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Player safety

Responsible gambling

The set of duties and controls that protect players from harm: limits, self-exclusion, reality checks, affordability considerations and staff intervention. In regulated markets it is a licence condition, and failures are among the most common causes of enforcement action.

Where it belongs

Player safety

Written in contracts as
RG
Terms it sits beside
Self-exclusion, Deposit limit, Tiered compliance model

Part of the Scalara iGaming glossary, written for operators choosing a platform.

What it means for an operator

The controls themselves are ordinary. What separates a platform that holds under scrutiny from one that does not is where they live. Safety states in the account core cannot be routed around. Flags in a marketing tool can.

Scalara builds freeze, suspension, ban and self-exclusion into the account itself. Harm-First Orchestration, which would put harm questions ahead of commercial ones in a single decision order, is in active development.

See what this looks like in the back office

Whatever this term describes, there is either a screen behind it or there is not. We will show you which.

Thirty minutes, in the live environment, with the team who built it.