HoldemGenius.com Privacy Policy

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HoldemGenius.com respects your privacy. HoldemGenius.com has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to our users' privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for our web site.

COLLECTION OF INFORMATION

Information is collected from our users at several different points during their visit to our web site.

Registration - A user must register in order to use this web site. During registration, a user is required to provide certain information, such as name, e-mail address and credit card or PayPal information necessary to make payments.

HoldemGenius.com connects the user's computer to the HoldemGenius.com server to obtain card location information in the card rooms so auto-read can work and for the purposes of software fraud prevention. While doing so, we use the registration code combined with your hard drive ID to log in.

Optional Information - At various other points during your visit to HoldemGenius.com, you may be asked to provide information about yourself. For example, you may wish to participate in a survey or a contest. Participation in surveys or contests or the use of other services that require the input of additional information is completely voluntary on your part, and you have the choice about whether to disclose the information necessary to use these features of our web site.

Passive Collection of Information - In addition to the information that you actively provide to us, we collect information about how you interact with our web site. HoldemGenius.com collects passive information in order to improve a user's experience at the web site and to compile broad aggregate demographic data and related usage information for internal purposes and for disclosure to third parties, such as advertisers and content partners. The types of passive information collected by this web site may include IP addresses, the type of browser being used, pages visited, and how long a user stays on our web site. Our web site logs are not personally identifiable, and we make no attempt to link them with the individuals who actually browse the web site.

Collection of Information from Children - HoldemGenius.com abides by federal law and the guidelines set up by the Federal Trade Commission regarding youth privacy, and we will not knowingly collect any personal information from, or allow the registration of people under the age of 18. You must be of legal age in the city, province, state or country in which you are located, when visiting our site, before using the services offered on or through our site.

Tell-A-Friend Gram - From time to time you may be able to choose to let a friend know about HoldemGenius.com through our Tell-A-Friend referral service. If you choose to use the Tell-A-Friend service, we will ask you for your friend's name and e-mail address and we will send your friend an e-mail inviting him or her to visit HoldemGenius.com to learn more about our services. HoldemGenius.com stores your friend's contact information for the sole purpose of sending that e-mail.

USE OF INFORMATION

HoldemGenius.com may use your information in order to customize our web site and enhance your overall experience at our web site. HoldemGenius.com tries to recognize you using various methods. Once HoldemGenius.com recognizes you, pages, advertisements and other content are customized for you so that you can see what interests you most. In addition, as described above, HoldemGenius.com utilizes passive information to learn more about how you interact with our web site. This passive information may be combined with your other information for purposes such as testing and improving your experience at our web site and the compilation of broad aggregate demographic data and related usage information for internal purposes and for disclosure to third parties, such as advertisers and content partners. This aggregate passive information does not contain any personal information that can identify an individual user.

Contacting You by E-Mail - HoldemGenius.com may use your contact information periodically in order to send you e-mails regarding updates at the HoldemGenius.com web site, such as new HoldemGenius.com opportunities and additional listings that may be of interest to you. The frequency of these messages will vary depending upon your file. In addition, we may send you free informational newsletters or notices relating to topics that may be of special interest to you. Finally, if you specifically provide HoldemGenius.com with permission at the time of registration, you may also receive commercial e-mails. Out of respect for the privacy of our users, we allow you to opt-out of receiving newsletters and/or commercial e-mails whenever such messages are sent by HoldemGenius.com, as described below. E-mail messages from third parties are not governed by the opt-out provisions of this Privacy Policy, but all such third parties are strongly encouraged to include opt-out procedures in their messages to you.

SHARING OF INFORMATION

HoldemGenius.com will not knowingly sell, rent, trade, lease or otherwise transfer any personal information collected at our web site other than in accordance with the terms set forth in this Privacy Policy.

During the registration process, and at certain points thereafter in connection with specific offers, HoldemGenius.com may ask you whether information about you may be sent to third parties who have products, services and opportunities which may be useful to you. HoldemGenius.com understands how important your information is to you. Therefore, HoldemGenius.com does not share any information that can be tied to you without your permission. If you give your permission to allow third parties to contact you, personal information about you (such as your contact information and other information collected during your visit to HoldemGenius.com) may be shared with data aggregators, marketers (possibly in the form of list rental), and other organizations. Regardless of your decision regarding the sharing of your personal information, we may share broad aggregate demographic data and related usage information with our business partners. This aggregate information does not contain any personal information that can identify an individual user.

Third-Party Service Providers - From time to time, HoldemGenius.com may decide that it is more efficient to use third parties to perform specific services, such as sending newsletters to our users. If we use a third party to provide specific services (such as sending newsletters to our users on our behalf), then information (such as contact information) may be shared with that party to the extent necessary for the third-party to provide these services. These third-party service providers are only allowed to use personally identifiable information for the purpose of providing the specific services requested by HoldemGenius.com. The third-party services covered by this paragraph do not include links to third-party web sites found on our web site. Such links are governed by a more specific provision (see Links to Other Web Sites) below.

Disclosure to Law Enforcement and Similar Disclosures - While HoldemGenius.com strives to protect the personal information of its users, we will release personal information if required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary or appropriate.

USE OF COOKIES

HoldemGenius.com does use cookies on its web site, mostly in order to track traffic coming from other web sites and leaving to other web sites. We do not use the cookies to attempt to link them with individuals to make any information personally identifiable.

In addition, we carefully select third party advertising companies and allow them to collect non-personally identifiable information by placing cookies when you choose to visit them and when you visit our web site. These selected companies may use information (but not including your name, address, credit card information, e-mail address, or telephone number) about your choice to visit and your visits to our web site and other web sites to provide advertisements about our products and services on this and other web sites. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about no longer having information from these third party cookies used by these companies or provided to us, click here

USE OF PIXELS

HoldemGenius.com shares web site usage information about visitors to our web site, who have received a targeted promotional campaign, with a reputable third-party advertising company for the purpose of targeting future campaigns and upgrading visitor information used in reporting statistics. For this purpose, we and our third-party advertising company note some of the pages you visit on our web site through the use of pixel tags (also called clear gifs). For more information about our third-party advertising company, please click here.

SECURITY

HoldemGenius.com has security measures in place to help protect against the loss, misuse and/or unauthorized alteration of the information under its control.

If you have any questions about security issues at our web site, please send an e-mail to privacy@holdemgenius.com, and we will try to answer your questions.

OTHER PROVISIONS

Acceptance of Terms/Changes to Privacy Policy - Your use of this web site indicates an acceptance of the terms of the Privacy Policy. HoldemGenius.com reserves the right to update or amend this Privacy Policy at any time without notice to its users.

Disclaimer - Please click here for our disclaimer.

Other - In the event that HoldemGenius.com sells, assigns or transfers some or all of its business to a successor or acquirer, HoldemGenius.com may sell, assign or transfer all of your information, regardless of your opt-out status, to such successor or acquirer.

Links to Other Web Sites - This web site contains links to other web sites. Please be aware that HoldemGenius.com does not exercise control over the information, products, services or policies of third-party companies accessible through our web site. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our web site and to read the privacy policies of each and every third-party web site. This Privacy Policy applies solely to the information collected by this web site.

Choice/Opt-out - HoldemGenius.com users are given the opportunity to "opt-out" of having their information used for purposes not related to our web site. You may opt-out from receiving specified types of communications from HoldemGenius.com by clicking here. If you have any questions relating to opting-out, please contact us at support@holdemgenius.com, and we will try to answer your questions.

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