How to Check if a Casino Shares Your Data

Wondered who could see my gambling activity last year. Not just the casino—who else had access to my betting patterns, deposit amounts, game preferences? Submitted a formal data request to find out.

Thirty days later, I received a PDF showing eight separate companies had received portions of my player data: payment processors, game providers, marketing platforms, fraud prevention services, analytics firms, and their licensing authority. All legal, all disclosed somewhere in their privacy policy, all completely invisible to me until I specifically asked.

That’s when I learned most players have no idea how widely casinos share their data—or how to check what’s actually being shared and with whom.

The Data Request Process

European GDPR laws and similar regulations in other jurisdictions give you the right to request all data a company holds about you. Casinos must comply within 30 days.

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Privacy policies live in website footers. Click it, then search the document for “Your Rights” or “Data Subject Requests.” You’ll find an email address for these requests. Mine said: ‘Under GDPR Article 15, I request a copy of all personal data you hold about me, including details of any third parties with whom this data has been shared.’ Simple as that.

Include your account username, registered email, and a way to verify your identity. Within 30 days, they must provide everything.

What the Response Reveals

My data request returned far more than I expected. Basic information—name, address, payment methods—was obvious. But the detailed sections showed: complete betting history with timestamps and amounts, every game I’d played with session durations, win/loss ratios calculated by game type, device information, and IP addresses for every login, bonus claims and wagering progress, and support ticket conversations verbatim.

More importantly, a section listed “Data Recipients”—every company that had received my information. The payment processor got transaction data. 1X2gaming slots (the provider with 90+ games founded in 2002, UKGC and MGA licensed, featuring Megaways and Hold & Win mechanics with up to x45,000 max multipliers) received aggregate playing data for their titles. Marketing platforms have behavioral data. Each recipient is listed with dates of data sharing.

This transparency only exists because I asked. Without the formal request, I’d never know who saw my gambling activity.

Reading Privacy Policies Effectively

Most players never read casino privacy policies—they’re deliberately dense legal documents. But specific sections reveal data sharing practices.

Search the privacy policy PDF for these terms: “third parties,” “data processors,” “sharing,” “recipients,” and “partners.” These sections list who gets your data.

Look for vague language like “trusted partners” or “service providers.” That means they’re sharing data but not specifying with whom. Some privacy policies name actual companies: “We share data with Evolution Gaming, Trustly, and Google Analytics.”

Check if they mention “anonymized” versus “pseudonymized” data. Anonymized data strips identifying information completely. Pseudonymized data replaces your name with an ID number, but can still be traced back to you—it’s less protective.

Controlling What Gets Shared

After seeing who had my data, I looked for ways to limit sharing. Most casinos offer these options buried in account settings: marketing preferences (stop sharing data with advertising partners), analytics opt-out (prevent behavioral tracking for site optimization), third-party game providers (some casinos let you block data sharing with specific game developers), and payment data storage (delete saved card information to prevent it from sitting in their database).

Found these settings under “Privacy Preferences” in my account dashboard. Changed marketing consent from “yes” to “no.” The casino confirmed they’d stop sharing behavioral data with advertising networks—though game providers and payment processors would still receive necessary operational data.

What You Can’t Control

Some data sharing is mandatory for casino operations. Payment processors must receive transaction information to process deposits. Game providers need session data to run their titles properly. Licensing authorities require casinos to share player information for regulatory compliance. Fraud prevention networks access account details to protect against stolen cards and bonus abuse.

These operational requirements mean you can’t completely stop data sharing while gambling online. But you can verify it’s limited to necessary parties rather than sold to dozens of marketing companies.

Verification Steps

After requesting my data, I took additional steps to verify accuracy. Checked which companies were listed as data recipients, then searched each company’s name plus “privacy policy” to see what they do with casino data. Contacted two data recipients directly, asking what information they held about me. Both confirmed only receiving the specific data types listed in the casino’s disclosure.

This verification proved the casino’s data request response was accurate—they actually disclosed everyone who’d received my information.

Most players never check if casinos share their data. One formal request revealed eight companies had accessed my gambling history, all legally disclosed in privacy policies I’d never read. Send a data request to your casino. Check the list of data recipients. Adjust privacy settings to limit unnecessary sharing. And while it’s impossible to stop all data sharing, at least you can know exactly who sees your gambling activity—and that awareness is more important than most players realize.