About SpinRewardz: reading the terms behind every prize

What SpinRewardz is

A resource for players who already have accounts, derived from the documents the casinos publish.

Most UK casino sites revolve around the welcome offer, and that offer lasts a week. What the operator gives you in month six, the daily wheel, the free spins, the login prize, is the main reason to keep the account, and it is the part the banners say least about. SpinRewardz breaks those daily prizes down term by term: the gate in front of each one, what it can pay, whether the winnings carry wagering, how long they last, and when the promotion is dated to end.

The roster is ten casinos on purpose. Each one gets its promotion terms, general terms and help centre read in full, its licence matched on the public register, and its cashier documented method by method. A small roster read properly is worth more than a long one skimmed, and every review shows the date its sources were last read.

What this site will not do

• Name a casino without a Gambling Commission licence. Every casino mentioned on this site holds an active licence on the public register, and the licence number sits in its review. Sites without a GB licence are not covered, linked or named as options, whatever the search demand.
• Publish a page titled "not on GAMSTOP". GAMSTOP is the national self-exclusion scheme, and every casino on this site has signed up to it. Our GAMSTOP guide explains how it works and why it cannot be reversed early.
• Claim sourcing it does not have. Every figure on this site is derived from the operators' published terms and help pages, general terms, or from a regulator, a law or an official body. Where a casino publishes nothing, the page states that rather than speculating.
• Call a spin free when it is not. A spin you must risk your own money to unlock is an offer, and the pages state that, in line with the Advertising Standards Authority's rule on the word.
• Allow a score to be affected by commission. How the site earns is on the affiliate disclosure page. Two casinos on the roster pay no commission at all and are ranked alongside the rest.

Ewan Prescott, reviews editor

Ewan writes every single review, list and guide on the site, and signs each one with the date its sources were checked.

Ewan's job is reading. For each casino he has to read the promotion page for the daily prize, the full promotion terms beneath it, the general terms, the help centre articles on withdrawals, verification and account closure, and the entry on the Gambling Commission's register. For each guide he has to read the Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice, the Gambling Act, HMRC's manuals, the FCA handbook and the adjudicators' own rules, quoted with a link to the clause.

He scores each casino for the daily prize first, then the cashier, then the licence and player tools, with the size of the lobby and the welcome offer counting least. The methodology page sets out the five steps and the weighting. The review is updated when a prize is removed, becomes capped, goes behind a login or is retired, as MrQ's daily spin was, and the score moves with it.

How the site is paid for

Some links on SpinRewardz are affiliate links. Every "Visit" button on a review or a list routes through a /go/ address to the casino, and if you open an account through one, the operator may pay us a commission. This costs you nothing, it will not change the terms you get, and it will not change what we write. The scoring rules are published, and casinos whose affiliate programmes are closed stay on the roster at the rank their terms have earned. The affiliate disclosure page has more detail, and the terms of use and privacy policy cover the rest. The guides have no affiliate links whatsoever.

Corrections and contact

Casinos change their terms without notice, so a page that has gone stale is corrected rather than left standing. If a figure on this site does not match the operator's page, tell us through the contact page with the URL and the source, and we will check it against the live terms and update the page and its date. Operators are welcome to do the same. Complaints about a casino go to the casino first; our guide on what to do when a casino won't pay out explains the route from there to the adjudicators.