Who pays for Behind the Doors

Paid links appear on the home page and nowhere else. There are three of them, each marked Ad. One sits in the menu, one in a block just below the first screen, and one near the end of the page.

All three lead to the same online casino partner. When a reader follows one, the site earns a commission. That commission is how Behind the Doors is paid for. Each link carries the Ad mark so it reads as a paid link, not as editorial. The partner can change.

Inner pages, including every casino page, carry no paid links. Links to venues, regulators and help services are not paid either. A reader can use the casino pages from start to finish without meeting an ad.

Venues do not pay this site. Neither do casino operators, the province or the help services named on these pages. Links to venues, regulators and help services are there for the reader and carry no payment. Readers get nothing from the site either: it offers no rewards of any kind.

Behind the Doors is not a casino. It takes no bets and has no accounts or cashier. There is nothing to deposit and nothing to win here. It is an independent guide to the eight casinos of the Edmonton area, and it is not affiliated with any venue or operator.

In Alberta, anyone who advertises an online gaming site must follow AGLC's standards. An ad must carry a responsible gambling message. It must not target minors or use people who appear to be minors, and it must not link gaming to attractiveness or status. What an operator gives new players may be advertised only on its own site, so nothing of that kind appears here.

The legal gambling age in Alberta is 18. Readers can check any online operator in AiGC's directory of registered iGaming sites at abigaming.ca/players/registered-igaming-sites. An operator missing from that directory is not regulated. Approved operators display the AiGC logo.