Affiliate Disclosure

Transparency and honesty are core values at meerkatnz.com. We believe in providing our readers with clear, unbiased, and practical information to help you find the best online gambling sites in New Zealand. To maintain our website and keep our content free of charge, we participate in affiliate marketing programs.

This disclosure details how our affiliate partnerships work, how they affect your experience, and our commitment to honest reporting.

1. Affiliate Partnerships and Commissions

meerkatnz.com earns commissions when you click on certain outbound links to third-party online casino and gambling operators and subsequently register an account or make a deposit. These are affiliate links that allow our partners to track that you arrived from our site. Clicking these links incurs no extra cost to you; in fact, our relationships with operators often allow us to negotiate exclusive bonuses or welcome promotions for our New Zealand readers.

2. Editorial Independence and Integrity

While we receive financial compensation from affiliate partnerships, this commercial relationship does not influence our editorial decisions, casino ratings, or reviews. Our review team evaluates operators based on strict, objective criteria, including NZ-friendly banking methods, licensing, game variety, payout speeds, and customer support.

We do not accept payment to write positive reviews for substandard platforms. If a casino fails to meet our safety and quality standards, we will rate it accordingly or refuse to list it on meerkatnz.com, regardless of any potential commercial gain.

3. Identifying Affiliate and Sponsored Links

We want you to always be aware of when a commercial link is present. You can identify affiliate links across meerkatnz.com in the following ways:

4. Regulatory Compliance (New Zealand)

We operate in alignment with the fair trading and advertising standards relevant to New Zealand consumers, adhering to the principles outlined by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) of New Zealand, including the ASA Guidance Note on Identification of Advertisements and the Code for Advertising and Marketing Communications. We are committed to ensuring all commercial communications, sponsored content, and affiliate relationships are clearly distinguishable from editorial content, and we strictly adhere to New Zealand's Fair Trading Act 1986 regarding truthful representations.

5. Reader Responsibility and Safe Gambling

While we conduct thorough research to ensure our reviews are accurate at the time of publication (last updated for 2026), third-party operators frequently change their terms, bonus structures, and game offerings. It is your responsibility to verify all terms and conditions, wagering requirements, and local legal requirements directly on the operator's website before creating an account or depositing funds.

Gambling involves financial risk and may become addictive. You must be at least 18 years old (or 20 years old for physical venues in NZ) to gamble. Always play responsibly and never bet more than you can afford to lose. If you or someone you know is struggling with gambling, free and confidential support is available in New Zealand via the Gambling Helpline at 0800 654 655 or by texting 8006.

Last updated: January 2026