Responsible Gambling and Harm
Activity Statement Gambling
A gambling activity statement summarizes deposits, withdrawals, bets, and net position over a period for player review.
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Affected Other Gambling Harm
An affected other is someone harmed by another person’s gambling, such as a partner or family member.
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Affordability Check
An affordability check reviews whether a player’s gambling spend appears sustainable relative to financial information or thresholds.
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Block Gambling Marketing
Blocking gambling marketing stops bonus emails, pushes, and ads where operators or platforms provide opt-outs—often automatic after self-exclusion.
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Chasing Losses
Chasing losses is continuing or escalating gambling in an attempt to recover money already lost.
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Cooling-Off Period
A cooling-off period is a short voluntary break from gambling access, typically days to weeks, weaker than full self-exclusion.
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Crisis Support Gambling
Crisis support covers urgent help when gambling harm coincides with severe distress, suicidality, or immediate safety risk.
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Deposit Limit
A deposit limit caps how much money a player can fund into a gambling account over a chosen period.
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Financial Harm from Gambling
Financial harm from gambling includes debt, unpaid bills, depleted savings, and related money stress linked to gambling spend.
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Financial Vulnerability Indicator
Financial vulnerability indicators are internal flags suggesting a customer may be in financial difficulty relevant to gambling risk.
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Gambling Advertising Restriction
Gambling advertising restrictions limit how and to whom operators may market gambling, including to self-excluded or underage audiences.
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Gambling Disorder
Gambling disorder is a clinical term used in diagnostic manuals for persistent, recurrent gambling behavior meeting specific criteria—assessment belongs to clinicians.
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Gambling Helpline
A gambling helpline is a phone, chat, or text service offering confidential support and referrals for people affected by gambling harm.
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Gambling Management Tools
Gambling management tools are account controls—limits, reality checks, time-outs, and exclusion—used to manage play.
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Gambling with Borrowed Money
Gambling with borrowed money means funding play with loans, credit cards, or money owed to others—widely treated as a high-risk harm signal.
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Gambling-Related Harm
Gambling-related harm means negative effects of gambling on health, finances, relationships, work, or community—experienced by players or affected others.
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GAMSTOP
GAMSTOP is Great Britain’s free multi-operator online self-exclusion scheme for players who want to block access across participating licensed sites.
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Loss Limit
A loss limit caps net losses over a period, stopping further loss-making play once the threshold is reached.
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Mandatory Break
A mandatory break is a system-enforced pause in play after time, spend, or regulatory triggers.
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Markers of Harm
Markers of harm are behavioral or account signals operators monitor as possible indicators of gambling-related risk.
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Multi-Operator Self-Exclusion
Multi-operator self-exclusion schemes let a person block themselves across many licensed operators through one registration.
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National Gambling Support Service
National gambling support services are country-level treatment and advice systems for gambling harm.
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Net Deposit Limit
A net deposit limit constrains deposits minus withdrawals over a period, focusing on money left in the gambling ecosystem.
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Operator Intervention
Operator intervention is outreach or account action when risk markers suggest a player may be experiencing harm.
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Pan-Operator Exclusion List
An exclusion register is a shared list used to prevent self-excluded people from opening or accessing gambling accounts.
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PGSI
The Problem Gambling Severity Index (PGSI) is a research and screening questionnaire that categorizes gambling risk levels; it is not a standalone clinical diagnosis.
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Positive Play
Positive play refers to attitudes and behaviors associated with safer recreational gambling, such as honesty about odds and pre-set limits.
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Preoccupation with Gambling
Preoccupation means persistent thoughts about gambling, planning bets, or reliving play—often listed in screening and clinical criteria frameworks.
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Problem Gambling
Problem gambling is a non-diagnostic public-health and industry phrase for gambling that is causing a person significant harm or loss of control.
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Reality Check
A reality check is a scheduled reminder of session length and, sometimes, spend—so players can decide whether to continue.
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Relapse after Self-Exclusion
Relapse in this context means returning to gambling after a period of abstinence or formal self-exclusion.
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Responsible Gambling
Responsible gambling refers to practices, product tools, and policies that help people keep gambling controlled and within personally affordable limits.
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Safer Gambling
Safer gambling is terminology preferred in some markets for reducing gambling-related harm through tools, design, and support—not implying gambling is risk-free.
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Safer Gambling Messaging
Safer gambling messaging is on-site and advertising copy that promotes limit tools and help resources.
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Self-Assessment Gambling
A gambling self-assessment is a questionnaire that helps people reflect on play patterns; it is not a clinical diagnosis.
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Self-Exclusion
Self-exclusion is a voluntary ban that blocks a person from accessing a gambling operator—or a multi-operator scheme—for a chosen period.
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Session Limit
A session limit caps how long a continuous gambling session may last before the player is logged out or locked.
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Social Harm from Gambling
Social harm from gambling covers damage to relationships, trust, parenting, or community life linked to gambling.
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Spend Limit
A spend limit caps total amount wagered or spent over a period, depending on how the operator defines “spend.”
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Staff Gambling Training
Staff gambling training teaches customer-facing teams to recognize risk markers and conduct safer-gambling interactions.
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Time Limit
A time limit restricts total gambling time over a day or other period.
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Tolerance in Gambling
Tolerance in gambling contexts refers to needing larger bets or more frequent play to get the same excitement—discussed in clinical and screening frameworks.
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Underage Gambling Prevention
Underage gambling prevention covers controls that stop minors from accessing gambling products and marketing.
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Withdrawal Symptoms Gambling Context
In clinical discussions of gambling disorder, restlessness or irritability when cutting down gambling may be described as withdrawal-like features—assessment is clinical.
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