About Us

Who we are and why we do what we do.

Our Mission

DairyNZ Schools was founded with a simple goal: to help New Zealand players make informed decisions about online casinos. The online gambling landscape can be overwhelming, with hundreds of casinos competing for your attention. We cut through the noise with honest, thorough reviews based on real testing.

What We Do

Our team personally signs up, deposits, plays, and withdraws at every casino we review. We evaluate each site across key criteria that matter most to NZ players:

  • Licensing & Safety — Is the casino properly regulated and does it use encryption to protect your data?
  • Bonus Fairness — Are the welcome offers genuinely valuable, or are they buried under unreasonable wagering requirements?
  • Payout Speed — How quickly can you actually get your winnings into your bank account?
  • Game Selection — Does the casino offer a strong range of pokies, table games, and live dealer titles?
  • NZ Compatibility — Can you deposit in NZD? Are local payment methods like POLi supported?

Our Values

Independence

We are not owned or operated by any casino. Our reviews reflect our honest assessment based on real testing. When we recommend a casino, it's because we genuinely believe it offers a good experience for NZ players.

Transparency

We clearly disclose that we may earn commissions when you sign up through our links. This is how we fund our operations, but it never influences our ratings. We've given poor reviews to casinos with high-paying affiliate programmes and top marks to casinos with lower commissions.

Responsible Gambling

We believe gambling should be entertaining, not harmful. We actively promote responsible gambling practices and provide resources for anyone who may be experiencing problems. Every review includes information about a casino's responsible gambling tools.

Our Team

DairyNZ Schools is run by a small NZ-based editorial team. Two people are publicly accountable for the content on this site:

Hunter Campbell — Lead Casino Reviewer

Based in Mount Maunganui. Four years and 52 sites of hands-on, real-money pokies testing. Hunter signs up, deposits NZ$50–$150, plays through the bonus terms, and tests withdrawals at every casino before writing a single word of the review.

Maia Anderson — Compliance & Payments Editor

Based in Auckland. Eight years across NZ fintech and gambling compliance. Maia fact-checks every review and guide before publication — verifying licence claims, bonus T&Cs, payout-speed timestamps, and regulatory references against primary sources.

Editorial standards

We commit to four standards on every page we publish:

  • Hands-on testing. No recommendation appears on this site without Hunter testing the operator with real money. If we haven't tested a site, we say so.
  • Independent fact-checking. Every page is reviewed by Maia before it goes live. The same person who writes does not approve.
  • Source-cited claims. Licence numbers, bonus terms, payout times, and regulatory statements are checked against primary sources (operator T&Cs, the Department of Internal Affairs, the Gambling Helpline, the Problem Gambling Foundation).
  • Corrections in public. If we get something wrong, we fix it and note what changed. Tell us if you spot an error.

How we make money

When you click through to a casino from this site and sign up, the operator pays us a commission. That commission is how we fund the testing, writing, and editorial work — it costs you nothing extra and changes nothing about your bonus or terms. It does not influence our ratings. We have downgraded sites that offered higher commissions and recommended sites that paid less, because the only ranking signal is performance against the methodology Hunter and Maia agree on.

Get in Touch

Have questions, suggestions, or feedback? We'd love to hear from you. Visit our contact page to get in touch with the team.