Guidance
Complaints and disputes: procedural, information provision and reporting requirements
Guidance to licensees’ on policies, procedures and controls for handling customer complaints.
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6 - Information to customers
Licence holders should ensure that the information they provide to customers includes information on how to make a complaint, and relevant contact details for doing so. It should also include information about how the complaint process works, and expected timescales for resolution.
Information on complaints processes should also include the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) identity, with contact details, which can be by way of a link from the licence holder’s website) of the approved ADR entity to whom disputes can normally be referred, and where necessary, details of any limitation on the nature or subject matter that an entity can deal with, for example, if an entity only deals with a particular sector of gambling. This information should be provided to the customer if the complaint cannot be resolved by the licence holder.
Exceptionally, customers may request to use an ADR provider other than the one that is named by the licence holder. Licence holders may agree to use an alternative provider. However, if the alternative ADR provider is not on the list of providers approved by the Commission, Licence holders must inform the customer of the associated risks in using the alternative provider to allow the customer to make an informed choice.
For example, unapproved providers are not bound by the requirements of the ADR regulations, which require providers to be fair, transparent and open. Licence holders should also inform such customers that they may use the licence holder’s named, approved ADR provider for the dispute even if they have already used an unapproved ADR entity.
Licence holders should provide a copy of the complaints policy to a customer on request, or when the customer makes a complaint.
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Last updated: 21 January 2021
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