How we work
This page describes what we publish on icreekside.com, and what that means for you as a reader.
What this site is
icreekside.com publishes news and explainers; it is not a primary source. Everything here is a secondary account: a summary, a report or an explanation of material that exists elsewhere. The authority sits with the original document — the law itself, the text of a regulation, a regulator’s published decision, an operator’s own terms, a court judgment, an official announcement. We point readers toward the position as we understand it; we do not replace the documents that establish it.
If you need to rely on something — for a decision, a dispute, a compliance question or anything with money or legal consequences attached — read the primary source and, where appropriate, take advice from someone qualified to give it. An explainer is a starting point, not a substitute.
Why timing matters
Gambling rules change often, and an article describes the position at the time it was written. Licensing conditions are amended. Tax treatment shifts. Advertising restrictions tighten or loosen. Regulators publish new guidance, and operators change their terms in response. A page that was accurate when published can describe a position that no longer holds.
So when you read anything on this site, read it as a snapshot. Check when it was written. Then check whether the underlying rule still reads the same way. Where a page names a regulator, a statute or a piece of guidance, that name is the thing to look up — it will tell you the current position, and this page will not.
Mistakes
Published work contains errors: a figure transposed, a rule described imprecisely, a link pointing at the wrong document, a sentence that was true once and is not true now. We would rather know.
To report an error, use the contact page. It helps if you say which page you are writing about, which part of it you think is wrong, and — where you have one — what you believe the correct position is, with a source we can look at. Specific reports are easier to act on than general ones.
That is the whole of it. We have not set out standards, procedures or undertakings beyond what is written above, and you should not read any into this page.