Casinos.com Editorial Policy

Casinos.com covers what matters across the live and online casino worlds – from the games people play and the places they stay to the food, shows, personalities, and business behind it all. We approach this beat with curiosity, expertise, and a healthy sense of fun. But we take our responsibility to readers seriously. What follows is our commitment to being accurate, fair, independent, and transparent.

This policy explains the standards readers can expect from Casinos.com. It applies to news, reviews, guides, analysis, opinion, newsletters, video, audio, social media, and other content published under our name. It applies to staff members, freelancers, and other contributors.

Our mission is to help inform people to make decisions about casinos, games, travel, dining, entertainment, and the business and regulation that impacts the gambling experience. We hope to inform and engage with our users along the way.

We only publish what we can take reasonable steps to verify. We use reliable sources, seek original documentation where practicable, and clearly attribute information gathered by others.

We distinguish established facts from allegations, forecasts, analysis, opinion, and information that remains uncertain. Speed never excuses publishing information we cannot responsibly support. We always give people and organizations facing significant criticism or allegations a fair opportunity to respond.

We do not fabricate, plagiarize, manipulate quotations, or present staged, synthetic, or materially altered content as a record of reality.

Named sources are generally preferable. We may grant confidentiality when information is important, the source has direct knowledge, and there is a legitimate reason for protecting the source’s identity. An editor must know the source’s identity and approve the use of unnamed sourcing.

Press releases, social posts, AI output, and promotional materials are starting points for reporting—not proof. We seek primary records, firsthand observation, on-the-record sources, and other reliable evidence. Material originating elsewhere is credited, including reporting, quotations, photographs, video, data, and graphics.

We preserve the meaning and context of quotations. Translation and minor editing for clarity must not change what a person intended to say.

Casinos.com earns revenue through affiliate relationships with some gambling operators and other businesses we cover. Affiliate links may appear in independently produced editorial content. The existence or value of a commercial relationship does not determine our news coverage, findings, ratings, rankings, or recommendations.

Editors—not advertisers, affiliate partners, operators, or other commercial interests—make final editorial decisions. Commercial teams may identify an error or raise a concern, but they do not approve editorial content or receive advance access as a condition of a business relationship.

We cover operators fairly regardless of whether we have a commercial relationship with them. Ratings and rankings are based on published methodologies applied consistently.

An affiliate link does not, by itself, turn independently produced editorial content into sponsored content. Relevant affiliate disclosures appear clearly and close to the content they concern.

Our online casino and product reviews follow methodologies that we define publicly and apply consistently. Reviewers test with their own funds where practicable and disclose material limitations.

Coverage of hotels, casinos, restaurants, shows, and other in-person experiences is based on firsthand experience when represented as a review. Complimentary rooms, meals, tickets, travel, or other material assistance are disclosed. We do not accept payment for independent reviews or change ratings in response to commercial pressure.

We correct material errors promptly and transparently.

Material changes carry a dated note explaining what changed. We may silently correct spelling, grammar, formatting, broken links, or other minor issues that do not alter meaning.

We consider every credible correction request, although we do not guarantee the change requested. To report an error, use the contact details on our Contact page or contact the article’s author or editorial team.

Artificial intelligence may assist our journalists, but it does not replace original reporting, human judgment, verification, or accountability. A named journalist and an editor remain responsible for everything we publish, regardless of the tools used to produce it.

Subject to editorial review and the use of approved tools, AI may assist with tasks such as transcription, translation, document organization, preliminary research, data analysis, headline suggestions, summaries, and early-stage drafting.

AI output is not a source. Any fact, quotation, citation, calculation, recommendation, or conclusion produced or suggested by an AI system must be verified against reliable original sources before publication.

We do not use AI to:

• Fabricate or simulate reporting, interviews, quotations, firsthand experience, reviews, sources, or credentials.
• Create a review of a product, venue, game, restaurant, hotel, or event that the attributed reviewer did not assess as represented.
• Generate or materially alter news photographs, documentary video, or audio in a way that could mislead readers about reality.
• Impersonate a real person or create deceptive synthetic media (parody notwithstanding)
• Make final editorial judgments about accuracy, fairness, newsworthiness, ratings, rankings, or responsible-gambling risk.
• Place confidential source material, unpublished reporting, personal data, commercially sensitive information, or embargoed material into an AI service that has not been approved for that purpose.
• Republish AI output that infringes copyright, plagiarizes another source, or reproduces distinctive language without attribution.

Routine assistance such as spelling suggestions, transcription checked against a recording, and formatting does not normally require an article-level disclosure. We disclose AI use when it materially affects what readers see or how substantive findings were produced. A disclosure should explain what the technology helped produce and how a journalist verified the result.

Every AI-assisted item receives appropriate human review for factual accuracy, sourcing, context, fairness, bias, privacy, legality, copyright, and responsible-gambling considerations. We review this policy as technology and newsroom practices evolve.

Images, video, audio, screenshots, and material supplied by users or third parties must be verified and accurately described. Editing must not materially misrepresent what occurred. Illustrations, reconstructions, and synthetic or materially altered media are clearly labeled.

We obtain or confirm appropriate rights to publish material and credit its source. We take additional care with graphic content, private individuals, and material that may expose a person to harassment or harm.

Gambling causes harm to some participants. We do not ignore or minimize that harm, glamorize gambling, target minors or vulnerable people, or present gambling as a reliable path to financial gain.

Promotional gambling content carries appropriate responsible-gambling messaging. We maintain and regularly review information about support and self-exclusion resources. Coverage of gambling harm and addiction is accurate, respectful, and informed by authoritative health and support organizations.

Laws and availability vary by location. We do not assume that gambling is lawful or suitable for every reader, and we do not provide legal advice.

The same standards of accuracy, fairness, attribution, independence, confidentiality, and responsible-gambling coverage apply to Casinos.com accounts and to professional posts made by our journalists.

Our contributors may promote their work and are encouraged to participate in public discussion. When their Casinos.com affiliation is apparent, they must not disclose confidential reporting, misrepresent our coverage, present personal opinions as an official company position, or publish promotional claims that would not meet our editorial standards.

Personal views remain the contributor’s own unless Casinos.com has expressly authorized the person to speak for the organization. Errors in professional posts are corrected promptly and transparently.

We do not give sources or story subjects the right to approve our coverage before publication. Reporters may check a quotation, figure, technical point, or limited passage when doing so improves accuracy. The source may correct facts but may not control the angle, conclusions, or publication decision.

Subjects of significant adverse coverage receive an appropriate opportunity to respond. The right of reply is not a right to review or rewrite the story.

We do not normally remove accurate published work merely because a person or organization dislikes it or because circumstances later change. We may update, anonymize, restrict, or remove material when required by law or when compelling safety, privacy, fairness, or ethical considerations outweigh the public interest in preserving it. An editor approves such decisions.