Affiliate disclosure
Finest Online Gambling charges readers nothing and shows no display ads. What keeps it going is referral income from some of the bookmakers and casinos under review; below is how that money flows and where its influence ends.
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The short answer
Certain buttons and text links that lead to bookmakers and casinos are partner links. Register and play after clicking one, and the operator may pay the publisher, Tidequarry Interactive DMCC, a commission. You are charged nothing extra and get exactly the public bonus.
How a partner link works
Each partner link first opens a finestonlinegambling.com/go/ address, which forwards your browser to the operator and adds a tag identifying this site as the referrer. Partner links carry the rel="sponsored" attribute, and blocks of offers are marked as sponsored. The cookies involved are named on the cookie page.
What the operators pay for
Agreements differ. Under some, the operator pays a fixed amount once a referred reader registers and makes a first deposit. Under others, the publisher receives a continuing cut of the money that customer brings the operator. Rates are agreed privately with each operator or its affiliate programme and are not published.
What money does not change
No payment buys a better score, a softer description of an operator’s terms or the removal of a weakness from a review. We take every bonus number from the operator’s published terms, partner or not, and a number without a source is left off the page. Operators do not read reviews before publication and cannot approve them.
What money can change
A commercial agreement can decide whether a link earns a commission, and it can influence which brands appear in a sponsored block or in what order they are shown there. Where that happens, the block is labelled. Brands we have no agreement with are still reviewed when they matter to South African readers.
How brands get on the site
We cover operators that South African players actually come across: bookmakers with a provincial licence, the offshore casinos that advertise to local players, and the payment methods and games they run. A brand is added when readers ask about it or when it starts taking rand deposits, not because it has signed a deal. If a partner tightens its conditions, the review is updated to show it, and when it stops paying winners, the review is withdrawn or marked accordingly even if the agreement is still running.
Labels you will see
A “sponsored” label above a block of offers means the brands in it are partners. Buttons such as “Visit” or “Claim bonus” that pass through /go/ are partner links. Plain text links to regulators, help services and news sources are never paid.
Offshore brands
Some partners are licensed outside South Africa, where online casino games are not licensed under the National Gambling Act 2004. A partner link carries no assurance of legality where you are; our disclaimer covers that question.
Who receives the commission
The site is published by:
Tidequarry Interactive DMCC
Almas Tower, Jumeirah Lakes Towers, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, PO Box 48800
Email: [email protected]
Questions about a particular link or partner can be sent to the same address.