Affiliate Disclosure
PlayBonusGuide is free to use, and this page explains exactly how we pay for it — and the lines we do not let money cross.
Last updated 20 July 2026
We earn commissions from operator links
When you click a "Claim Offer" link on PlayBonusGuide and go on to register or deposit with that operator, the operator may pay us a commission. Depending on the partner, this takes the form of a cost-per-acquisition (CPA) payment, a revenue share on the activity of referred customers, or a hybrid of the two.
Two things are always true about these commissions:
- They never change what you receive. The bonus, odds, terms and price available to you are identical whether you arrive through our link or directly. The commission comes out of the operator's marketing budget, not your pocket.
- They never influence the Bonus Value Score. The score on every card is editorial. It is calculated from the offer's terms — wagering, odds, expiry, caps and the rest — and operators cannot pay to raise it, and are not penalised for not paying.
Sponsored placements are always labelled
Some operators pay for prominent placement on the site. Any placement of this kind carries a visible Sponsored badge, so you can always tell paid positioning apart from editorial ranking. Sponsorship buys visibility, never a better verdict, a better score or softer coverage of an offer's terms.
What this means in practice
- We only list offers we can actually check — full terms visible, codes verified against live promotions. An operator cannot buy a listing for an offer we cannot verify.
- Expired and poor-value offers stay on the site, clearly labelled, even when they belong to paying partners.
- Ranking on listing pages follows the Bonus Value Score and stated filters — not commercial terms.
- Every claim link carries
rel="sponsored nofollow", so search engines can see the commercial relationship too.
Why we work this way
Our only durable asset is being trusted. If the scores bent toward whoever pays most, the site would be useless to you and worthless to us within a year. Keeping the money and the maths separate is not a compliance exercise — it is the whole product.
Questions about any commercial relationship on the site? Email contact@playbonusguide.com.