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It is often said that one can discern the quality, or otherwise, of a company by how well they treat their customers. This is particularly true in the internet gaming industry, where a handful of businesses put income over customer care. Online casinos are amongst the biggest successes of the internet era, and each year they appear to attract more and more customers to everything from sports betting to bingo and pretty much everything in between. With the popularity of online gaming, unfortunately, comes a certain number of gamers who find that they have problems with gambling. A few online casinos, as a result, have gone to great lengths to make sure that their members are looked after (as far as possible) against addiction to gambling. 32Red, who are particularly famous for their customer support, have built controls into their platform allowing no more than a certain amount of game time, financial losses, and even the opportunity to have a cooling off spell of six months when access is made impossible, if the user is prepared to go to those lengths. They've also established a tie with gambling awareness charity GamCare. GamCare are the biggest national charity in regards to offering support for gamblers and they offer a nationwide phone line for people who believe that they might have an addiction to gambling. The figures from the support line reveal a few interesting bits of data about the nature of gambling addiction in Britain (all the information is related by choice). For example, men are more likely to develop gambling problems, and they're additionally more likely to self-refer to a charity like GamCare than women who are often referred by friends or family member. The figures also demonstrate that single greatest source of addiction is putting money on sports, whereas types like cards and bingo make up a minute percentage of all the telephone calls made. Of course, we must be a touch wary with statistics like that, after all, they don't mean that one form of gambling is more potentially problematic than another, further research would need to be done. The advancing number of link ups between casinos like 32Red and charities such as GamCare is good news for the online casino sector. It represents an increasing level of care for the customer, and for individuals who might be possibly interested in playing in an internet casino, checking to see whether a certain casino is concerned enough about its clients to try and prevent gambling addiction is a reliable sign of whether that particular casino is the sort of establishment with whom you are safe to place your money or not.
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