Affiliate Disclosure & FTC Compliance
How We Make Money
CasinoPayoutHQ is an independent review site maintained by affiliate commissions. When you sign up for a casino through a link on our site, the casino's affiliate program pays us a percentage of your future activity or a one-time signup bonus — typically 20-40% of their affiliate payout pool.
This does NOT:
- Increase your cost or reduce your bonuses
- Influence our rankings or reviews
- Mean you're locked into using our links (you can always signup directly)
Our Conflicts of Interest (& How We Manage Them)
We Earn from Every Link
Yes. This could theoretically incentivize recommending any casino with an affiliate program. We manage this by ranking casinos on merit first, then only featuring ones that pass our testing bar. A casino with a fat affiliate payout but poor payouts to players doesn't make our list.
We'll Remove Casinos that Fail
Losing affiliate commission doesn't scare us. If a casino's payout speeds degrade, bonus terms become deceptive, or support quality drops, we remove them. The relationship is one-way: casinos don't pay us for reviews, we link to ones we trust.
We Disclose Everything
This entire page exists to make sure you know our incentives. Every casino link is clearly marked as an affiliate link. We're transparent because trust is more valuable than a single commission.
FTC Compliance
CasinoPayoutHQ complies with the Federal Trade Commission's Endorsement Guides. All casino links are clearly marked as affiliate links. We disclose material connections between ourselves and the casinos we review.
The FTC requires us to make clear that we earn money when you use our links. This page and our in-page disclosure badges meet that requirement.
Why Affiliate Reviews Are Trustworthy
Yes, we earn money from your clicks. But here's why our incentives actually align with yours:
- Long-term Value: If we recommend a bad casino and you lose money, you won't come back. One bad recommendation costs us months of commissions from you.
- Reputation: Bad reviews spread faster than good ones. A single "SCAM" post on Reddit hurts us more than 10 affiliate commissions help us.
- Honesty Costs Us: If we removed a high-commission casino for poor payout speeds, we lose immediate income. But we do it because trust is more valuable.
Our Affiliate Partnerships
We have active affiliate relationships with the following casino operators:
- CoinFrenzy (Sweepstakes Operator)
- Vega.bet (Crypto Casino)
- Stake.us (Social Casino)
- SpinQuest (Sweepstakes Operator)
- Yeet (Crypto Casino)
Questions?
Email us at hello@casinopayouthq.com if you have concerns about our affiliate relationships or editorial independence.