Affiliate Disclosure
Affiliate partnerships with online casino operators are what pay for Gransino. Below, you'll find precisely how that model operates, the cost to you (none), and the guardrails that stop money from bleeding into what we publish. For the bigger picture of who we are, head to the About page; for the flagship operator review itself, the Gransino Casino homepage is the place. Seen pages like this elsewhere and just want the bits that set us apart? Skip to the summary at the foot.
1. How Gransino gets paid
Follow an affiliate link on Gransino, register at the destination, and Gransino may pick up a commission. The operator funds that fee straight from its marketing spend — never the player, and never as a surcharge on anything you do on its platform. The trade leans on two payout shapes, and which one applies depends on the deal: a one-off CPA (cost-per-acquisition) that lands when a qualifying signup completes, or a revenue-share deal that trickles a thin slice of the operator's net gaming revenue from your play back to us over the months that follow. You won't see any of this happening; the sole tangible upshot is that, at signup, the operator can tell the visit started here.
2. What it costs you
Nothing. Affiliate links cost the reader precisely the same as direct links. Bonus offers stay the same. Stakes stay the same. Withdrawal speeds stay the same. What you would pay to play on the operator's site is identical whether you arrive through a Gransino link, a Google ad, or by typing the URL straight into your browser. If anything, partnership pages now and then carry an exclusive welcome offer marginally better than the default. Where that happens, we flag it openly in the relevant review.
3. Why this is allowed to be neutral
The honest answer is reputation arithmetic. A casino review site lives or dies on being right about which operators are worth registering with. Pump up scores to flatter partner brands and, within a few months, the audience that drives traffic — and so drives commissions — drifts to a competitor. An affiliate site's long-run commercial interest is the same as its editorial interest: be honest about which operators are good and which are not. One consistent rating framework is applied in the same way to every operator we review, partner or otherwise. Gransino has scored partner operators at six and below, and scored operators with no commercial relationship at eight and above.
4. What "not influencing the review" means in practice
Three concrete rules. First, partnership status feeds nothing into the score: the eight criteria are graded against observed performance, full stop. Second, partnership status buys no flattering framing: where a partner operator has a problem — slow withdrawals, murky bonus terms, a thin live-dealer catalogue — that problem shows up in the review under the relevant criterion. Third, operators do not pre-approve content. We send no drafts out for sign-off. Operators see Gransino content for the first time when it goes live, just like everyone else.
Factual updates run on two more rules. Should an operator write in to point out a genuine error, we verify the claim, correct anything that is wrong, and leave a dated note at the foot of the review recording the change — partner or not, the process is identical. Should an operator instead complain that a low score feels "unfair" while pointing to no actual error, the score stays put, and our reply is simply that one rating methodology covers every operator without exception.
5. Recognising affiliate links
Spot a commercial link easily enough: every operator-bound link out of Gransino bears the rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" attribute, which tells search engines plainly that a paid relationship underpins it. Mechanically, most such links first pass through a counting hop at /go on this domain — a step that records the click for our analytics, then hands you off to the operator. From your side, you end up at the destination just as a plain link would take you, with not a single extra parameter bolted onto the operator's address. Plenty of other links here, though — to regulators, to helplines, to newsrooms, to game studios — earn us nothing, and those are marked with rel="noreferrer noopener" alone.
6. Compliance with disclosure rules
In the UK, two things set the bar here: the Consumer Rights Act 2015, which outlaws misleading commercial practices, plus the guidance from the CMA and ASA on undisclosed affiliate marketing. Between them, they demand that any affiliate tie be made plain enough for a reasonable reader to register that the link is commercial. Think of this page as the site-wide disclosure; individual operator reviews then add an inline note right above the first affiliate CTA, so nobody has to scroll to the footer to find it. Readers further afield should know too that the FTC in the United States, and the CMA in the United Kingdom, expect much the same of advertising directed at their own residents.
7. Commitments to readers
The obligations Gransino takes on from this funding model are short. Disclosure is upfront and visible, not tucked away. Reviews follow a fixed methodology that does not bend for partners. Errors are corrected on a published timeline. Operators get no preview of content. Affiliate status is signalled in the markup so technically literate readers can verify it. A full account of the editorial process — fact-checking, source standards, correction handling — is on the Editorial Policy page. Anything resembling a breach of these rules can be raised via the Contact page, and substantive complaints are logged against the relevant review.
8. Wider context for readers
Three points sit alongside this disclosure. The player-protection commitments baked into every operator score are explained on the Responsible Gambling page. The privacy practices governing any data gathered from you while reading Gransino are on the Privacy Policy page, with the technical detail of cookies and similar storage on the Cookie Policy page. The complete menu of what we cover is the Gransino Casino homepage and the links leading off it.