Who BitStarz is behind the bonus: the company, number, register

The bonus terms on this site are quoted at length, and nearly every clause in them ends in a discretion. Clause 3.26 decides whether a code works. Clause 3.15 decides what counts as abuse. Clause 3.7 starts a clock. All three belong to a company, and the company is not named anywhere in the promotional copy.

What the certificate says

The Curaçao certificate portal returns a single statement for this domain, and it is worth having in the words it uses.

The domain bitstarz.com is operated by Gareton B.V., a company incorporated under the laws of Curaçao with company number 160656, licensed by the Curaçao Gaming Authority to offer games of chance under licence number OGL/2024/165/0185, in accordance with the National Ordinance on Games of Chance — Landsverordening op de kansspelen, P.B. 2024, no. 157. The licence was granted on 8 July 2024, and its current status is Active.

Five separate facts sit in that sentence: a company name, a company number, a permit number, a statute, and a status with a grant date. Each of them came from the issuing body rather than from the operator, which is the whole reason this page prefers the register to the footer.

Why the counterparty belongs on a site about promo codes

Because a promotion is a contractual offer, and the party making it is the party that decides whether it has been accepted.

Read clause 3.26 again with a name attached and it changes shape. It is not the website deciding that a code was used on an ineligible promotion. It is Gareton B.V., under a contract Gareton B.V. wrote, applying an eligibility test whose country component is not published. The discretion is the same either way; naming the holder of it is what turns a piece of website copy into a commitment by an identifiable company.

The same applies to every other operator on this site, and the table carries the company name and permit for each of them for that reason.

What the entry settles, and what it does not

It settles who the counterparty is. That is the strongest thing on this page and it is genuinely useful, because a promotional page names nobody and a footer can name a trading style rather than a company.

It settles that an authority permitted that company to offer games of chance, on the date it was granted.

It does not describe the moment a reader deposits. A register entry is dated. Permissions are granted, transferred, renewed and withdrawn without any announcement a customer would see, and the operator's own pages look identical throughout. One of the eleven rows in the table on this site carries a Curaçao entry with the status Revoked, and it is printed as read rather than dropped, precisely because that is the finding a person checking paperwork came for.

It does not describe conduct. An authority saying a company holds a permission is not saying it credits promotions promptly, publishes its ceilings, or answers complaints.

And it settles nothing about a bonus. Whether a particular offer reaches a particular account is decided by the bonus terms, not by the permit, and the bonus terms are quoted clause by clause at the terms themselves.

The two things the terms describe and do not measure

Identity is the first. The terms establish KYC as an obligatory player verification procedure and reserve the right to require proof of identity, proof of payment and proof of address, plus further documentation at the operator's sole discretion or during deposits.

Read that as somebody with a balance waiting and it answers a different question from the one being asked. It says which documents can be demanded, which is worth knowing, and that the demand may come at any time, which is honest. It does not say at what point. Five operators in a hundred read for the wider library attach a figure to that moment; this one is not among them.

Money out is the second. No general ceiling on what may leave an account in a stated period appears anywhere in what was read, so the document that is precise about a wagering multiple and a stake limit says nothing at all about the size of a payout.

Both blanks have the same shape as clause 3.5's missing country list: a power described in full, and the point at which it operates left out. Three withheld triggers in one set of documents is a pattern rather than an oversight, and the third of them is set out at the two country lists.

What the operator does publish about itself

Two counts, both taken from pages the operator maintains for the purpose.

Sixty-two studio names sit in its own game-providers index. That is a count of suppliers rather than of titles, and operators group and rebrand studios differently, so it measures disclosure rather than depth — but it is countable from outside by anybody who cares to count, which is more than most figures in this trade manage.

Zero promo codes sit anywhere on its own pages. Four documents were read end to end — the bonus terms at 15,145 characters, the general terms at 42,876, the promotions page and the bonuses page — and across all four the operator prints none of its own. That result, and what the terms carry instead, is the subject of the whole site.

How the wagering multiples across the comparison set differ once the bet ceilings are put beside them is at eight multiples, and two empty cells.