Official legal and regulatory material
Used for regulatory context, while recognising jurisdiction, dates and scope.
Research standards
xMaat Evidence and Verification Policy
How xMaat evaluates operator claims, official terms, screenshots, regulatory information, third-party sources and time-sensitive betting data.
Clear principlesLocal contextOpen accountability
Purpose and scope
Claims should match the evidence behind them
xMaat uses evidence to describe what an operator offers, how a condition works and whether a detail applies in a particular country. The strength of the wording should reflect the strength, relevance and recency of the source.
A source can be genuine yet insufficient. For example, an international licence statement does not prove local authorisation, and a successful deposit does not prove the withdrawal route has identical limits.
Core principles
Evidence hierarchy
Use these points as the practical standard for interpreting this policy.
Operator terms and interfaces
Useful for current offers, account flows, cashier information and product availability.
Direct screenshots and observations
Useful when dated, accurately captioned and stripped of private account information.
Independent primary documentation
Research papers, payment-provider documentation and recognised support resources.
Third-party comparisons
Helpful for discovery or corroboration, but not automatically treated as authoritative.
User reports
Signals worth investigating; not published as established fact without sufficient corroboration.
Important detail
Evidence must be evaluated for
- Relevance to the exact country, currency and product
- Date and likelihood that the information changed
- Whether the source is independent or commercially interested
- Whether the headline agrees with the detailed terms
- Whether access is mistaken for legality or authorisation
- Whether a screenshot shows a general interface or one account state
- Whether another reliable source materially contradicts the claim
In practice
Verification labels in practice
Verified
Supported by sufficiently relevant evidence for the wording used.
Reported
Attributed to a source but not independently established by xMaat.
Requires verification
Plausible or previously observed, but current local evidence is incomplete.
Varies by country
Global information exists, but local values or availability differ.
Research queue
The topic is planned but not yet ready to receive a live destination or definitive claim.
Related xMaat pages
Continue with the relevant policy or resource
The standards pages work together and should be interpreted consistently.