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Affiliate Disclosure

Last updated: 16 October 2026

Some outbound links on Claret Philippines lead to casino operators or to partner comparison pages, and if a reader follows one and signs up, the site may earn a commission. That money pays for the work behind the reviews, including the studio checks and the licence reading that fill most of these pages.

Which links can earn the site money?

Any outbound link that points to an operator or to a partner comparison page should be treated as potentially commercial. The site does not mark each one individually, so the safe habit is to assume a commercial link whenever you leave these pages for an operator. Internal links, such as the ones to the editorial policy or the licensing and regulation section, carry no commission.

Does a commission change what a review says?

No operator pays for a rating, and no payment changes how a studio or a game is tested. Bea Villaruel checks camera counts, OCR accuracy and lag figures against a studio’s own technical disclosures or against a live test session, and she does not work from marketing copy. When a studio’s numbers do not hold up, the review says so, whether or not that studio’s operator partners pay the site anything.

How does the site decide what to test?

Coverage follows reader questions and the technology itself. The order of work looks like this:

  • Pick a live-dealer studio or a slot with bonus rounds worth examining.
  • Check the technical disclosures, then run a live session where one is possible.
  • Compare the two sets of figures and note where they diverge.
  • Publish the findings, with the licence facts taken from AGCO or iGaming Ontario notices.

Bea’s background as a former live-television broadcast technician in Manila shapes this method, because camera positions and vision-mixing desks behave in predictable ways and a studio’s claims can be measured against them. Her byline page sits at /author/bea-villaruel/.

Where can readers ask about this?

Questions about a specific link, or about how a review was funded, can go to the contact page. Readers who want to set limits on their own play can reach ConnexOntario at 1-866-531-2600 or connexontario.ca, the Responsible Gambling Council Canada at responsiblegambling.org, or Gambling Therapy at gamblingtherapy.org.