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Prevent minors from accessing online casinos
Prevent minors from accessing online casinos

30/07/2024 16:00

Responsible gaming: How to prevent minors from accessing your casino account?

One of the biggest concerns that currently affects a significant number of parents and in general society, is the ease with which minors can access the internet, and therefore navigate and access websites of virtually any subject. There is thus undoubtedly a possibility that these minors visit any of the numerous online gambling platforms.

PepperMill Casino however, has a strong commitment to responsible gambling, as you may have already noticed throughout any of the previous blogs. That’s why we want to show you how to prevent underage children from playing or gambling on any online casino or online sportsbook.

PepperMill is a gaming operator that holds the appropriate B+ license, obtained through the Belgian Gaming Commission, to operate in Belgium. We thus do not let any person younger than 21 years old create an account and play.

Nevertheless, despite all the measures and mechanisms we put in place, it is also essential that parents take certain precautions. So that, working together, we can make the Belgium gambling sector one hundred percent safe where no underage person can gamble or play!

Below, we will explain different security measures that we require in this regard, and we will also give you some advice or recommendations, simply for the sole purpose of protecting your children or any other minor.

Legal mechanisms

As a security measure and under the premise of promoting responsible gaming, we have an identity verification system in place from the very first moment a user intends to register on our online platform.

Everyone who wants to register at PepperMill Casino, has to enter his or her personal details such as birth date and National Identification Number. Whenever an individual enters a birth date that corresponds to an age younger than 21 years old, the individual will not be able to complete the registration.

Our system and specialized department also evaluate the profile of the user attempting to register to see if there is any other person already registered with the same data (to prevent identity theft).

Parental control apps

Furthermore we encourage our users to be protective of their loved ones, especially any minors. Specifically we do awareness campaigns to push the use of certain parental control apps installed on each device to where any minor child or any little brother/sister could get access to.

It is no secret that the easy access to the internet has brought several inconveniences and negative situations for the proper development of minors. Studies indicate that at least 33% of these users have had negative experiences when accessing the internet through their devices.

For all these reasons, we believe that parental control should be something totally necessary in order to save situations or problems in which the minor may be affected. Some of our recommendations are:

  • Register the minor’s online activity in order to analyze their frequently viewed websites.

    • Alert in case of access to inappropriate or age-inappropriate websites.

      • Prevent problems from contact with unknown people, such as cyberbullying, grooming or sexting

        • Limit the time of use of the device to which the child has access.

          • Reduce the possibility of minors offering personal data to inappropriate websites, by filtering out those pages that a minor can and cannot access. Be sure to check out sites such as

            These are some general contributions of parental controls, but there are also many other advantages or particular benefits offered by the applications you decide to use to prevent minors from gambling or betting.