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This is a comparison site. It reads what gambling operators publish about themselves, checks the licence numbers they display against the registers of the authorities that issued them, and sets the results side by side so that a reader can see what is documented and what is not.

It is not an operator: no games, no money taken, no accounts, no gambling service of any kind. It has no relationship with any licensing authority, is not regulated by one, and does not act for any operator. That matters for reading the rest of this page: a comparison site can describe the paperwork accurately, and it cannot tell anyone what they may do.

A gambling licence is a permission. An authority grants it to a company, on conditions, allowing that company to offer defined services under the authority's supervision. It is a document about the operator: who may run the business, what it may offer, what records it must keep, and where the authority's permission is understood to reach.

Two things follow, and they are easy to miss. The first is that a licence is granted to the operator and not to the customer. It says what the company is permitted to do. It does not grant a permission to anyone else, and it is not addressed to a player at all.

The second is that a licence describes the position of the authority that issued it. When an authority states a territorial condition on a permission, it is describing the limits of its own grant. That is a fact about the licence, and reporting one is not a statement about what any reader may or may not do.

The two are governed by different instruments and answered by different bodies. An operator's conditions come from its licence and its own terms of service; they bind the company, and through the terms they bind its contract with customers.

A reader's own position comes from the law where that reader is. It is not set by an operator's terms, it is not set by a foreign regulator's licence conditions, and it is certainly not set by a comparison site. It varies from place to place, it changes over time, and in many places it turns on individual circumstances no published page can know.

So a licence in good order tells a reader something real about the operator and nothing about themselves. Both halves matter: the first is why we check registers, the second is why we stop there.

The operators compared on this site hold licences from several different authorities, and those authorities differ in ways visible even from outside. Some publish a searchable register that returns a status against a number; some publish a list; some publish very little. Some numbers resolve immediately, and some have no register behind them that we have been able to find.

This site records those differences as facts about what could be checked, and it does not rank the authorities themselves, because saying one regulator's supervision is stronger than another's would require knowing how each behaves when something goes wrong. What we will say is narrower: a licence number that resolves on a public register is more useful to a reader than one that does not, because it can be checked without trusting anybody, including us.

It will not tell you that gambling is permitted or prohibited for you, anywhere. It publishes no country-by-country verdict, because the honest answer always depends on facts a website does not have.

It will not describe ways of getting around a geographic block or of appearing to be somewhere you are not; requests for that are declined. It will not offer legal, financial or tax advice. And it will not tell you that an operator is safe, because safety is a claim about future conduct and this site only reads documents.

• No statement about whether anything is permitted for any particular reader
• No country-by-country verdicts
• No routes around a geographic restriction
• No legal, financial or tax advice
• No assurance about how any operator will behave

Deciding whether to open an account anywhere is the reader's decision and the reader's responsibility. If there is any doubt about your own position, take advice from someone qualified where you are before acting, and treat the absence of an answer here as deliberate rather than as an implication either way. This site is for adults aged eighteen or over, and some readers will be subject to a higher minimum age depending on where they are.

Gambling can cause serious harm, and the harm is not confined to money. If it is causing difficulty for you or someone close to you, a qualified support service in your own country is the right place to turn. Nothing on this site is an encouragement to gamble.