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Lately, many users have strongly criticised the official casino affiliate program of Videoslots Casino – Videoslots Affiliates. At the middle of March 2017, a discussion over the fairness and transparency of Videoslots Affiliates has been started at the Affiliate Guard Dog (AGD) by some affiliates who have called the program a rogue one.
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The problem was described by some of the users as one of the worst ones ever made, especially in terms of functionality and transparency. As reported on GPWA and AGD, the rows of Active Players and Unique Depositors have been zeroed out, and affiliates blamed Videoslots Affiliates for failing to provide clear and detailed information about how their revenue is calculated.
The Truth is Out There
The report of the stats closure was not taken seriously at first, but a few days after the announcement some affiliates harshly criticised Videoslots for not doing anything to make things right. The negative opinions towards the program escalated quickly, after some of the AGD users called the other affiliates to take measures and require more detailed information about their revenue. And while some wondered what had been actually going on with Videoslots affiliates, there were some affiliates who pointed out that the scheme of the affiliate program was fairly obvious and even made guesses that had been going on from the very start.
Despite the fact that some affiliates did not pay serious attention to what had been happening to the Active Players and Unique Depositors stats, most of them confessed that the issue needed to be resolved. The Videoslots Affiliates was called a rogue program by many affiliates, and the brand was urged to get back the trust of its affiliates by making sure its policy is fair and transparent.
According to many webmasters, the affiliate program of Videoslots is obviously unfair, and some AGD users described the issue as a serious problem. Things got even bigger when a representative of the Videoslots brand took part in the discussions and reassured the affiliates that the company is aware of the issues its affiliates had had with the program. The representative also promised that all the necessary measures have been taken in order to make things right and the situation is improved, so that all affiliates gain trust in the company’s operations again.
Some Affiliate Guard Dog users insisted that Videoslots brand was shady and was only making schemes to make a gain on the affiliates. They compared the new affiliate program of the brand with an old one, saying the new program is not transparent to customers and blaming the brand for making money on the backs of its affiliates. As one of the users pointed out, it had been almost two years since the stats had been turned off for the affiliates using the Videoslots program. The AGD user reminded that at that time Videoslots had said that it would take only a couple of weeks for the stats to be brought back up, but no actions on that had been actually made.
Bearing that in mind, it is no wonder that affiliates have lost their trust in the brand and do not believe them. After all, two years is a period long enough for every provider to put its affiliate program in order, so it is pretty normal for an affiliate to think there is something shady about it. And whatever technical work is needed, two years is more than enough for Videoslots to resolve the issues that have led to the turbulence, if any.
Videoslots Affiliate Response to the Accusations
The representative who joined the discussion at the Affiliate Guard Dog (AGD) claimed that things are not that simple as the brand’s affiliates believed them to be, because the company had more than 1,900 games offered by about 50 software providers in multiple jurisdictions around the world.
According to what the representative said, the company had been trying to find a solution to the problem, but continued insisting that there was nothing wrong about the affiliates program. In addition, the company still insisted that it had done its best to find a proper solution to the problem, no matter that its reputation was put on stake.
The affiliates, however, once again protested everything the representative said, insisting on them to reveal how exactly Net Revenue is calculated. And that was probably the right thing for them to do, considering the fact that such information is not classified, and it does not take special resources to be made clear. They were not satisfied with the information included in the Terms and Conditions and insisted on the fact that various other deductions had been made, so that the program was actually making a gain for its own on their backs.
What is more, some affiliates also asked the question why other programs do not feature fees similar to the ones of the Videoslots. Others protested that there could be some programs that feature similar fees, but their policy offered greater transparency to their affiliates. In any case, the majority of the opinions in both the GPWA and AGD on the matter were concentrated on the belief that a program that has been avoiding to respond simple questions such as the ones asked by the affiliates, could be described in no other way, but as a rogue one.
In fact, the Videoslots Affiliate Program has not provided its affiliates with accurate, clear and detailed information on the matter, which on its own is a reason good enough for the brand to be harshly criticised. The truth is that most affiliates could no longer be fooled with blabbering about all the technical issues and obstacles on the way that prevented the program from being more transparent.
Even after the Head of the Acquisition department at Videoslots Affiliates – Ali Atam – took part in the discussion at AGD, the situation remains pretty heated for the time being. So, it would be great if the brand, after all, manages to provide more clarity on the matter and give more detailed information about the closure of the Active Players and Unique Depositors stats. The Head of the Acquisition department finally promised that more clarity on the Net Revenue calculation would be made, so it remains to be seem whether the brand would keep its promise, or not.
Videoslots Affiliates program
The Videoslots Affiliates is an affiliate program that gives its members the chance to be compensated by using a number of plans. The program was considered to be used primarily as a revenue sharing model, which allows the affiliate to receive a certain portion of the net revenue generated by them for Videoslots Casino. The percentage received by the affiliates, however, was flexible as it depended on the net revenue generated over the month. It is exactly the lack of clarity on this matter which became the apple of discord and made the affiliates lose trust in the Videoslots brand.
The team of Casino Guardian would appreciate to hear some comments and/or opinions from all parties involved in the matter. We will keep our eyes on the problem, so we will publish the latest updates of the matter.
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Olivia Cole
Olivia Cole has worked as a journalist for several years now. Over the last couple of years she has been engaged in writing about a number of industries and has developed an interest for the gambling market in the UK.
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Date | Description | Version |
10th August 2020 | Creation of this Document | Version 1.0 |
Videoslots values your integrity and privacy immensely and is committed to managing all your personal data in a transparent, fair and lawful manner. This privacy policy (together with the Terms & Conditions and the Cookie Policy) sets out the basis upon which Videoslots collects, stores, and uses your personal data when you visit our website, as well as what your rights are, and how the law protects those rights (“Privacy Policy”).
This Privacy Policy uses a layered approach, meaning you can click through any of the specific areas as set out below for your ease of reference:
7. Your Rights
1. ABOUT US
(a) Purpose of Policy
This Privacy Policy aims to give you a thorough understanding of how we process your personal data which is gathered through your use of this website, and which includes any data which you may provide us with upon registration and through your use of our online casino.
This website is solely intended for persons over the age of 18, and we do not knowingly collect data relating to persons under such age. If it becomes apparent to us that we have collected personal data relating to persons under the age of 18, due to reasons relating to abuse of our website, we do our utmost to ensure that such data is handled in accordance with applicable law.
Unless otherwise defined within this Privacy Policy, capitalised terms contained herein shall have the same meaning as set out in the Terms & Conditions.
This Privacy Policy must be read in conjunction with any other privacy notices we may provide you with from time-to-time. This Privacy Policy is supplementary to other such notices and is not intended to override them.
We vow to protect your personal data and to always respect your privacy in accordance with the best business practices and applicable laws. You are responsible to provide us with personal data that is correct and inform us of any changes occurring in your data in writing, in order that we may take all reasonable measures to keep our records in your regard correct and up to date.
We vow to protect your personal data and to always respect your privacy in accordance with the best business practices and applicable laws. You are responsible to provide us with personal data that is correct and inform us of any changes occurring in your data in writing, in order that we may take all reasonable measures to keep our records in your regard correct and up to date.
(b) Data Controller
Videoslots Ltd of Europa Business Centre, Level 3-701, Dun Karm Street, Birkirkara, BKR 9034, Malta is the data controller and is therefore responsible for your personal data (“Company” or “we”, “us”, “our” in this Privacy Policy).
Since we take your privacy seriously, we have appointed a data protection officer (“DPO”) whose responsibility it is to oversee that the company is compliant with its legal obligations in respect of the processing of your personal data, and who is your contact point for any questions relating to this Privacy Policy. Should you have any queries about this policy, including any request to exercise your legal rights, please contact our DPO using the details provided below:
Videoslots Affiliates
Full Name of Legal Entity | Videoslots Ltd (C49090) |
Postal Address | Europa Business Centre, Level 3-701, Dun Karm Street, Birkirkara, BKR 9034, Malta |
Email Address | [email protected] |
You also have the right to file a complaint with the Information and Data Protection Commission (“IDPC”) at any time, being the main Supervisory Authority for data protection matters in Malta. However, we would truly appreciate the opportunity to address your issues before you contact the IDPC, so kindly contact us in the first instance.
2. YOUR DATA
(a)What is personal data?
The General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) defines personal data as:
“any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person”
You, as the Company’s customer, are the ‘data subject’ in relation to this privacy policy. In short, this means that any personal data relating to you as a data subject is protected under data protection law. However, it does not include data where the identifiers relating to the data subject have been removed (meaning anonymous data).
(b)The important stuff – what, how, and why?
We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data. In this section we explain the following:
(i)what kind of data we collect;
(ii)how we collect such data – do we get the data directly from you? Do we get it from other sources?;
(iii)for which purposes we collect the data – how and why do we use this data?; and
(iv)what our legal basis for processing such data is – the possible legal bases we could rely on are:
a.Legitimate interest – when relying on this legal ground, it means that we process your data in the interest of conducting and managing our business to ultimately provide you the best service and experience we possibly could. Before relying on this ground, we ensure that we evaluate that potential impact such processing may have on you and your rights. Therefore, we do not rely on this ground where your rights and interests as a data subject override our interests to process such data;
b.Consent – Where consent is used as a legal basis for processing your data, we only process your data in such a manner for as long as we have your consent to do so. If, at any time, you feel that you no longer wish for us to process your data in such a manner, we will no longer do so. However, this will not affect any processing of personal data that we carried out with your consent prior to the removal of your consent. Please see Section 7 of this Privacy Policy for further information on how you can remove your consent.
Data collected | How do we collect your data? | Purpose for collection | Legal basis for processing data |
Identification data – this includesfull name, username of choice, date of birth, gender | Requested upon registration | (1) Customer identification and creation of unique customer profile | (1) Consent |
Contact details – this includes email address, home address, mobile phone number | Requested upon registration | (1) Customer identification and creation of unique customer profile (2) Contacting customers for support purposes (3) Dissemination of marketing material | (1) Consent (2) Legitimate interest (3) Consent |
Gaming data – this includes details relating to the games you play on our website (i.e. your gaming activity) | Automatically generated with gaming activity | (1) Required to provide you with the service | (1) Legitimate interest |
Data relating to your communications with us (via email, live chat, phone call) | Email correspondence and live chat when contact is made, phone calls may be recorded for record-keeping requirements | (1) Required to provide you with the service (for customer queries, communicating necessary issues) | (1) Legitimate interest |
Profile data – Data relating to your gaming habits and your preferences | Automatically generated with game play, or using cookies to log preferences | (1) May be used in aggregated and anonymised form to improve service (2) May be used to for a more personalised user experience (3) Segmentation purposes – segmenting you into different groups depending on several factors, such as your game play, etc. This is mainly for us to improve our product and service by understanding our customers better (4) Targeted marketing | (1) Legitimate interest – data in anonymised form is not personal data (2) Consent (3) Legitimate interest (4) Consent |
Technical data – this may include your internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, operating system and platform. Usage data – includes data relating to how you use our website | Cookie data | (1) Location data / IP used to ensure customer is not from a restricted or high-risk country (2) Location data / IP address also used to ensure that they do not use proxies or VPNs, to ensure that they do not abuse bonuses or defraud by application fraud (3) All other data (including location and IP) is used to improve website functionality, troubleshoot technical issues, create more products for different platforms | (1) Legitimate interest (2) Legitimate interest (3) Legitimate interest |
Marketing and communications data – includes your preferences relating to receiving marketing messages from us and other third parties (such as affiliates), as well as your communication preferences. | (1) Own marketing via different communication channels (2) Marketing through affiliates | (1) Consent (granular – per channel) (2) Consent | |
Cookie data – please see our Cookie Policy for further information on how and for which purposes we collect your cookies. |
You may find further information below relating to how we may process your data for the following reasons:
- Marketing – we do our best to ensure that you have the utmost control over what kind of marketing material you receive from us or from other third parties on our behalf. You may see and amend your choices relating to marketing in our Privacy Dashboard on your user account here. If you feel you would like more control over what kind of marketing material we send to you, please feel free to send your suggestions to our DPO at the contact details listed above. Should you wish to revoke your consent for certain processing activities, it may take up to 48 hours for us to ensure that the changes were implemented into our systems and those of our marketing partners (and therefore you might receive some emails or information from us within those 48 hours for this reason). Section 7 explains exactly how you can revoke your consent.
Your personal data shall not be processed for purposes other than those it was collected for; should further processing be required, you will be informed of that purpose and provided with all necessary information.
3. SHARING OF DATA
Due to the nature of our service, in order to process your data as explained in section 2 of this Privacy Policy, we may need to share your personal data with a number of trusted third parties. These third parties include:
(i)Game providers – sometimes our game providers would require access to select data attributes (such as username and IP address, for instance), in order to provide us with the games you play on our website;
(ii)Marketing partners – where you give us your consent to send you marketing and promotions, we may share your contact details (such as email address or mailing address) with our marketing partners who take care of sending out all our marketing material to you;
(iii)Governmental or regulatory authorities – We may, if necessary or authorised by law, provide your personal data to law enforcement agencies, governmental or regulatory organisations, courts or other public authorities. We attempt to notify all our customers about legal demands for their personal data unless prohibited by law or court order or when the request is an emergency. We may dispute such demands when we believe that the requests are disproportionate, vague or lack proper authority, but we do not promise to challenge every demand;
(iv)Client communication software – we use a third-party software to help us communicate with you. This software enables us to send you emails and chat with you on live chat whenever you have queries.
We always ensure that any third party having access to your personal data is bound to respect the security of your personal data, and to process it in a lawful manner at all times and in compliance with our Privacy Policy and strict codes of conduct. We do not allow any third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes. Processing by such third parties (also known as “Data Processors”) is solely carried out for specific purposes and in accordance with our instructions as Data Controller and on our behalf, and such third parties may only use your personal data to the extent to which we ourselves are entitled. Furthermore, in all cases, we strive to ensure that we do not share more data than is necessary to be shared for the service providers to carry out the processing activities in accordance with our instructions.
4. TRANSFERS OF PERSONAL DATA
Some of the service providers outlined in section 3 above may be based in countries which do not form part of the European Economic Area (“EEA”). This may mean that your data may be stored in a location outside of the EEA. Whenever any transfers of your personal data are made to Data Processors located outside of the EEA, we always ensure that your data is protected in the same way as it is in the EEA. In order to ensure the protection of your data, we implement at least one of the following safeguards:
(i)Adequacy decision – we ensure that we transfer your personal data to countries providing an adequate level of protection according to the European Commission;
(ii)Standard clauses – where the Data Processor is not based in a country benefiting from an adequacy decision, we may use specific contracts, known as standard contract clauses, which are model contracts approved by the European Commission. These contracts also ensure that the personal data is afforded the same protection as it is in the EEA.
5. DATA SECURITY MEASURES
Videoslots always strives to ensure that your data is safe, both in our hands and in the hands of any third-party to whom we may disclose your data. Internally, we have put in place a number of security measures, both from a technical aspect as well as from an organisational aspect, to ensure that your data is not accidentally lost, used, accessed in an unauthorised manner, altered, or disclosed. We also ensure that access to your personal data is determined on a ‘need-to-know’ basis, meaning that only the persons who have a direct need to access your personal data will have access to it. Furthermore, anyone having access to your personal data is subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected or actual personal data breaches. We will notify both you as an affected data subject and the supervisory authority concerned of any such data breach whenever we are legally required to do so and we shall maintain a log of any such breaches.
6. DATA RETENTION
Videoslots shall only retain your personal data for as long as necessary in view of the purposes for which they were collected. Such purposes could include the satisfaction of any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
When determining the appropriate retention period applicable to your data, we take several factors into consideration, such as the nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risks surrounding the unauthorised use or disclosure of such data, the purposes for which we collect and process such data, and the applicable laws and/or regulatory requirements imposed on us.
Please feel free to contact our DPO on the contact details provided above for further information on our retention periods.
7. YOUR RIGHTS
Videoslots Affiliates
Data protection law gives you, as a data subject, certain rights in certain circumstances. In accordance with law, you have a right to:
(i)Request access to your personal data – This means that you have a right to request, free of charge, a copy of the personal data we hold about you
(ii) Request the correction of your personal data – This means that if any personal data we hold about you is incomplete or incorrect, you have a right to have this corrected. Keep in mind, however, that we may need you to provide evidence and documentation (such as your ID documentation or proof of address) to support your request;
(iii) Request the erasure of your personal data – This means that you may request the erasure of your personal data where we no longer have a legitimate reason to continue processing it or retaining it. Please be aware that this right is not absolute – meaning that we are not able to satisfy your request where we are obliged under a legal obligation to retain the data, or where we have reason that the retention of data is necessary for us to defend ourselves in a legal dispute;
(iv) Object to the processing of your personal data where we rely on our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) to process your data and you feel that our processing of your data in such a manner impacts your fundamental rights and freedoms. However, in some cases, we may be able to demonstrate that we have a compelling legitimate ground to process your data which may override your rights and freedoms. You may submit your objections to processing of your personal data on the grounds of the above-mentioned legitimate company interests by contacting our DPO;
(v) Request the restriction of the processing of your personal data – You may ask us to temporarily suspend the processing of your personal data in one of the following scenarios: (a) where you want us to establish the accuracy of the data, (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not wish for us to delete it, (c) where you need us to retain your data even when we no longer need it in order for you to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims, or (d) where you have objected the use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it;
(vi) Request the transfer of your personal data (i.e. data portability) – This means you may request us to transfer certain data we process about you to a third party. This right only applies to data acquired through automated means which you initially provided consent for us to use, or where we used the data to perform our obligations under a contract with you;
(vii) Withdraw your consent at any time where we rely on your consent to process the data – ‘Opting out’ or withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out by us up until the time you withdrew your consent. Withdrawing your consent means that, going forward, you no longer wish for us to process your data in such a manner. This means that you may no longer consent for us to provide you with certain services (such as marketing. You may withdraw your consent at any time through the Privacy Dashboard, found on “Your Account” on the website;
(viii) File a complaint with a supervisory authority – as explained in section 1(b) of this Privacy Policy.
In order to exercise your rights as explained above, we may need to request specific information about you to help us verify your identity. This is a security measure to ensure that we are certain that the person to whom we disclose your personal data is really you.
We will do our utmost to respond to all legitimate requests within a one-month time frame from the submission of a request. If your request is particularly complex, or if you have made multiple requests in a certain time period, it may take us a little longer. In such a case, we will notify you of this extension.