How the data is gathered and checked

Where the data comes from

In our guides, licence rules, legal limits, and operator obligations are taken from each market's regulator and its official bulletins. RTP, volatility, and the rules of a game are taken from the datasheets the game provider publishes and from the reports of independent testing labs (eCOGRA, GLI, iTech Labs, and equivalents). Bonus terms are taken from the terms the operator itself publishes. Each fact is stored with the exact URL of its source and the date it was verified against that URL, and both appear on the published page. Press coverage, blogs, and forums are never the basis for a figure. What we check on each casino has its own sources, set out below.

Checks before publication

A page publishes only if it clears every one of these checks. There is no editorial exception: a page that fails goes back for rework, not to the site.

• Sourced figures. Every number in the text must trace back to a cited fact or to a documented calculation over cited facts. An unsourced number fails the page.
• No winning promises. Hype language (“guaranteed profit”, “risk-free”, “unbeatable strategy”, urgency phrasing) fails the page outright.
• Near-duplicate detection. Pages are fingerprinted and compared; one too close to an existing page is rejected rather than published as filler.
• Substance and natural wording. A page must answer its question with substance, and term frequency has to stay within natural language.
• Valid structured data. The machine-readable markup embedded in the page must parse and must match the visible content.
• Per-country legal framing. A guide describes only the rules the regulator of the market it covers actually publishes; where the rule differs by country, each edition states its own instead of generalizing.
• Responsible gambling. Every page carries the age and risk notice, and mechanics guides link to the help resources of the reader's own country.

Dates and re-checks

Each fact carries its own check date, and that is the date shown: rebuilding a page does not refresh it. Sources that move often — bonus terms, licence registers — are re-checked more frequently than ones that barely change. When a re-check finds a change, the fact is updated and every page built on it is regenerated and put back through the gates before republishing.

What we check on the casinos we list

For the casinos on our lists, we look up the licence, the complaint record and the bonus terms. What we found sits next to each name as short lines, each with its source and the date we read it. A line we cannot source is left out rather than guessed.

• Licence. The licence the operator states, as AskGamblers or Casino.Guru record it, for example Curaçao. We show it as a stated licence: we have not yet confirmed any of these licences in a regulator's register. Where the sources disagree, or name no licence, we show no licence line.
• Complaint record. The share of complaints about the casino that AskGamblers marks as resolved. We show it only where AskGamblers lists at least 10 complaints about the casino: a share of a handful says little.
• Bonus terms. The MONTECLAR bonus as the casino's affiliate program states it to us for your edition, with the date we last checked it.
• Your country. Whether the casino takes players from your country, from the partner's own country list. On an edition for one country we name that country. On an edition for several, the line appears once the page has loaded, for the country your connection comes from.
• Payment methods and withdrawal limits. The payment methods, and the minimum and maximum withdrawal, that the casino's affiliate program states to us for your country, where we have them on record.

We have not deposited or withdrawn our own money at these casinos yet; when we do, the line will say so.

Where the checked facts come from

AskGamblers pages are read directly. Casino.Guru refused a direct read, so a licence we show from Casino.Guru comes from search summaries of its pages and can lag behind them. Complaint figures are all-time counts as AskGamblers showed them on the reading date. Every line keeps the date it was read. A licence or complaint line older than 60 days stops every update of the site until we read its source again; bonus terms are updated whenever a partner restates them.

A numeric rating, later

We are building a numeric rating out of 100 points, with fixed weights: licence 25 + player terms 25 + payout terms 20 + complaint record 15 + our commission, what the casino pays us, 15 = 100. Our own deposit tests carry 0 points in this version: we have not run any yet. No licence is confirmed in a regulator's register yet, so no casino could earn the licence part in full today. The rating comes when the data is complete for every casino: today facts such as withdrawal times, and our own deposit tests, are still missing for most of them, and a score built on gaps would mislead. No scores are shown on the site now. The order of our tables and of the casino choice page is set by us, on commercial grounds, as how the site is funded explains.

What this methodology does not cover

Monteclar does not test casinos itself: there are no first-hand deposits, withdrawals or support response times behind anything here. The brand reviews and comparisons it does publish are built from documents and complaint sites — the terms the operator publishes, the partner program's own country lists and payment terms, the licence the operator states as AskGamblers or Casino.Guru record it, and the complaint record on AskGamblers — and each one states what was checked against a document and what was not. If first-hand testing ever begins, the method will be described on this page before the first tested review appears. The commercial relationship that funds the site is set out on how the site is funded.

Report an error

If a figure does not match its source, tell us through the contact page with the page address, the data point, and a link to the source. Confirmed corrections trigger an immediate re-check and a rebuild of the affected pages.