Verification methodology
Published Aug 15, 2026 · Updated Sep 6, 2026
FreeSweeps exists to answer one question: what can I claim for free right now? That answer is only useful if every record shows where its facts came from and when they were last checked. This page explains exactly how that works.
Source hierarchy
We rank evidence in this order:
- Operator pages — the casino’s own website, help center, or promotional terms. Highest confidence; labeled Operator source.
- Operator social accounts — official posts on the casino’s verified profiles, used mainly for social drops.
- Independent corroboration — at least two independent secondary sources (established publications) reporting the same fact. Labeled Corroborated reports.
- Single reports — one secondary source or player report. Never enough on its own to call something verified; the record stays Unconfirmed.
Strongest
- Operator pages
The casino’s own website, help center, or promotional terms.
Operator source
- Official operator social accounts
Official posts on the casino’s verified profiles, used mainly for social drops.
- At least two independent corroborating sources
Established publications reporting the same fact.
Corroborated reports
Verification boundary
- Single report
One secondary source or player report. Never enough on its own to call something verified.
Unconfirmed
Weakest
Complete text equivalent
- Operator pages — labeled Operator source.
- Official operator social accounts.
- At least two independent corroborating sources — labeled Corroborated reports.
- Single report — remains Unconfirmed.
Tier 3 is two or more independent sources. The two cards plus an ellipsis mean “at least two,” not three required. A single report stays Unconfirmed.
A competing affiliate site is never the sole source for a reward amount, claim frequency, expiration, eligibility, or purchase requirement. When operator sites block automated retrieval, we capture the operator page through its search-indexed content and say so in the verification note.
What a record’s state means
Every record carries two separate facts, and we keep them apart on purpose. The first is what we found when we last looked. The second is how long ago that was. A record can be a perfectly good finding and still be weeks old, so neither fact is allowed to stand in for the other.
What we found
- Confirmed
- Our last check matched what we already had on file.
- Amount unconfirmed
- A reward is recorded, but no confirmed amount is published. Read the record's dated evidence and withholding reason.
- Changed
- The operator changed this reward. The previous figure is kept below so the change is visible.
- Sources disagree
- Our sources do not agree on this reward, so we are not publishing an amount as confirmed until it is settled.
- Ended
- This reward is over. It is kept here because the record and its history stay readable.
- Not checked yet
- We do not have enough to state this reward's current terms.
Three of those states publish no figure at all. That is deliberate: where the operator did not state an amount on our last check, where our sources disagree, and where we have nothing solid on file, printing a number would mean inventing one or reusing one that has stopped being true.
How fresh that is
- Checked — we read the source within the last 24 hours.
- Checked, with an older date — read within the last 7 days. The figure stays, carrying the date we read it.
- Due a recheck — older than 7 days. The record stays visible and says so. Due a recheck is not the same as wrong: it means we have not looked recently, nothing more.
- Not checked — no source has been captured for this record yet.
Checking is a snapshot, not live monitoring, and we never imply monitoring we do not do. We aim to re-check daily rewards every 24 hours and everything else weekly, but that is our operating target, not a promise about any individual record — the date on the record is the promise. The Data as of time on each feed is the newest check in the whole dataset.
Expiration and recurring windows
Recurring daily rewards reset on the operator’s own 24-hour clock, usually measured from your previous claim — not at midnight. We display a UTC tracking window as a convention and label it as such; your in-app timer always governs. Drops and one-off promotions carry their own expiry, which we record when the source states it.
Append-only history
The data model separates campaigns (the standing reward program) from occurrences (what was observed in a given window) and verifications (who checked what, when, and where). When a reward changes, nothing is overwritten: a new occurrence and verification are appended. That is why reward pages can show honest change history.
Campaign
The standing reward program. It is not overwritten when later windows are recorded.
Occurrence 1
What was observed in an earlier window. It stays visible after later rows are added.
- VerificationWho checked what, when, and where.
- Corrective verificationAn additional verification. It does not replace the earlier one.
Occurrence 2
A later window. It is appended; it does not replace Occurrence 1.
- VerificationIts own check, recorded against this occurrence.
Later occurrences continue to the right — still appended.
Complete text equivalent
- Campaign
- The standing reward program. History is never overwritten in place.
- Occurrence
- A dated observation of that campaign. A later occurrence is a new row. The earlier occurrence remains.
- Verification
- Who checked the fact, when, and against which source. Each occurrence can have more than one.
- Corrective verification
- A published correction is another verification appended to history. It is not a fourth stored entity and it does not erase the verification it corrects. The inbound submission queue is separate from this published graph.
Corrections
Wrong amounts, dead links, and changed rules get fixed by appending a corrective verification — the mistake stays visible in history rather than being silently edited away. Anyone can report a correction; submissions are reviewed against sources before records change.
Affiliate treatment
FreeSweeps currently has no active affiliate destinations. Visit-casino links go to the operator's own site with no tracking parameters or partner IDs. If affiliate relationships are enabled later, those links will be labeled Sponsored and this page will say so in the present tense. That mechanism exists; it is not in use now. Three rules keep that honest:
- Commercial links are marked sponsored in both the label and the link relation.
- Affiliate relationships never affect what we track, what we verify, or how rewards are described. Casinos with no affiliate relationship are tracked the same as any other.
- Reward facts are never sourced from affiliate copy on this site — only from the evidence hierarchy above.
More detail in the affiliate disclosure.
What we refuse to do
- Never list a purchase-required offer as free.
- Never imply that free coins guarantee a prize or cashout.
- Never manufacture fake urgency (“ends in 10 minutes!!”) around standing rewards.
- Never fill pages with unsourced or mass-generated prose.