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Disclaimer
Most gambling sites bury this page. We would rather you read it before you deposit than after something goes wrong.
1. We are an offshore operator
Smokos Casino operates under a gaming licence issued in Curaçao. We are not licensed by the Australian Communications and Media Authority, by any state or territory gambling regulator, or by any other Australian authority. No Australian body supervises this service, audits it or holds our funds.
2. The Interactive Gambling Act 2001
Under the Interactive Gambling Act 2001 (Cth) it is an offence for an operator to provide online casino games to a person physically present in Australia. The prohibition is aimed at operators and advertisers rather than individual players, so an Australian commits no offence by having a punt. What does not change is the legal standing of the service being played on, which is exactly as described above.
Australia does not issue online casino licences to anyone. Only wagering, lotteries and land-based gambling are licensed here. There is no such thing as an Australian-licensed online casino, and any site claiming to hold one is lying.
3. ACMA and access blocking
ACMA maintains a list of prohibited gambling services and can ask internet providers to block access to them. Providers in Australia act on those requests. If access to this site is blocked, you may be unable to reach your account from an Australian connection.
We will not publish advice on getting around a block, and we ask you not to look for it. If it happens, contact support from another channel and we will deal with your balance.
4. What it means for disputes
- Complaints go through our internal process and then to our licensing authority in Curaçao.
- No Australian ombudsman, regulator or consumer body has jurisdiction over an account held here.
- Consumer protections that apply to Australian-licensed wagering operators do not apply to us.
- BetStop, the national self-exclusion register, reaches Australian-licensed wagering providers only. Signing up there leaves an account here open, so the self-exclusion switch in your own settings is the one that bites.
5. Gambling is not an investment
Every game here carries a house edge, which means the expected long-run result of playing is a loss. Return-to-player percentages are long-run averages across millions of rounds, calculated by the game supplier, and they say nothing about what will happen in your session. No system, staking plan or pattern changes the mathematics.
Nothing on this site is financial advice, and money staked here should be money you can lose without it mattering.
6. Your responsibility
You are responsible for knowing the law that applies where you live and for any tax consequences of your winnings in your own jurisdiction. You must be 18 or over. If gambling is causing you harm, stop and call the National Gambling Helpline on 1800 858 858 — free, confidential, 24 hours a day.
7. Accuracy of this site
Game counts, payment methods, processing times and promotional terms change. We keep this site current and date every legal page, but the conditions displayed inside your account at the moment you act are the ones that apply. Where this site and your account disagree, your account is correct.
8. Nothing here is financial advice
This site describes a form of entertainment, not a way of making money. Nothing on it is financial, investment, tax or legal advice, and nothing on it should be read as a recommendation about how much to stake or when.
Whether winnings are taxable where you live, and whether holding an account with an offshore operator has any consequence for you, are questions for a professional in your own jurisdiction rather than for us.
9. Who actually runs the games
The games are built and operated by licensed third-party studios. We license them and present them in our lobby; we do not write them, we cannot alter an outcome, a paytable or a return-to-player setting, and we have no way to make a specific spin behave differently.
Return-to-player figures are published by the studio that built the game and are long-run averages calculated across enormous numbers of rounds. They describe the game, not your session, and they are best used for comparing one title with another.
10. Availability
We aim to keep the site up around the clock and we do not promise it. Maintenance, a studio outage, a payment provider going down or a network fault can all interrupt access, sometimes without notice.
A round interrupted by an outage is settled from the server log once service returns: completed rounds stand, incomplete rounds are void and the stake goes back. Your balance is not affected by downtime.
11. Links to other sites
Where we link out, it is because the destination is useful: a support service, a regulator, a helpline. We do not control those sites and we are not responsible for what they publish or how they handle your data.
We take no payment for the responsible-gambling and regulator links on this site. They are there because they should be.
12. Changes to the service
Games come and go as licences change. Payment methods are added and withdrawn by the providers themselves. Promotions run and end. None of this requires individual notice, though anything that affects money already in your account does, and it comes through the account first.
13. Limits and jurisdiction
We are liable for what we control: your balance, the settlement of rounds on our platform, the handling of your data. We are not liable for losses arising from your own play, from a connection you do not control, from a device somebody else has access to, or from events outside our reasonable control. Nothing here limits liability that the law does not allow to be limited.
Disputes are governed by the law of the jurisdiction in which our licence is issued, and are dealt with through the complaints route in our terms.