METHODOLOGY

How we review.

Casino Fact Lab documents operator facts one source at a time, keeps every uncertainty visible and matches casinos to your preferences. There is no overall rating and nothing is for sale.

What we research

For each casino site we research the operating company and licence (from the regulator's register), deposit and withdrawal methods per currency, minimums and fees, advertised withdrawal timing, bonus mechanics, documented game categories and catalogue listings, verification (KYC) rules, support channels and safer-gambling tools. Facts belong to the site they were documented for: a UK site's facts are never assumed for another market.

How a fact is labelled

DocumentedA source scoped to that site supports the statement, with its checked date.

TestedA real Casino Fact Lab test. None are recorded yet, and advertised claims never stand in for one.

Sources conflictTwo sources disagree. We keep the disagreement visible instead of choosing the convenient answer.

Not confirmedNo current source supports the fact for that site. The reason sits next to the fact.

Re-check in progressThe fact passed its review window. Its value is withheld until a person re-reads the source.

Freshness

Every kind of fact has a review window. A fact is shown only while its own review date and its window both hold; after that it reads “Re-check in progress” until someone re-reads the source. A window can shorten a fact's life, never extend it.

Licence status: 7 days
Bonus terms: 14 days
Payments and withdrawals: 30 days
Resident status and geo access: 30 days
Game listings: 60 days
Identity, KYC, support, game categories and safer-gambling tools: 90 days
Minimum age: 180 days

Match Score and evidence coverage

Match Score is preference fit on what we can check: of the choices you made that current evidence confirms or rules out, the share it confirms. Each question you answer (games, payments, deposit, priorities) counts once, however many options you pick. A choice we cannot check yet, because it is unknown, untested, due for a recheck or disputed between sources, counts neither for nor against a casino.

Evidence coverage is how much of your own request current evidence can check. We show a Match Score only when at least half of your request can be checked, on at least two of your choices; otherwise the casino stays in your results marked “Limited evidence”, with no number. Results are ordered by whether a casino meets your payment and deposit needs, then Match Score, then evidence coverage, then name.

On a casino’s own page, research coverage is the share of its researched fields that current evidence supports. It describes documentation, not quality, and never changes a match.

There is no safety score, commercial score, paid placement or overall rating.

Licence and access are separate

Licence: who licenses the operator, checked on the regulator's register.
Local licence: whether that licence comes from the regulator of your location. “Not locally licensed” is shown only when the local register shows no match.
Geo access: whether the site was reachable from a connection in a market. When it was not, we say “Geo-blocked from your location”, nothing more.
Resident status: whether the operator's own terms accept or restrict residents of your market.

A bonus is operator-advertised information. It never implies that a casino is available, accepts you or is locally licensed.

Location is context

We use an approximate location only to choose which local labels to show, or the location you pick. Nothing is stored, no cookie is set, and every casino stays listed. We never explain how to get around a geo block or a self-exclusion.

Independence

Commercial relationships are kept private and stored separately from research. They never change a fact, a Match Score, evidence coverage or the order of results, and no casino carries a paid or sponsored label.

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