Legal notice

This is a comparison site. It reads what gambling operators publish about themselves - user agreements, AML policies, KYC clauses, restricted-country lists, regulators' licence records - and sets those documents side by side.

We run no games, hold no funds and take no bets, and we hold no gambling licence because we do none of the things one permits. Some links here are commercial, which is how the site is funded; that does not change what a document says. We also publish our gaps: an empty field in our data means we have not read the document, not that the answer is nothing.

A gambling licence is an authorisation issued by a regulator to a specific company, permitting it to offer specified services under stated conditions within a defined scope. It is a relationship between a regulator and a business.

It is not addressed to you. A licence grants a player no permission, does not certify that using the service is lawful from any place, and creates no right to be accepted as a customer. When a licence record names territories it does not extend to, it is describing the limits of the operator's authorisation - not ruling on the residents of those places.

The distinction is easy to lose, because a seal in a footer reads as reassurance while asserting something narrow: that on some date, a named authority authorised a named company to do certain things in a certain scope. Different authorities impose different obligations, so two operators can both display a valid licence and offer materially different protection.

Almost every question about gambling and legality is really one of two questions wearing the same words. The first: what do this operator's licence and terms say about accepting customers from a given country? That is factual, answered by reading published documents - a licence's territorial scope, a restricted-country list, a geo-blocking statement in an AML policy. It requires no legal expertise, only careful reading, and it is what the rest of this site does.

The second: what is my own legal position where I live? That depends on the law of your jurisdiction, which varies by country and often by region, changes without warning, and applies differently depending on facts nobody publishing a website can know. It is a question for a qualified adviser, not for a comparison page.

Confusing the two produces the genre's standard errors: treating an operator's silence as permission, and treating its willingness to accept a registration as a statement about the reader's own position.

Plenty of gambling sites publish a table of countries with a green tick or a red cross beside each. We do not, for three reasons. Competence: a verdict on whether an individual may lawfully place a bet is a legal opinion, and we are not qualified to give one. Accuracy: national positions shift, and a table published once is wrong within months while continuing to look authoritative. And relevance: a tick beside a country says nothing about a reader's own age, residence or chosen product.

So our country page reports something narrower and checkable instead: whether an operator's licence names a territory as outside its scope, and whether an operator's own terms name that country in a restricted list. Those are facts about documents. What follows from them for you is not something we will assert.

Whatever the documents say, responsibility for a decision to gamble rests with the person making it - including checking your own position before registering. Several operators in our comparison set publish terms allowing them to close an account and withhold a balance where they determine a customer played from a place they exclude.

Gambling is for adults and carries real risk of harm: money lost is lost, and for some people the activity becomes compulsive. If it is causing difficulty for you or someone close to you, support services exist in most countries and are worth contacting early. Self-exclusion schemes are protective mechanisms and we treat them as such: we do not describe ways around a self-exclusion register, or around an operator's geo-block.

Every factual page here carries the date its facts were checked, because a licence status, a restricted-country list and a verification clause are live values. Where a claim matters to a decision you are about to make, re-read the operator's current page rather than our record of it.

Our sources are the operators' own published documents and the public registers of licensing authorities, never other review sites. If something here is wrong, we would rather know: a correction that comes with a link to the document will be made regardless of whether the operator concerned is a commercial partner.