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What the desk does: reads the terms, checks the licence and ranks UK sites on what is written in them.

From the desk

About the desk

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We cover one thing: online casinos licensed by the UK Gambling Commission. 260 operator reviews, a working shortlist of 15 UKGC-licensed sites and 1471 pages in all, for players in the United Kingdom. Every figure comes from two places and no others — the Commission’s public licence register and the operators’ own published pages — and no casino goes on a list until it has passed all 12 checks.

Whose desk this is
Wavequarry Networks B.V., Dr. M.J. Hugenholtzweg 25, Willemstad, Curaçao. Post for the desk: [email protected]. The company operates no games and has never applied for a gambling licence, because it has nothing to license.
What this site covers
Online casinos licensed by the UK Gambling Commission, for players in the United Kingdom.
How much of it there is
260 operator reviews, 15 UKGC-licensed casinos in the working shortlist, 1471 pages in all.
Where the figures come from
The Commission’s public licence register and the operators’ own published pages. Nothing else.
What we check
12 points on every casino, listed on how we rate.
How the site is paid
Some links to casinos pay us a commission. It is paid whatever position the casino holds, and the order comes from the checks. Every detail of that arrangement sits on who pays the desk.
What we are not
Not an operator, not a licensee and not a play-and-review blog: we read records, we do not gamble for you.
If a figure is stale
Write in and it gets checked. Each page shows the date of its last check.

The ethics code we follow

Statement of Adherence to the SPJ Code of Ethics

We did not write our own rulebook: reviews on OwnACasino follow the SPJ Code of Ethics published by the Society of Professional Journalists. In practice that means facts checked before they go out, responsible gambling put ahead of any offer, ratings set by the desk rather than by operators, and corrections made in the open. The commitment is set out in a statement signed on behalf of Wavequarry Networks B.V.. It is a self-declaration — the SPJ issues no certificates and does not review sites.

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