Fresh Horizons Ltd licence and its register

What the Fresh Horizons Ltd licence evidence is

The Commission's list of interactive permit holders names Fresh Horizons Ltd. as an operator with 15 URLs. Of those, one matches a casino covered here: Zodiac, at zodiac.casino. According to the list, the Commission has certified the operators and URLs on it, and the list notes that not all URLs are accessible in all jurisdictions. Its update line reads September 28, 2023, more than three years before the date shown in the record box.

That age is the main limit. Nothing on the list shows what the company holds today. It also gives no address, company number, directors or owners for the company, and it does not state which permit class Fresh Horizons Ltd. holds.

What the Commission's recent notices do not say

The Commission's home and interactive gaming pages carry recent notices, among them a suspension and a voluntary termination involving other companies. None names Fresh Horizons Ltd. The absence says nothing either way about its permit.

The Kahnawà:ke Gaming Commission

The Commission describes itself as the licensing and regulating authority for gaming activity within and from the Mohawk Territory of Kahnawà:ke. It says it was established on 10 June 1996 under the Kahnawake Gaming Law, with three members appointed for two-year terms by the Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke. By its own account it has regulated online gaming since 8 July 1999, when it enacted its Regulations concerning Interactive Gaming.

On what its authority rests, the Commission speaks for itself: it says the Mohawks of Kahnawà:ke assert sovereignty and jurisdiction over their territory, that licensing is part of that, and that a 2007 Superior Court of Québec decision considered its authority favourably. These are the Commission's own statements, and this site has not assessed them.

Permit classes under the Regulations

The Commission says licensed operators must be hosted at the data centre in the territory, which Continent 8 Technologies manages. It lists the aims of the Regulations as games run fairly and honestly, no association with crime, prompt payment of winners, confidential account data and protection of under-18s and vulnerable persons. The Regulations create five kinds of permit:

• the Interactive Gaming Licence, a single licence held by the approved hosting facility, Mohawk Internet Technologies, since 1999;
• the Client Provider Authorization, for entities providing interactive gaming of any type from that facility, with no cap on their number;
• the Key Person Licence, for people with managerial or operational roles, whose details are confidential;
• the Casino Software Provider Authorization;
• the Live Dealer Studio Authorization.

Player protections and complaints

According to the Commission's player pages, sites must give players a way to limit their play, down to zero, and the terms between operator and player must not be unfair or unreasonable. Rules of play are to be posted in English and other appropriate languages. For self-exclusion, a player sends the Commission a Comprehensive Self-Exclusion Request with government identification; the Commission calls the result permanent and irrevocable across all the sites it licenses. Limits are set with the operator directly.

The Commission takes complaints by email or through its form, but the player must first put the complaint to the licence holder. It may stop an investigation or invalidate a complaint that was already settled elsewhere, sits with another jurisdiction, was ruled on, was discussed on a public forum or was given to the media. A full-time Dispute Resolution Officer is on its staff.

Checking the Fresh Horizons Ltd licence

The Commission says that since 15 January 2010 its logo on a licensed site has linked to a generated Certificate of Good Standing, which a player can use to confirm a valid permit. The 2023 list cannot do that, since it gives no status. Beyond that, open the permit holder list, find the company and the exact URL, and see whether the Commission's own pages give a current status.

Limits, and the law in Arab states

This page cannot say whether Fresh Horizons Ltd. operates Zodiac beyond the list entry, what its present status is or who owns it. A permit from Kahnawà:ke also governs the operator under that territory's rules, not the player's own law. Residents of most Arab states cannot lawfully gamble online, and the legality overview gives the position by country. Adults only.