On this page14 sections
- 1. A review site, never a casino
- 2. Where Australian law stands
- 3. Promotions move faster than we do
- 4. Dollar figures are Australian dollars
- 5. RTP and volatility are the studio's numbers
- 6. Our verdicts are opinions
- 7. Some links earn us money
- 8. Sites we point to are not ours
- 9. Eighteen and over
- 10. Help when it stops being a game
- 11. Copyright and trade marks
- 12. How far our responsibility goes
- 13. Revisions
- 14. Reaching the publisher
Read this before you lean on anything OzCasinos.org prints. It covers every review, ranking, explainer and news story here, should be read alongside the terms and conditions, and comes from Halberdine Media Group Limited, the company behind OzCasinos. Something unclear? Email us first, rely on the page second.
1. A review site, never a casino
In short: no wager is ever placed with OzCasinos.
OzCasinos explains online casinos, pokies, banking methods and bonus rules for Australians. There is no cashier behind our pages, no player wallet and no game we own. A deposit, a bet or a payout cannot pass through us, and no regulator anywhere has licensed us to gamble on anyone's behalf, since writing about the industry needs no such permit. Click through to a casino or bookmaker and the contract you form is with that business, governed by its rules and by whichever authority, if any, supervises it.
2. Where Australian law stands
In short: no Australian licence exists for internet casinos or internet pokies.
Federal law, in the shape of the Interactive Gambling Act 2001, bars any business from offering real-money casino games or pokies over the internet to anyone physically in Australia, and neither Canberra nor any state hands out a permit for them. That means each casino brand mentioned on OzCasinos sits offshore and answers to a foreign licence, or to none. The law is aimed at suppliers, not punters, yet an offshore account still carries real exposure: ACMA routinely tells Australian internet providers to block unlawful gambling domains, a local court is a poor tool for prising a frozen balance out of an overseas company, and a brand can vanish from the market overnight. What Australians may lawfully bet on over the internet is licensed racing and sports wagering, lotteries and keno. Going further than that is your own call, and so is the risk attached.
3. Promotions move faster than we do
In short: when our summary and the casino's fine print disagree, the fine print wins.
Welcome deals, playthrough multiples, the stake ceiling that applies while bonus money is in play, which games count toward wagering, cash-out ceilings, accepted banking options and payout speeds all belong to the operator, and an operator can redraft any of them between breakfast and lunch. Every page here carries its last-updated date, and errors get fixed as soon as one of us, or one of you, notices them. Still, a casino can change its mind after our last check. Open the bonus terms on the operator's site and go through every clause before money leaves your account. If their version clashes with ours, theirs governs your account; tell us and we will bring our page into line.
4. Dollar figures are Australian dollars
In short: an AUD amount on OzCasinos means the casino advertises it in AUD to Australians.
A bonus appears in Australian dollars only if the operator itself quotes that bonus in AUD for players here. Euro or US-dollar deals built for other markets are never run through a currency converter and passed off as local. A casino whose Australian figure we cannot confirm does not make the list. Your bank's exchange margin, card surcharges and blockchain fees are invisible to us, so none of our numbers include them.
5. RTP and volatility are the studio's numbers
In short: we quote developers; we do not lab-test games.
Return-to-player, volatility, hit rate and top-win figures in our pokie and table game write-ups are copied from the maker's own documentation. Plenty of studios release one title in several RTP configurations and leave the casino to pick, so the copy loaded on your screen can return less than our figure. Tap the game's info or help panel to see which configuration is live. An RTP figure only holds over millions of spins; tonight's session can land anywhere.
6. Our verdicts are opinions
In short: a score from us is a judgement call, nothing more.
Ratings and rankings show how our editors weigh what an operator publishes about its terms and itself. You should not treat a score as financial, legal or taxation advice, or read it as a nudge to start playing. Casino games are engineered to keep a slice of every dollar over time, so treat a session as entertainment you pay for, like a footy ticket or a night at the pub. Never chase what you have lost, never gamble the rent, never gamble on credit. For guidance that fits your personal situation, see a qualified adviser.
7. Some links earn us money
In short: we are paid by some casinos, and we tell you which links do it.
Plenty of our casino buttons carry tracking, and an operator can reward us once a reader signs up via that button. That income keeps OzCasinos running. It cannot purchase a rating, a verdict or a single figure on a card. The full mechanics, the links involved and the way our top lists get ordered are laid out under who pays us on the rating method page.
8. Sites we point to are not ours
In short: linking somewhere does not mean we vouch for it.
Our pages send readers to casinos, studios, payment firms, regulators, newsrooms and support lines. Each of those is operated by someone else, who chooses its content, its data practices and its security. We neither steer those sites nor answer for what they say, whether they stay online or how they deal with you. Check their terms and privacy notice before typing in personal details.
9. Eighteen and over
In short: OzCasinos is for adults only.
Our audience is people aged 18 or older, matching the Australian gambling age. Anyone younger should close this tab now. Parents sharing a laptop, tablet or phone with children can switch on the content filters that ship with most browsers, operating systems and home routers to keep gambling sites out.
10. Help when it stops being a game
In short: free, private support is a phone call away, day or night.
Gambling Help Online counsellors take calls on 1800 858 858 and chat online at no cost, 24 hours a day. BetStop, the National Self-Exclusion Register, blocks you from every licensed Australian bookmaker in a single sign-up at betstop.gov.au. Offshore casinos sit outside BetStop, so if you have accounts with them, shut those accounts and ask your bank to stop gambling payments on your cards. Our responsible gambling page lists further services.
11. Copyright and trade marks
In short: a quote with a link is fine; copying whole pages is not.
The writing, tables, graphics and design of OzCasinos are the publisher's property except where a caption names a different owner. Photos licensed under Creative Commons show their author and licence underneath. Casino brands, their logos and game titles are other companies' marks, shown purely so readers know which product we mean. Quoting a couple of sentences, linked back to us, is welcome; reposting full articles or harvesting our lists by script needs our written approval.
12. How far our responsibility goes
In short: we answer for our own work, not for what a casino does.
Our pages are researched carefully yet offered as they stand, with no promise that every detail is whole, fresh and right. So far as the law permits, Halberdine Media Group Limited accepts no liability for loss you suffer by using OzCasinos, by acting on what it says, or through any dealing with an operator, such as lost deposits, withheld winnings, closed accounts or rewritten bonus rules. Your entitlements under the Australian Consumer Law, or under any other rule that a contract cannot switch off, remain untouched by this page.
13. Revisions
In short: check the updated date to know which wording applies.
This disclaimer gets revised whenever legislation, OzCasinos itself or our commercial deals change. A new version applies from the moment it goes live here, and the date under the page heading changes to match. If you keep reading OzCasinos after a revision, you have accepted it.
14. Reaching the publisher
In short: a single inbox gets you to the people accountable.
OzCasinos.org is published by Halberdine Media Group Limited, registered office Neptune House, Marina Bay, Gibraltar GX11 1AA. Questions about this disclaimer, fixes for a review and complaints about our content all go to [email protected]. Paste in the link of the page you mean. Refereeing a fight between you and a casino is beyond us, but what you tell us feeds into whether that casino keeps its place on our lists.