Advertiser Disclosure

How We Make Money

CasinoAlpha New Zealand operates as an affiliate marketing entity under Extremoo Marketing SRL (Company Registration: J23/6289/2017, VAT: RO38630895), and offers honest evaluations of licensed casino operators with international licenses that serve players from New Zealand. Our business model focuses on earning referral commissions from casino operators when New Zealand readers sign up by using our links and meet specific activity conditions that our partnership agreements define.

Commission Structure Details: When you click our casino links and register an account at an internationally-licensed operator accepting New Zealanders, we may receive a commission payment. These commission amounts vary from an operator to another, typically ranging from fixed Cost Per Acquisition (CPA) fees to a percentage of what the casino earns (Revenue Share). The important aspect: you pay nothing extra, since our commissions come straight from the casino’s marketing budget, and not from your deposits or losses.

Transparency for NZ Players: We clearly state our affiliate status on every page with casino links, meeting Fair Trading Act 1986 requirements for transparent business relationships. This disclosure appears before our readers see any promotional content. Thus, we are making sure of the informed consent throughout your browsing experience in compliance with New Zealand consumer protection standards.

How Affiliate Links Work

This is how our affiliate links work for the NZ players:

Technical Process

The moment you click a casino link on CasinoAlpha NZ, several technical processes take place in compliance with New Zealand privacy regulations. A tracking cookie (small data file) is placed in your browser with attributes including a unique tracking ID, a timestamp, and where you came from. This cookie typically lasts 30-90 days, depending on our partnership agreement, which we explain in our Privacy Policy to meet Privacy Act 2020 requirements.

Registration Tracking

If you register at the casino while the cookie is still active, the operator’s tracking system credits your signup to CasinoAlpha. Commission payment occurs on our side when you meet certain qualification criteria, which typically is making a minimum deposit in NZD (where supported) or wagering a certain amount as set by that casino’s affiliate programme rules.

No Additional Cost

The fact that users will find an affiliate link does not change pricing, bonus offers, or any terms presented to you. Casino costs remain exactly the same whether you access directly or through our referral links. Everything else related to NZD currency support, POLi payment availability, and New Zealand banking compatibility remains unchanged by our referral relationship.

What This Means for You

Reader Benefits

Our affiliate model provides value through very thorough, honest reviews of internationally-licensed casinos serving NZ players, funded by the casino partnerships rather than reader subscriptions. You access free content, such as detailed casino reviews with NZD focus, New Zealand payment method analysis, and expert guidance for players, without any payment barriers at all.

Our Quality Commitment

Our business will keep being sustainable as long as our readers from New Zealand trust us long-term. If we recommend poor casinos that do not have NZD support or mistreat NZ customers just to gain commission, readers leave, and revenue disappears. This means that it creates incentive alignment where honest recommendations serve both your interests and our business viability.

Independent Research

You receive unbiased evaluations that can help you avoid problematic operators, understand complex bonus terms, verify international licensing credibility (MGA, UKGC, Gibraltar, Curaçao), see which casinos support NZD and NZ payment methods, and make informed decisions based on our 47-factor methodology that we apply the same way, no matter the partnership status.

Our Editorial Independence

• Organisational Firewall: CasinoAlpha NZ keeps a strict separation between commercial partnerships and all of the editorial work. Our editorial team, led by our CEO, Tudor Turiceanu, holds final authority in terms of ratings, reviews, and content about casinos serving New Zealand players. The commercial teams that negotiate affiliate deals have zero input into editorial decisions.
• Proof of Independence: We keep documented proof that we’re independent, including partnership offers we’ve rejected from casinos that failed our quality standards, even though they offered substantial commission increases. We’ve published critical reviews of paying partners when service quality, NZD support, or treatment of NZ customers no longer had the same quality. We’ve kept low ratings for partner casinos despite financial pressure to improve scores, showing we put NZ player protection before commercial gain.
• Methodology Application: Every casino that serves New Zealand players goes through our 47-factor evaluation that covers international licensing credibility, security, payments (NZD support, POLi availability, NZ banking compatibility), games, bonuses, support (NZST availability), and user experience. We use this method the same way for everyone, meaning analysts doing reviews don’t know commission rates, preventing any bias, whether they realise it or not.

Commission Does NOT Influence Our Ratings

In our content and dedication, we put players first and do not get influenced by commission in our ratings.

• Real Examples

Some of our highest-rated operators serving New Zealand are not affiliate partners at all. Some partners that pay us receive average or below-average ratings when their NZD support, New Zealand payment options, or NZ player treatment is not valuable. This pattern proves that partnership status does not determine what ratings we give.

• Quality Control

Reviews need to be checked by two of our analysts, plus receive the CEO approval, who specifically looks at whether ratings match the documented evidence, including international license verification, and how well they work for NZ players, not business relationships. In those situations where ratings are not aligned with partnership interests, we document them and stick to our editorial judgement, no matter the revenue implications.

• Rejected Partnerships

We’ve declined offers from operators that wanted to pay premium commissions in exchange for guaranteed positive coverage, prominent placement, or hiding negative information. We’ve rejected partnerships with operators that did not have adequate NZD support or applied unfair terms to New Zealand players. These documented rejections show that editorial standards and protecting NZ players matter more than financial gain.

Our Relationship with Casino Operators

Partnership Scope: Overseas casinos (holding MGA, UKGC, Gibraltar, or Curaçao licences) that accept New Zealand players can partner with us for affiliate referrals.

Partnership Limitations: Operators cannot influence our ratings, purchase positive reviews, guarantee ranking positions, ask us to remove or improve negative details about NZD support or New Zealand service quality, or avoid our editorial independence in any manner.

Communication Boundaries: Partnership managers communicate only with commercial teams about business arrangements. Editorial staff who review casinos, write content for Kiwis, and give ratings don’t communicate with casinos about editorial matters. Technical questions (game counts, NZD availability, POLi support checks, license verification) go through formal channels that we document for transparency.

Partnership Termination: We end the partnerships when operators fail quality standards, fail our quality standards, treat NZ players unfairly, lose their international license, discriminate against NZ players with special terms, remove NZD support without warning, or try to influence our editorial content.

What We DON'T Do

Below, CasinoAlpha NZ explained the practices that do not represent us, as an organisation:

Prohibited Practices

• No Pay-for-Placement: Rankings come strictly from our methodology that includes licensing credibility and NZ compatibility, and not payment
• No Guaranteed Reviews: The operators cannot buy themselves positive coverage
• No Rating Manipulation: If the commission increases, this does not mean that the scores improve
• No Hidden Relationships: Partner and non-partner casinos are tested by CasinoAlpha equally for NZD support and service quality
• No Preferential Treatment: Partner and non-partner casinos evaluated equally for NZD support and NZ service quality
• No Hiding Bad News: Negative info, such as anything about license problems, NZD issues, or poor treatment of players, gets published regardless of partnerships
• No Currency Misrepresentation: We never falsely claim NZD support or exaggerate NZ payment options to make money

How We Enforce This

We apply these bans through editorial oversight, peer review processes, international license verification, and documented rejection of business requests that break these rules or NZ consumer protection standards.

How Our Independence Benefits You

There are some key benefits for the NZ readers who use our site, which we will detail:

1. Honest Warnings: You get real warnings about problematic operators even in situations where partnerships exist. We’ve flagged payment delays to NZ accounts, poor NZD support, bad POLi setup, unfair bonus terms, terrible customer service during NZ hours, and license concerns with paying partners, and all the information you need to protect yourself as a NZ player.
2. Quality Focus: What our recommendations focus on is the international license credibility, player safety, NZD support, NZ payment options, fair terms, and quality operations, rather than commission potential. Top-rated casinos earn their scores through performance, license transparency, and treating NZ players well, not payment.
3. Long-term Trust: We build credibility through accurate reviews over the years, and in no way quick profits from misleading recommendations. What this long-term approach really means is that our success depends on keeping the NZ player satisfied; if we inform New Zealand players wrong, they stop trusting us and, hence, our business fails.
4. NZD and Payment Focus: Our independent evaluation focused on NZD currency support and New Zealand payment methods (POLi, bank transfers) that matter to NZ players, no matter if these features affect what we earn.

Regulatory Compliance

Fair Trading Act 1986

We, at CasinoAlpha NZ, comply with Fair Trading Act requirements that ban any misleading and deceptive business conduct, including clearly disclosing our commercial relationships and transparently showing our affiliate status when marketing to New Zealand consumers.

Commerce Commission Standards

Our disclosure practices meet Commerce Commission of New Zealand guidelines for honest advertising and transparent business relationships, making sure NZ players get accurate information about our affiliate business model.

Privacy Act 2020

Our cookie usage and tracking practices follow the Privacy Act 2020, with full disclosure in our Privacy Policy about what information we collect, use, and share regarding NZ users.

Consumer Protection

We follow the Consumer Guarantees Act 1993 principles of fair dealing and transparent information when providing content and casino recommendations to NZ consumers.

Updates to This Policy

Last Updated: November 2025

Review Schedule: We review this policy yearly and update it when business practices, NZ regulatory requirements, Commerce Commission guidance, or affiliate relationships change. Big changes get prominent notification, while minor clarifications update without special notice.

Regulatory Monitoring: We monitor very closely Commerce Commission guidance, Department of Internal Affairs gambling policy developments, and NZ consumer protection standards, updating this policy to stay compliant with NZ consumer protection requirements.

In case you have any questions about this disclosure, use the form on the Contact Us page | Subject: NZ Advertiser Disclosure Inquiry

NZ Consumer Support: Commerce Commission – www.comcom.govt.nz

Problem Gambling Foundation: 0800 664 262

Policy Authority: Maintained by Extremoo Marketing SRL under Fair Trading Act 1986 and New Zealand consumer protection law compliance.