iGaming Website Platform Operation
In the last two decades, online gambling has become one of the fastest-growing industries in the world. Millions of people gamble every day on various platforms and if you plan on becoming one of them, The backbone of online gambling is web-based platforms, called online casinos. This is where all games are hosted and where you can play against the casino or other players. To access them, you will need three things: a device (a computer, mobile phone, or a tablet), a working internet connection, and money.
There are currently 21 names in this directory beginning with the letter P.
Password
A word, phrase, or string of characters used to authenticate a user. When combined with the username, the password is intended to prove the identity of the user for access to computer resource.
Path Length
Google Analytics measures path length to summarize how long, in interactions, it takes visitors to your ecommerce site to become customers.
PD (Player Development)
This definition varies widely; it is used to describe the internal department and functionality of casino hosts. In actuality, it is everything involved in increasing loyalty and therefore the RFM of each player. This includes one-to-one service, personalized benefits, direct mail offers and copy, etc. Similar to a sales team effort, it encompasses all activities by the casino host department to increase loyalty and revenue from high worth guests.
Personal Data
Information held on file about a customer that makes it possible to identify this customer as a specific individual/organization. Personal data may include names, contact information (address, email, phone number), SSN, tax ID, etc. It is recommended to avoid unnecessary copying, replication, and distribution when handling personal data (e.g. logging, backups creation in other environments). It’s acceptable to store personal data in an unencrypted format. However, it should be transmitted encrypted.
Player Type
Usually used as a stratification tool based on distance of residence or by arrival type. Examples include local, junket (bus), group (convention), destination, etc.
Postforma / Proforma
A document that measures the profitability of a specific program. This includes all program-specific expenses and revenue. Preforma is a similar document that is used for forecasting a program's profitability.
Pre-commitment
Pre-commitment is used to refer to mechanisms by which players of pokies can set limits on their spending or time spent gambling. One method involves a card that is inserted into a machine, which will stop the machine from continuing to play when the pre-set limit is reached.
Preforma
A document that projects the profitability of a specific program. This includes all program-specific expenses and forecasted revenue. Postforma is a similar document that is used for measuring acutal profitability of a program.
Prevalence Rate
In epidemiology, the prevalence rate is a measure of the total number of cases (for example, of problem gambling) in a given population at a designated time and includes new and existing cases. The prevalence rate should not be confused with the incidence rate, which refers to the number of new cases in a defined population in a given time period.
Prevalence Study
Gambling prevalence studies take a cross-sectional snapshot of gambling behaviours in a given population. Data is collected through surveys, which include questions on attitudes to gambling, demographic characteristics of gamblers and gambling behaviour.
Private Key
A private key that only its owner should have access to. The public key corresponds to the private key.
Privilege Abuse
Using computer system access privileges in an abusive manner. Examples include a system administrator accessing card data for malicious purposes, or someone stealing and using an administrator’s elevated access privileges for malicious purposes.
Professional Services
GamingSoft can provide additional services to its customers such as extra integration services/migrations/consolidations, game client brandings, business intelligence,
Public Key Certificate
Public key information, usually including the key itself, digitally signed by an individual or organization. A certificate protects the integrity of a key if the person or organization that signed it is well known and their public keys are widely available.
Public Key Cryptography
This is an encryption scheme that does not require a confidential channel to establish confidential communication. To send a confidential message, you only need the recipient's public key, which will decrypt the received message with his secret key.
Public Key Encryption
This is an encryption method designed to overcome the main disadvantage of symmetric cryptography - the need to have a reliable channel to transmit the key to the addressee.