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Six beliefs, checked

What signing out does not do

Six things people expect a sign-out to do, checked one at a time against the samples. Four are false, one is partly true, and one is true.

Open the partner accountWhat signing out does not do
Session spec
beliefs
6
false
4
partly
1
true
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the sessionThe interval between signing in and being signed out. It holds your authenticated use of the account and nothing else; the balance, the bets and the limits are held by the account and survive it.
the two clocksThe idle clock runs from your last counted action and restarts; the absolute lifetime runs from the sign-in and never restarts. On the samples 30 minutes and 12 hours, and the earlier one always decides.
the tokenWhat a persistent sign-in leaves on a device, so the next visit needs no password. On the samples 30 days - 1,440 idle windows - and only a sign-out or a revocation removes it.
Direct answer

Signing out ends the interval and does not touch the account. It does not void a bet, freeze a balance, stop a market, clear a device by itself or hide the account from anyone who has the password. It does remove a persistent token on that device, and that is the one belief on this page that is wholly true.

Six beliefs, one at a time

Belief 1 - closing the tab signs me out

On the samples a tab closed at 10:11 and reopened at 13:11 came back signed in, because the token had not been removed and the interval had not been ended by a person.

false

Belief 2 - a sign-out voids the bet I had open

The bet is held by the account. On sample E it settled 440 minutes after placement, all of it after the session had ended.

false

Belief 3 - a sign-out freezes or rings-fences the balance

Nothing about the balance changes. It is held by the account, and a settlement can move it while nobody is signed in.

false

Belief 4 - the clock resets when I sign back in

Both clocks do start again, but the persistent token is unchanged, and the record keeps the old lines - so the account is not in the state it was in before.

partly

Belief 5 - nobody can use the account from this device afterwards

Signing out does remove the token on that device, which is exactly the action the shared-device page recommends. This one holds.

true

Belief 6 - signing out hides my balance from the operator

The operator holds the balance and the record either way. A sign-out changes what you can see, never what is held.

false
the six beliefs, counted false = beliefs 1, 2, 3, 6 → 4 of 6 partly = belief 4 → 1 of 6 true = belief 5 → 1 of 6 all four false beliefs share one mistake: they treat the interval as if it were the account. The one true belief is the one that names the token.

Why the mistakes run the same way

Each false belief assumes the sign-out reaches further than it does: to the bet, to the balance, to the operator's record, to the machine. The reason they run the same way is that the visible thing and the held thing are different objects, and only the visible one changes. A reader who keeps the account and the session apart gets all six right without memorising anything, which is why the distinction is the desk's first page rather than its last.

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