How We Verify Gambling Regulations
How we check regulator websites, official market directories, current standards and dated government sources before publishing regulatory claims.
Regulatory information changes. We record the source and date so readers can see whether a claim is current or historical.
Tier 1 — legislation
Current consolidated statutes, regulations and official legislative publications.
Tier 2 — regulator and provincial market bodies
Official standards, operator directories, bulletins, complaint processes and player-protection guidance.
Tier 3 — operator documents
Operator terms can explain a particular account or promotion but are not used as the sole source for a regulator-level legal claim.
Third-party commentary
Useful for discovery and comparison, but material legal or authorization claims should be traced back to primary sources wherever possible.
Update triggers
Launches, exits, new advertising rules, self-exclusion changes, regulator bulletins and legislation are triggers for re-verification.
Uncertainty
Where primary sources do not resolve a point, the site should say the point is uncertain rather than filling the gap with a confident generalization.