ThePokerWeb is committed to protecting your privacy Online. Please read the following statement to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of the ThePokerWeb Website. If you have any questions regarding our privacy statement, feel free to contact us by e-mail, Webmaster@ThePokerWeb.com .

Gathering of Information:

ThePokerWeb does not collect personally identifying information about any individual except when knowingly provided by such individual. For example, we may ask you for information when you want to download software, register for a contest or survey or to receive a Newsletter. You will always have the option not to provide the information we request. If you choose not to provide the information we request, you can still visit most of ThePokerWeb.

Cookies:

A Cookie is a small Data file created by a Web Browser to save user information written to your computers Hard Drive when you visit various sites. A Cookie file can contain information, such as a user identification code, that the site uses to track the pages you have visited. ThePokerWeb uses Cookies solely to track user traffic patterns throughout the ThePokerWeb Website. We use this Data on an anonymous basis and we do not correlate this information with Personal Data of any user.

Browser Level Information:

ThePokerWeb Web Servers automatically collect information about a site user's IP address, browser type and referrer by reading this information from the user's browser (information provided by every user's browser). This information is collected in a Database and used--in an aggregated, anonymous manner--in our internal analysis of traffic patterns within our Website. This information is automatically logged by most Websites.

Use of Information:

Our primary goal in collecting user information is to enhance your experience on our Website. We achieve this goal by, among other things, providing interactive communications such as our Electronic Newsletters to the e-mail address that you provide to us, and developing future editorial content based on your interests. To develop content targeted to your interests, we use aggregated user information to determine which areas of our Website user's prefer, based upon traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but instead how well each page or content area performs overall.

Persons under 18:

Do not send any information about yourself to us, including information such as your name, address, telephone number, or e-mail address. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from persons under 18. In the event that we learn we have collected any personal information from a person under the age of 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information from our Database as quickly as possible.

IP Address:

Every computer connected to the Internet has a numeric address called an “IP address”; IP stands for Internet Protocol. This may or may not correspond uniquely to a particular computer. In some cases, IP addresses can be resolved to Domain Names, which may indicate a site visitor's Internet Service Provider (ISP), employer, university, etc. As part of its Database analysis ThePokerWeb resolves IP addresses to Domain Names.