSRF-TOKEN, gone after roughly 20 hours. The operator’s own site may set its own tracking cookies after you arrive. More detail is in our Privacy Policy.
Who pays us and how
We are generally paid in one of three ways — a single fee per new customer who deposits, a cut of the revenue the operator makes from players we send, or a flat charge for a placement or ad slot. Operators who want to be considered for a listing can contact us through our Get Listed page; a request to be listed is not a promise that we will list anyone.
What payment does not buy
Money does not buy a review score, a positive verdict or the removal of criticism. We describe wagering requirements, withdrawal limits and complaints whether or not an operator pays us, and we can remove a site from our pages if we stop trusting it, even when that costs us income. Where a placement on a page is paid for, we label it as such.
Not every page earns us money
Plenty of what we publish brings in nothing at all: state-by-state law guides, rules of blackjack and roulette, slot machine explainers, land-based casino listings and the responsible gambling section. We also mention operators we have no deal with, and some we warn readers away from. When a page compares several sites, the ones that pay us and the ones that do not are judged on the same points. If we ever had to choose between a commission and a reader’s trust, we would rather lose the commission; a site nobody believes earns nothing in the long run.
Licences and US players
Many operators we cover are offshore businesses licensed outside the United States. They are not regulated by US state authorities, and an affiliate relationship with us does not change that. We never describe a site as US-licensed unless a state regulator has licensed it. Check the law in your state before you sign up, and remember that the site is intended only for readers aged 21 and over.
Why we tell you this
The US Federal Trade Commission expects publishers to disclose material connections with the businesses they recommend, and we agree with the principle. A short notice in the footer of every page points here, and this page sets out the arrangement in plain language.
Questions
This site is published by Pharolume Studios DMCC, Jumeirah Business Centre 1, Cluster G, Jumeirah Lakes Towers, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. If you think a page does not make a commercial relationship clear enough, tell us at [email protected] and we will look at it.