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The Refusal Index

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France

One help-centre page prints France, and twenty-two clauses repeat it

Sportsbet.io keeps a restricted-jurisdictions page, and France is printed on it. Twenty-two further operators do the same in their own terms, which puts France at 23 of the 38 territorial rolls read on 26 August 2026.

One help-centre page, and twenty-two others

Sportsbet.io publishes its restricted-jurisdictions list on a help-centre page rather than inside the main terms, and France is printed on it. The address is sportsbet.io/ar/help-centre/help-other/help-other-terms-and-conditions/restricted-jurisdictions, read from an archived capture on 26 August 2026. Twenty-two further operators do the same thing in their own documents, which puts France at 23 of the 38 published rolls opened for this index, against fifteen rolls where the French entry is absent and 62 documents that stayed shut.

The brand at the centre of the search runs the other way. Stake’s clause at stake.com/licenses covers one country, the United States, so a reader typing stake alternative from Lyon starts at a document that leaves France out and arrives at twenty-three that print it. That inversion is the ordinary shape of this index: the operator being replaced and the operators offered as replacements answer to different licensing arrangements and publish accordingly.

Twenty-two clauses that print both France and Spain

Nearly every document behind the French count also carries Spain, which makes the two markets a single reading exercise with one exception at each end.

Twenty-two files, all opened on 26 August 2026, nine of them live and thirteen from captures. Two operators go the other way and print Spain while passing over France: Shuffle at shuffle.com/info/terms and Winz.io at winz.io/terms-and-conditions. The Spanish tally reaches 24 for that reason and no other.

The document that prints France and leaves Spain out

Sportsbet.io is the twenty-third entry and the one that separates the two counts.

A brand keeping its territorial roll on a help-centre subpage, in a regional language directory, is worth a note beyond the arithmetic: the roll a reader finds depends on which version of the site the reader lands on, and this index records the address it actually read. Where an operator maintains several regional editions of the same terms, the one captured here is the one printed beside its name, with the date attached.

Fifteen rolls where France is absent

Fifteen rolls were opened on the same day, and the French entry is missing from each of them.

The finding ends there, one clause short of the conclusion a reader would like to draw. A published roll can trail the practice standing behind it, it can be edited between one week and the next, and a payment provider applies its own map of markets after the terms page has said its piece. Verification is a third document again, handing the operator a judgement to use when an account opens and to use once more when a payout is claimed.

The four read rows in the table, and what they hold for France

Twelve operators make up the comparison table below. Four of those rolls were opened here, and France stays outside every one of them.

Shuffle prints fifteen countries at shuffle.com/info/terms, among them Spain and Germany, while France stays out of that fifteen. Bets.io prints forty-two at www.bets.io/en/terms-and-conditions, and France is absent from the forty-two. Stake covers one country and Cloudbet covers two, and France is absent from both. The other eight rows are blank, which is a different state again and the one most easily misread.

So a French reader meets four quiet documents and eight unopened ones in a single table, the arrangement that tempts a comparison site into inventing a green tick. Quiet describes wording somebody read; blank describes wording nobody reached.

What each operator publishes about itself: the company named on the licence, the permit number and where it was read, how many countries the operator excludes in its own terms, and when identity documents are demanded. The country count is the length of a list the operator published, not our estimate of where it will accept you. An empty cell means the document was not read — it is not a zero, and it is not a permission.

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  • OperatorTechOptions Group B.V.
  • LicenceCuraçao no number
  • Countries barredlist not read
  • Before ID checkcase by case
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Stake
  • OperatorMedium Rare N.V.
  • LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
  • Countries barred1
  • Before ID checkcase by case
Shuffle
  • OperatorNatural Nine B.V.
  • LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
  • Countries barred15
  • Before ID checkcase by case
BC.Game
  • Operatornot published
  • LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
  • Countries barred0
  • Before ID checknot published
Roobet
  • Operatornot published
  • Licencenot published
  • Countries barred0
  • Before ID checknot published
Rollbit
  • Operatornot published
  • Licencenot published
  • Countries barred0
  • Before ID checknot published
Duelbits
  • OperatorLiquid Entertainment N.V.
  • LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
  • Countries barred0
  • Before ID checknot published
Bets.io
  • OperatorTechno Wave Systems S.R.L.
  • LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
  • Countries barred42
  • Before ID checkcase by case
Cloudbet
  • OperatorHalcyon Super Holdings B.V.
  • LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
  • Countries barred2
  • Before ID checkcase by case
MyStake
  • Operatornot published
  • LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
  • Countries barred0
  • Before ID checknot published
TrustDice
  • Operatornot published
  • LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
  • Countries barred0
  • Before ID checknot published
BetFury
  • OperatorUniverse B Games B.V.
  • LicenceCuraçao Gaming Authority
  • Countries barred0
  • Before ID checknot published

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Where the reading stops

Sixty-two rolls in this library remain closed. Some addresses have moved, some terms sit behind a login, some archives hold nothing for the page in question, and some files are further down the queue than the French market required.

Those rows carry an empty cell, and the emptiness counts as zero refusals in one sense alone: zero documents were opened. It moves nobody in either direction on this site. The reading method describes what would take an operator out of that group.

A clause written by one party, a law written by another

Every number above came out of a contract, and a contract has an author with an interest. A territorial roll manages an operator’s licensing exposure, its payment routing and how badly it wants a given market, and it is amended whenever any of the three shifts.

French law has other authors, other purposes and other readers, and no position on it is taken anywhere on this site. The two get merged because a refusal met on a screen wears an official tone that a commercial decision has borrowed. A reader who wants that question settled should put it to the bodies and statutes that answer it, while this index carries on counting clauses.

Questions people actually type

How many operators write France into their own territorial clause?
Twenty-three of the 38 whose clause has been read for this index. Nine of those documents were open on the operator's site on 26 August 2026 and fourteen came from archived captures, and every address is printed on this page.
Does the operator people want an alternative to name France?
Stake's clause at stake.com/licenses runs to one country, the United States, so France is absent from it. It was read on 26 August 2026 from an archived capture. That absence is a statement about Stake's wording on that day.
Why do France and Spain end up one apart?
Twenty-two rolls print both. Sportsbet.io prints France and leaves Spain out, while Shuffle and Winz.io print Spain and leave France out. Three documents out of thirty-eight produce the entire difference between 23 and 24.
Fifteen rolls leave France out. What does that support?
One sentence: France is absent from a roll published and read on 26 August 2026. Those rolls carry no undertaking, they are revised commercially, and the verification and payment conditions attached to an account are governed by other clauses entirely.

The reading behind this page continues at the index of refusals, and on the pages for Germany, Australia and the United Kingdom.