Safe & legal

Machine-made advice cannot make an unlicensed operator safe, so the legal question is settled before any prediction is read. This section keeps licensing apart from forecasting.

Sites described as trusted or legal come under review, as do secure apps and every phrase of the “not on GAMSTOP” family. Such wording points to operators outside the Great Britain licence and offers no real selling point.

Section 33 of the Gambling Act 2005 makes it an offence for an operator to provide gambling facilities in Great Britain without the licence the Act requires. For the customer, no offence of simply betting on such a site has been found; what disappears is GAMSTOP, the Commission’s complaints route and approved dispute resolution. Licensed operators verify identity before the first bet.

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