PokerStars Privacy Policy - Secure Poker

Your privacy on the Internet is very important to PokerStars.net. We are committed to maintaining the confidentiality of the personal information collected by us in order to allow you to enjoy playing poker online at PokerStars.net, by safeguarding it utilizing the best in class software and hardware architecture, techniques, methods and procedures.

The purpose of this privacy policy is to enable you to understand how we collect, store, use and safeguard information relating to you and for you to understand your rights in relation to that information.

What information is collected and for what purpose
Confidentiality
Limits of Confidentiality
Who receives your information?
Your rights in relation to your information
Cookies
Consent to Privacy Policy
Who are we?

1. What information is collected and for what purpose
As part of the PokerStars.net Account Opening process, we will ask you to provide us with certain personal information, including a name, postal address, e-mail address and password as well as to certify that you are at least 18 years old or older in jurisdictions in which the minimum age for use of the PokerStars.net services is greater than 18. We will use your personal information to occasionally send you events and news information and to provide you with customer support services. If you no longer wish to receive our newsletters, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each newsletter. The name you register with must be yours.

Players are able to change account details by selecting an Account option in the downloaded software.

2. Confidentiality
PokerStars.net undertakes substantial efforts to protect the confidentiality of the identity, preferences and other information it has collected about individual Players and will not knowingly allow access to this information to anyone outside PokerStars.net, other than to the Player or as described in this Privacy Policy. PokerStars.net has made a substantial investment in its server, database, backup, firewall and encryption technologies to protect the information collected by PokerStars.net.

All PokerStars employees are required to comply with the terms of this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy provides that employees are obligated to keep Player information strictly confidential. This obligation continues once an employee has left our Company.

You should also do your part in protecting your information. Your PokerStars.net Player password is confidential and we recommend that you not divulge it to anyone or enable others to discover it.

3. Limits of Confidentiality
Legally Required Disclosures: Due to the existing legal, regulatory and security environment, PokerStars.net may be required, under certain circumstances, to disclose personally identifiable information about our Players. PokerStars.net will use its best reasonable efforts to limit such disclosure to the following: where PokerStars.net believes in good faith that it is required to do so in response to a subpoena, warrant or other legal process; or where reasonably necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against persons or entities to preserve and/or enforce PokerStars.net rights. Further, we can, and you authorize us to, disclose your Player identification, name, street address, city, state, post code, country, phone number, e-mail, and company to third party agents of PokerStars.net as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement, piracy or other unlawful activity or activity that may expose us to legal liability.

4. Who receives your information?
In addition to legally required disclosures as explained in Section 3 above, we may disclose your personal information to our employees, employees of other companies related to or affiliated with Rational Poker School Limited and to third party service providers who use your personal information to provide services to us in respect of your being a Player with PokerStars.net. All recipients of your personal information shall be bound by applicable data protection laws to keep your personal information private at no less a level than that by which we are bound.

5. Your rights in relation to your information
We aim to keep our information about you as accurate as possible. You can write to us at any time to review, change, obtain a copy of your information or have your details altered or corrected in accordance with your rights under the Data Protection Act 2002. In order to contact us regarding your information please e-mail support@pokerstars.net. We may in certain circumstances levy a small charge to cover the cost of administration regarding any request made by you in this regard.

6. Cookies
We may send you a temporary cookie when you visit www.PokerStars.net website. A cookie is a text-only string of information that we place in your computer's cookie file so that we can remember who you are when you revisit www.PokerStars.net website. We may use the data generated from cookies to compile statistical data on your use of our website. You are not obliged to accept the cookie from us and you have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. Please see www.cookiecentral.com/faq if you require any further information about the placing, use or deletion of cookies.

7. Consent to Privacy Policy
By opening an Account with PokerStars.net you agree to the terms of this PRIVACY POLICY. We may occasionally update this Privacy Policy and encourage you to periodically review it. If we change our privacy policy we will post the changes on this page. Your continued use of the PokerStars.net services constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Policy and any updates. Our terms of service, see www.pokerstars.net/poker/room/terms/, take precedence over any conflicting provision of this Privacy Policy.

8. Who are we?
Rational Poker School Limited,
49 Victoria Street,
Douglas,
Isle of Man,
IM1 2LD.