Social Responsibility
A Canadian-owned private company, Techlink Entertainment is setting global industry standards for responsibility and innovation.
We constantly strive for excellence. We ask questions, challenge assumptions, and explore players’ motivations and desires. This approach allows us to anticipate what players want, what will make their gaming experiences better, and what will make the industry that serves them even more responsible, sustainable and profitable. It is also an inherent part of our commitment to responsibility.
We put our players’ needs first, including their safety. We empower them with world-first responsible gambling tools, intuitive programming, and a variety of options to suit their lifestyle. We rely on their input, along with advice from recognized industry experts from around the world, to create products they can enjoy in a responsible way. Our commitments to transparency, research, innovation, responsibility and sustainability are woven through everything we do.
Gambling is a form of entertainment that should be safe and secure for adults around the world to be able to enjoy. For the gaming industry to be sustained and to earn respect, we believe it’s critical that responsibility be balanced with profitability – from concept to execution, with every product, every time. That’s why we encourage players to stay within their limits, arm them with personalized information and tools, and create strategic alliances with organizations who can help raise the profile of responsible gambling around the world.
At Techlink, social responsibility isn’t just one person’s job; it’s something we all champion every single day. It’s not something one department invests in; it’s something every aspect of our organization believes. It’s not one section of our business plan; it’s what our entire business is built on.
For us, social responsibility is not a project; it’s who we are.
Research Advisory Board
Techlink is launching a new Research Advisory Board to help the company continue its leadership as the top responsible gambling technology company in the world.
This Board brings together the expertise of dynamic academic leaders in a rapidly globalizing gambling research world, ensuring comprehensive and thoughtful coverage of the most important issues that arise in key international settings. Techlink is taking this world-first and extraordinary step to ensure that responsibility takes center stage in all of the company's decisions and products.
Techlink's Research Advisory Board is officially launched, and will begin operations in January 2012. The Board will be chaired by Dr. Bo Bernhard and its members will include four of the top gambling researchers in the world.
The Board's members include:
Dr. Bo J. Bernhard, Ph.D.
Jeffrey L. Derevensky, Ph.D.
Dr. Sally Gainsbury, Ph.D, Doctor.ClinPsych, BPsych (Hons)
Richard T.A. Wood, Ph.D. C. Psychol
In addition, the Board will have one honorary member:
Desmond Lam, Ph.D.
We are committed to being the best in the world and this Responsible Gambling Research Advisory Board will help make sure we are transparent, accountable, responsible and make business decisions based on the best possible research.
The tremendous expertise brought by these board members will take our company's commitment to responsible gambling to the highest possible level. This will ensure we continue to break new ground and lead the way in best-practices.
