Company: ACEL
Filing Date: 2025-03-03
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001698991-25-000011
Chunk: 157

Company: Accel Entertainment, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-03-03
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 157
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 significant debate over, and opposition to, the gaming industry. There can be no assurance that this opposition will not succeed in preventing the legalization of gaming in jurisdictions where it is presently prohibited, prohibiting or limiting the expansion of gaming where it is currently permitted, including expansion of gaming terminals into additional types of establishments, or causing the repeal of legalized gaming in any jurisdiction. Such opposition could also lead these jurisdictions to adopt legislation or impose a regulatory framework to govern gaming that restricts our ability to advertise games or substantially increases costs to comply with these regulations. We continue to devote significant attention to monitoring these developments; however, we cannot accurately predict the likelihood, timing, scope or terms of any state or federal legislation or regulation relating to its business. Any successful effort to curtail the expansion of, or limit or prohibit, legalized gaming could have an adverse effect on our results of operations, cash flows and financial condition.

Our success depends on the security and integrity of the systems and products offered, and security breaches, including cybersecurity breaches, or other disruptions could compromise certain information and expose us to liability, which could cause our business and reputation to suffer.

We believe that our success depends, in large part, on providing secure products, services and systems to locations and players, and on the ability to avoid, detect, replicate and correct software and hardware anomalies and fraudulent manipulation of products and services. Our business sometimes involves the storage, processing and transmission of proprietary, confidential and personal information, and any future player program we may institute will also involve such information. We also maintain certain other proprietary and confidential information relating to our business and personal information of our personnel. All of our products, services and systems are designed with security features to prevent fraudulent activity. Despite these security measures, our products, services and systems may be vulnerable to attacks by location partners, players, retailers, vendors or employees, or breaches due to cyber-attacks, viruses, malicious software, computer hacking, security breaches or other disruptions. Expanded use of the Internet and other interactive technologies may result in increased security risks for us and our location partners because the techniques used to obtain unauthorized access, disable or degrade service, or sabotage systems change frequently and often are not foreseeable or recognized until launched against a target and we may be unable to anticipate these techniques or to implement adequate preventative measures. Furthermore, hackers and data thieves are becoming increasingly sophisticated and could operate large-scale and complex automated attacks. Any security breach or incident could result in unauthorized access to, misuse of, or unauthorized acquisition of certain data, the loss, corruption or alteration of this