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Markets · United Kingdom

The most prescriptive of the five, and the most predictable

Great Britain asks for identity before gambling, age before free-play, a national exclusion scheme on every session, and financial checks that scale with what the player is losing. It is demanding and it is written down, which makes it the easiest of the five to build against.

  • UKGCsupervisor
  • GAMSTOPexclusion scheme
  • Free-playinside the age perimeter

The regime

Who supervises and what answers the exclusion question

Supervisor
Gambling Commission (UKGC)

Licence conditions and codes of practice govern remote operators; this page describes platform behaviour, not the conditions themselves.

Self-exclusion source
GAMSTOP

The national online self-exclusion scheme for Great Britain, queried directly at registration and at login.

Age floor applied
18

Configured per market in your policy and versioned with it.

Processing region
United Kingdom or European Union

Chosen once per operator. Data does not leave the chosen region.

In this market

What the platform does differently here

Age

Floor
18
Scope
real money + free-play

The perimeter includes free-play

Several regimes stop at real money. Great Britain extends the expectation to free-to-play products, so the age check has to sit in front of the demo funnel as well as the cashier.

  • Age is proven before deposit, before free-play and before bonus funds
  • The same check, the same evidence bundle, triggered earlier in the funnel

Exclusion

At
registration + login

GAMSTOP on every session, not only at sign-up

A player can self-exclude the day after registering. Checking only at registration catches none of them, so the query runs on session start and a hit ends the session.

  • Register, timestamp and result recorded against the check
  • A hit returns fail with a recorded reason and no threshold can override it

Finance

Trigger
your thresholds

Financial checks tied to loss, not to deposit

The British regime has moved towards lighter-touch checks that fire on net loss over a rolling window rather than on single large deposits — which means the trigger has to watch a window, not a transaction.

  • Rolling-window thresholds, configured and versioned per market
  • The case opens with the evidence request inside the session

Integration

Questions that come up here

We hold a UKGC licence and an MGA one. Can both run through this?

The platform is configured per market, and a check names its market, so one integration can serve both. What it will not do is apply the British policy to a non-British registration — the thresholds, the acceptable documents and the exclusion source all switch with the market.

Does a GAMSTOP hit need a human to confirm it?

No. It returns fail, the session ends, and the reason is recorded. The review path exists for signals that are genuinely ambiguous; an exclusion match is not one of them.

How long is the evidence kept?

For the retention term you configure, which should be set from your own licence conditions rather than from our default. The bundle is immutable once sealed, so the record you retrieve in year three is the record that was made in year one.