How We Get Paid
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In one paragraph
Online Slots Town makes its money from referral fees. When a reader we sent to a casino or sportsbook registers and funds an account, that operator may pay us. Most “Play now”, “Get bonus” and “Visit casino” buttons are referral links. Clicking one does not raise your price or shrink your bonus, and no brand can pay for kinder words.
The company that is paid
All fees go to Levantcombe Studios Limited, Grand Ocean Plaza, Ocean Village, Gibraltar GX11 1AA, the owner of Online Slots Town. The money funds our writers, testing deposits, fact-checking and servers. We sell no memberships, put nothing behind a paywall and ask readers for no contributions.
Inside a /go/ link
A referral link here looks like onlineslotstown.com/go/brand-name, for instance /go/wild-casino. Our server redirects the visit to the casino with a partner code added, which tells the casino who sent you. Registering and depositing after that can trigger a payment to Levantcombe Studios, either directly from the casino or through the affiliate network it uses. The formula varies by partner: a flat fee for each first-time depositor, a revenue share taken from that player's later sessions, or a hybrid of both. Contracts get renegotiated, and several brands reviewed on this site have no deal with us whatsoever.
Plenty of our links earn nothing: those to state gaming commissions, to 1-800-MY-RESET, to court documents and to news reports are there purely for your benefit. If a referral link turns up inside an article because we use a casino as a worked example, everything on this page applies to it too.
Your side of the deal
You pay nothing for our referral. Typing the casino's URL by hand would get you the same welcome package, the same playthrough rule and the same withdrawal policy. Fees are budgeted by the operator as marketing spend and are never taken from your balance. If the offer on the casino's page does not match ours, the casino's version is the valid one; drop us a line and we will fix our page.
Building our rankings
Toplists mix brands that pay us with brands that do not. Scores are earned in testing: wagering and bonus caps, how fast a real withdrawal lands, deposit and payout fees, the slot library, the mobile experience and how support handles an awkward question. Reviewers work without knowing the commercial arrangement with the brand they test. Signing a new partner does not lift its score, and losing one does not cut it. Slow payers, brands that rewrite their terms against players and operators that lose their licence are dropped regardless of any contract.
Off the table
- first place, a “top pick” badge or any rank in a list;
- deleting criticism or reader complaints from a review;
- articles drafted to an operator's script.
Casinos can flag factual mistakes in the same way readers do, and we amend a page only when they back the correction with evidence. Any sponsored banner is marked as an ad right beside it.
Brands without a US licence
A good number of the brands we feature are licensed abroad rather than by a state regulator. No state gaming commission oversees them, US player-protection and complaint schemes do not reach them, and online casinos remain illegal in most states. Our reviews state this plainly, and the Legal Disclaimer goes into more detail. Check your state's law, read the casino's terms and set a deposit cap before your first spin. Players must be 21 or over.
Referral cookies
Attribution relies on our own first-party cookies. Two of them, mz_src and mz_vid, are placed on each page you open. Clicking through any /go/ address adds two more, XSRF-TOKEN and mozbiz_session, each lasting close to 20 hours. Our Privacy & Cookie Policy lists them with their lifetimes.
Ask us about a brand
Curious whether a specific casino pays us? Write to [email protected] and the reply will name the deal, if one exists. If our income model ever shifts, we will rewrite this page and update the date.