One of the best thing about free spins offers is that there are so many available, that you are almost certain to find an offer that you can access, even if you have activated many similar offers in the past.
However, that doesn't mean that you can go on activating free spins offers ad-infinitum regardless of what the offer is and which casino is making the offer.
Of course, to ensure that these promotions are taken up fairly by the targeted people, casinos do have to have pretty strict rules in place regarding exactly who can access these offers and at times, it is easy to fall foul of these rules, sometimes inadvertently.
So in this post, we'll examine how free spins offers are now organised and why sometimes you may be eligible for one offer on a site such as this, but perhaps not eligible for another.
The key rules regarding free spins offers
In order to understand why you may be eligible for some free spins offers and not others, there are a couple of key rules you need to understand before you go any further.
1. You must be aged 18, or of legal gambling age in your place of residence, to participate in any free spins (or gambling-based) offer.
Obviously this is a key issue. If you are not old enough to gamble legally, then you should not be gambling at all and if you cannot provide the forms of age verification that casinos may ask for in order to permit you to play, then you may not receive the offer.
Online casinos are particularly wary of the problem of underage gambling and the most responsible sites will take great steps in order to ensure that underage players are not able to access the offers and games on the site.
As such, if you are not yet of legal age to gamble wherever your place of residence is, then click off the page and come back in a couple of years when you are!
2. You must register with the site fully to get your free spins
Long gone are the days when a new user could log into the site, provide them with just the barest information and then receive their bonus. Now the industry is much more strictly regulated and controlled and in order to offer you free spins and many other different types of promotions, casinos need information from you to ensure you are who you say you are.
Therefore, in order to release free spins, most casinos will want the player to register fully with the casino. This means putting in not just your personal details, such as your name, address, phone number, email and username, but also putting in financial details too.
Now at this point, many customers wonder why to access a 'free' offer the casino needs credit or debit card details, or bank details. Well, the truth is actually not as sinister as you would think. Owning a credit card, debit card or certain type of bank account is often a useful way for the casino to perform an age check against the user. It also allows them to check you are who you say you are and is an excellent method to help combat fraudulent use of the offers.
The casino does not need your bank details in order to make you pay for the free spins at any point. The offer is completely free and only you can authorise transfers to and from your credit or debit card to the casino, the casino cannot authorise any of these payments without your consent.
The other benefit of registering your financial details with the casino is that if and when you do decide to deposit, you can do so quickly and easily and better still, if you land a big win and want to withdraw, you can usually do so (provided you have met any withdrawal requirements beforehand).
3. You have to use your free spins within an allotted time
It may sound strange but many people register for a site and receive free spins as their bonus and then actually forget that they have them! They may deposit cash immediately and start playing real money games and then only recall that they have been allocated free spins at a later date.
This is dangerous as all free spins offers have a 'use by' date. This can vary depending on casino but most are around 1-2 weeks in length. If you don't use your free spins in that time, then you'll lose them, so make sure you use them!
4. Once you have one free spin offer from a specific casino, you cannot realise another with the same casino
Perhaps the golden rule for players who want to take up multiple free spins offers. If you join a casino which offers free spins as an offer on a specified slot (or slots), then you cannot then take up a different introductory free spins offer that the same casino may offer at a later date.
Casinos can and do take every precaution to stop user creating multiple accounts, or accessing multiple introductory offers from the same account and even if you manage to create an account and get your free spins, if you win anything then you'll run the risk of losing any winnings through fraudulent use.
So this means if your casino offers a new player free spins offer on one slot, and at the same time, or just a few weeks later, offers a similar deal for a different slot, you can only use one of these offers to join that casino, not both.
However, the reverse is also true. If you join a casino and receive 20 free spins on, lets say the Avalon II slot, and then a different casino runs a promotion that offers you 25 free spins on the same slot, then you CAN take advantage of this second offer as it is with a different casino.
The golden rule to remember here is that once you have joined a casino, you cannot get another free spins new player offer at that casino. You can qualify for other free spins offers aimed at existing customers however.
What is important to note here too is that even if you quit playing at a casino and then can't remember your log in, so you rejoin, you cannot access another new player offer. Even if you rejoin under a different name or using a different email.
This is because casinos will often log your unique ISP address when you join and while you can change other information, this pinpoints you on the Internet and allows casinos to stop fraudulent access to these offers.
5. You can have multiple casino accounts and realise free spins offers with all of them
If you like free spins offers then you can open one account with as many different casinos offering free spins for new players as you like. The only limit on this, is the number of free spins deals available and how many you can cope with having.
Good luck!
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