Clubsweepstakes is an independent editorial review site for US sweepstakes casinos. This page explains how we make editorial decisions and how we keep them separate from commercial pressure. If you find any practice we describe here violated in a published review, please tell us.
How we fund our work
Our editorial operation is funded by affiliate commissions. When a reader registers at an operator through a tracking link on this site, that operator pays us a one-time or recurring commission. These commissions cover salaries, the cost of funding test accounts with our own money for end-to-end testing, infrastructure, and editorial overhead.
Affiliate commissions do not:
- Influence which operators we cover
- Determine our rankings
- Bias the rating we assign
- Grant operators advance access to drafts
- Allow operators to suppress negative findings
How we choose what to cover
We cover every US-facing sweepstakes operator we can identify. Coverage priority is determined by reader search demand (volume of organic queries for the operator’s name) and by editorial newsworthiness (new launches, regulatory changes, redemption controversies). Affiliate commission rates do not affect coverage priority.
How we test
Each operator we review receives a fresh, real-money account funded by our own money. We complete registration, KYC, at least one purchase, and at least one Sweeps Coins redemption attempt before publishing. We time each step (registration, KYC clearance, first redemption clearance) and document the result. Our published testing methodology covers the full protocol.
How we cite facts
Whenever a fact in a review can be sourced to an authoritative document — an operator’s Terms of Service, Sweepstakes Rules, IRS publication, state regulatory filing, or independent auditor report — we link to that source. We do not cite competitor review sites as authoritative sources. We do not cite affiliate-marketing pages as authoritative sources.
How we handle conflicts of interest
If any editorial team member holds a financial interest in an operator we cover (beyond the affiliate-commission structure that applies to every operator), they recuse themselves from that operator’s coverage and another team member writes the review. If an operator employs an immediate family member of an editorial team member, the same recusal applies.
How we issue corrections
When we publish a factual error and we discover or are told about it, we correct it. Material corrections include a dated correction note appended to the bottom of the review. Minor corrections (typos, broken links, outdated dates) are made silently. Either way, the editorial team member who made the change is recorded in our internal log.
How we handle pressure from operators
Operators occasionally request changes to published reviews. We evaluate each request as a factual claim. If the operator can show that a fact we published is wrong, we correct it. If the operator’s complaint is that a fact we published makes them look bad, we do not change it.
We do not allow operators to preview drafts. We do not negotiate the rating we assign. We do not remove honest negatives at an operator’s request.
How we handle reader-submitted tips
If a reader sends us a tip about an operator (a stuck redemption, a denied account, a state-restriction enforcement), we treat it confidentially. We do not publish the reader’s name or contact details without explicit consent. We use the tip as a starting point for our own investigation; we do not publish reader claims as fact without verification.
How we use AI
We use language-model tools as part of our drafting workflow — for outline generation, terminology consistency checks, and prose tightening. Every published review is read end-to-end by a human editor before publication, every numerical claim is verified by a human against a primary source, and every recommendation reflects human editorial judgment. We do not auto-publish AI-generated drafts.
Who is responsible
Editorial direction of Clubsweepstakes is the responsibility of Louis Rhoades, Senior Sweepstakes Casino Editor. Questions about this policy or about specific editorial decisions should go to [email protected].