Editorial policy at Secure Gambling Sites Canada

The editorial basis for this site is that security in gambling is measurable and testable. We do not describe a gambling site as secure because it uses the word in its marketing. We look for specific, verifiable evidence at each layer and score what we find. This document explains how that process works.

Members of our editorial team bring backgrounds in cybersecurity evaluation, financial product testing, and online gambling coverage. We conduct reviews from a player's position, not from a briefing document or a press invitation. Our test accounts are funded from our own resources, and our evaluation findings are not pre-shared with operators.

Security assessment in our reviews covers multiple layers. We check the encryption standard on the platform's login and banking pages. We confirm the licence is live through the issuing authority's public register. We review the site's data-handling practices against what a reasonable player would expect. We also test customer support with a security-related question to gauge the team's knowledge and responsiveness.

This website is funded in part through affiliate commissions. When a reader follows a link from our pages and creates an account at a gambling site, we may receive a referral fee from that operator. We make this commercial relationship explicit because it is relevant to how you interpret our recommendations. The commission rate offered by any given operator is not considered by the people who write and score our reviews, and it has no bearing on where that operator appears in our rankings.

The ranking table on this page reflects our most recent evaluation of each listed platform. Where security conditions change — through a reported data incident, a change in the operator's technology infrastructure, or the withdrawal of a gaming licence — we update our assessment outside the normal review schedule.

Corrections to published content are applied promptly and marked with the date they were made. When a correction would have changed our recommendation had it been known at the time of review, we describe the change explicitly. We do not remove pages to escape criticism, and no operator can pay for a revision to their security score.

All decisions about which sites to review, how to score them, and where to rank them are made by the editorial team alone. No operator relationship confers any editorial advantage, and commercial agreements are never referenced in the review and scoring process.

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