Contents

• Privacy policy
• 1.
  General
• 2.
  Financial requirements
• 3.
  Protection of children and other vulnerable persons
• 4.
  ‘Fair and open’ provisions
• 5.
  Marketing
• 6.
  Complaints and disputes
• 7.
  Gambling licensees’ staff
• 8.
  Information requirements
• 9.
  Gaming machines in gambling premises
• 10.
  Assessing local risk
• What is personal data and special category data?
• What personal data do we collect, for what purpose, and what is the basis for doing so?
• Licence applicants and National Lottery vetting
• People who already hold an operating and or personal licence
• People we are investigating/regulatory action
• Complainant data
• Gambling Commission Consultations
• What are cookies?
• Our use of cookies
• How we use information website and digital service users provide us with
• User research
• Links to other websites
• How long we keep the information
• Keeping your personal information secure
• Obtaining data from third parties
• Who we share personal data with
• Your rights
• The right to rectification
• The right to erasure
• The right to restrict processing
• The right to object processing
• Law enforcement processing
• Accessing your personal data
• Overseas transfers
• Changes to this privacy statement
• Stakeholder events privacy notice
• How to contact us
• Recruitment privacy notice 2024
• Monitoring social media
• How to complain privacy policy
• Do you need any extra help?
• Regular Feed of Operator Core Data (ROCD) (Pilot Project)

Complainant data

Our complaints page lists the sorts of complaints we may see in the course of our work (and explains how you might raise a complaint) – these include:

1. Consumer complaints about a gambling business (save for that mentioned below, these will generally be made to the business itself first or, if necessary, by an Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) process)
2. Complaints about ADR providers
3. Whistleblowing about the way a gambling business is run
4. Complaints about the National Lottery
5. Complaints about the Gambling Commission.

When we receive any such complaint, we will create a complaint file which will identify the complainant (and include their contact details) and others who may be named in the complaint.

We will ordinarily have to share the complainant’s identity with the operator or person complained about. It may be necessary for the person complained about to access any relevant information they hold on a complainant (for example, relevant customer account details, history) to help us resolve the complaint. The more complete a picture that we have of the issues complained about, the better prospect we will have in dealing with it effectively. If a complainant tells us that they do not want to be identified to the operator/ person complained about, we will try to respect that. But where there is an overarching public interest to progress a complaint made, which cannot be done without disclosing the complainant’s identity, we may decide to do so.

A complaint may also lead to regulatory action as set out above; as such, the relevant data may also form part of the investigation file.

We may publish research or statistics regarding the complaints we deal with in a relevant period; but we will not do this in a way which identifies individual complainants.

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