Funding & Independence
Somebody pays for every site that costs money to run, and a reader deciding whether to trust a payout claim deserves to know who pays for this one. The short version: commission from some of the outbound links, and nothing else.
Commission, stated plainly
Some links from this site to gambling platforms are commercial. If a reader follows one of those links and opens an account, Stone Family Support may be paid a commission by that platform. The reader pays nothing extra, and the terms of the account are exactly the same as they would be arriving at the platform directly.
That arrangement is standard across the sector and it is stated here because a disclosure buried in a footer is not a disclosure. It is the only revenue this site takes: no paid guest posts, no sponsored articles dressed as editorial, no fee for a mention, and no payment from anyone to remove or soften something already published.
Which links earn it
Commercial links point to gambling operators. Everything else on the site — links to regulators, to helplines, to a platform’s own terms and conditions, and to other pages here — earns nothing and exists because it is the useful place to send a reader next.
A reader who would rather not use a commercial link never has to. Every platform mentioned here can be reached by typing its name into a search engine, and doing so costs the reader nothing and changes nothing about what they get.
What the money cannot move
A commercial relationship does not buy a claim. It does not change what a platform’s withdrawal terms say, and it is those documents — not a marketing brief — that every piece here is checked against. If an operator’s caps are restrictive, its fees are unusual or its verification requirements are heavier than advertised, that goes in the piece whether or not a commercial arrangement exists.
It also does not buy silence. No commission agreement includes a right of review over anything published here, and a request to remove an accurate statement is declined regardless of who makes it. If honest coverage ends a commercial relationship, the coverage stays and the relationship goes.
What commission does pay for is the time to read long, tedious terms documents properly — which is the entire product.
The conflict this creates, named out loud
Being paid when readers sign up at gambling platforms creates an obvious incentive to make signing up look attractive. Pretending otherwise would be worse than useless. Three habits keep that incentive in check, and readers are entitled to hold the site to them.
First, nothing here is framed as encouragement to gamble; the coverage assumes a reader has already decided and is now trying to avoid a nasty surprise at withdrawal. Second, every piece is checked against documents that can be opened independently, so a reader is never asked to take a conclusion on trust. Third, the responsible-gambling material on playing within your means is deliberately prominent rather than tucked away, including self-exclusion routes that end the commercial relationship entirely.
Reading the site with that in mind
The sensible way to use any commercially funded site — this one included — is to treat it as a shortcut to the right questions rather than a substitute for asking them. Take the checks described on each page, apply them to the platform’s live terms yourself, and let the documents settle it.
Questions about funding, or about a specific link, can go to [email protected]. The method behind the coverage is set out on how we verify a withdrawal claim.