Clause watch
One clause, read across every company in every register, so you can see the pattern instead of one company at a time. It is the part of a contract nobody reads until it has already been used on them.
1 sweep published2 queued24 operators per sweeplatest collected 2026-09-22
What a sweep is
The rest of this site is organised by company. You pick an operator and read what its documents say. That answers one question well and a more useful one badly, because a reader who has just had a balance voided cannot tell from one contract whether what happened to them is standard practice or one operator’s outlier.
A sweep turns the register on its side. We take a single clause, read it in all 24 binding documents on the same day, quote each one verbatim with the URL and the retrieval date, and publish the counts. The result is a picture of an industry norm rather than a verdict on a company. Sometimes the finding is that the clause is everywhere and nobody drafts it the same way. Sometimes it is that the operators with the harshest clauses are not the ones you would guess, and that the ones with no clause at all are not therefore safe.
Nothing in a sweep is summarised from a review site. Every quotation is taken from the operator’s own terms, and where a document could not be retrieved the operator is named as not retrieved rather than left out of the table, because a missing row reads as a clean one.
The sweeps
| Sweep | The question it answers | Status | Finding |
|---|---|---|---|
| VPN, proxy and location clauses | Can they take my balance if they find a VPN? | read 2026-09-22 | Six of fourteen prohibit the tool, seven reserve a claim on the money, and four never mention it while three of those four raise it in their own product. |
| Dormancy and inactivity fees | What happens to a balance I leave alone for a year? | not yet read | Not yet read. |
| Unilateral amendment | Can they change the terms after I deposit? | not yet read | Not yet read. |
The sweep that is published
VPN, proxy and location clauses
What fourteen operators say about VPNs, and what they say they can take if they find one.
11 of 24 prohibit the tool in their binding terms. 12 reserve a claim on the money, whether that is the winnings, the balance or the deposit. 10 write the remedy as a discretion rather than a consequence, so what happens to you is decided after the fact. Only 8 separate using a VPN for privacy from using one to get around a country block. 4 documents could not be retrieved at all and are named on the page.
What is queued, and why those
A clause earns a sweep when three things are true: it decides whether the player keeps money, it appears in most of the fourteen contracts, and its drafting varies enough that the variation is itself the finding. Dormancy is queued because an inactivity fee against an untouched balance is the quietest way a balance disappears. Unilateral amendment is queued because it governs every other clause: a term that can be rewritten after you deposit is a term you did not agree to.
A queued sweep is listed with no findings rather than left off the page. The queue is a claim about what we intend to read, and a reader is entitled to see it before we have read it.
What a sweep does not do
A sweep reads documents. It does not establish what an operator does in practice, how often a clause is enforced, or whether a clause would survive a court in any particular country. Several of these contracts contain terms that would be unenforceable against a consumer in parts of Europe, and none of that helps a player whose balance is already gone. What a sweep tells you is what the operator has written down that it may do, which is the floor of your exposure rather than a prediction.