How We Earn

The short version

Strawberry Quest is free to read and carries no subscription. Some of the outbound links to gambling operators on this site are commercial: if you follow one, open an account and play, the operator may pay us a commission. That is how the desk covers its costs. You never pay more, and no term of your account changes because you arrived through us.

What that commission does not buy

This is the part most disclosure pages leave vague, so we will be specific.

• It does not buy a favourable write-up. A commercial relationship never changes what an entry says about an operator’s licence, terms, restrictions or safeguards.
• It does not change a fact. If a wagering requirement is 45x, it is 45x in the entry regardless of who pays whom. We do not round in anyone’s favour and we do not omit a term because it is unflattering.
• It does not buy position. The ledger is ordered by publication date and by section, not by commercial value. There is no paid placement, no promoted row, and no “featured” slot for sale.
• It does not get an unlicensed operator listed. We will not add a commercial link to an operator whose licence we could not confirm in a public register, at any price.
• It does not buy silence. We will not delete or soften an accurate statement because a partner objected. Corrections go through the published corrections process like everyone else’s.
• It does not buy a rating, for the simple reason that we do not publish ratings at all.

Which pages can carry commercial links

In practice, entries in Casino Reviews and, occasionally, entries about specific promotions in Bonus Terms are the ones most likely to contain a commercial link. Explanatory entries about provincial law and player-protection tools generally have nothing to link to commercially, and the standing pages you are reading now — about, verification, safety, licensing, privacy, terms and contact — carry none at all.

Why we tell you

Partly because advertising standards and consumer protection law across Canada expect material connections to be disclosed, and partly for a plainer reason: a reader deciding where to put their money is entitled to know who pays the person giving the advice. A disclosure buried in eight-point type at the bottom of a page is technically a disclosure and practically a dodge, so ours is a page in the footer of every screen on this site.

If you would rather not

Nothing here requires you to use our links. Every operator we name can be reached by typing its address into your browser, and every regulator register we cite is public and free. The entry is the product; the link is just a link.