Privacy Policy

We don't like spam.

That's the basis of our privacy policy. It is our goal to ensure that you don't get any more because of this website.

Contributors vs. Visitors

PokerReviewsVegas has two types of site users - those who have at one time or another submitted a review to our site or posted on our forum ("Contributors"), and those who aren’t.

As a site Visitor, your visits to the website are logged in our active site logging tool (the Site Log). This tool provides us with pertinent information - not about you, but about the numbers you represent - it counts the pages you visit, it counts the times someone from your IP (it could be you, it could be someone else on your ISP) visit the site. It also looks to see what link you clicked to arrive at this site. (known as 'referrer'). One thing it doesn't do is personally identify you for our records - you are more or less "anonymous".

Our Content Management Analysis also tracks what reviews you've read, and what site comments you've read. Again, this is completely anonymous: think of a "take a number" sign that is changing. That's all your visit to our site does - ticks another click on that number counter.

PokerReviewsVegas Contributors

If you have submitted a review or comment as a PokerReviewsVegas Contributor, we have probably asked you for your email address and if there is a mail out promotion, your mailing address. This is the only additional information we would have above what we have for Visitors.

We store information about you in our secure database. There are many reasons why, and none of them have to do for profit reasons:

1. Database Data Collection: Contributors' information, including private and public email addresses, and other associated information entered by you, either voluntary or required information, is stored in our "site user" database. This database is highly secure.

2. Database Usage: Our site user database is used within the PokerReviewsVegas website in many ways: to fill out your profile page should anyone click on your name in a discussion board comment; to prefill in certain fields when you write a product review; to identify you when you post a comment; to track what reviews and articles you've voted on (so you cannot vote twice); to know when you have written a review; and other ways. One way our database is never used is outside the PokerReviewsVegas website, or with anyone not directly working for PokerReviewsVegas: we do not share any of that information on an individual basis with anyone outside our little realm. Only 2 people have access to that full database.

3. Cookies: In addition to the way we use cookies for Visitors, we use your session cookie and permanent cookies based on what you have selected in your preferences. We do not use cookies to get any kind of personal or private information from you.

4. Private email addresses: Why do we ask for your email address? We require one for the sole purpose of having a solid way of contacting you to respond to any questions or suggestions you have asked or commented with. Or if we need to ask you a specific question about your review. We do not harvest, repackage, disseminate, reuse, or sell your private email address to anyone, and we work our hardest to keep it away from those who would abuse it.

5. Usernames vs. Real Names: PokerReviewsVegas asks you for an Author name.
We ask for the Author Name so we can post an identifying name with the Player's Review you submitted. So you can put a pen name, you don't have to put your real name if you aren't comfortable with that.

6. Advertiser Provided Information: We provide potential advertisers with the following information. The good news is, none of it identifies who you are, and none of it is personal and confidential information about any specific person. We tell advertisers, upon request, the following information: how many total members the site has; how many views we have for a) site, b) sections, c) reviews, and d) individual reviews; how many visitor sessions we have in a day, a week, a month, or a year; how many times their specific ads have been a) viewed, and b) clicked; and from time to time, we let them know other site traffic numbers and information on a general basis. This is why we have site logs.

Government Relations and Lawsuits

In some cases, the governments and legal entities (court of law, police subpoena, etc) can compel the disclosure of information about you, and of course PokerReviewsVegas will need to comply. However, irrespective of those situations, PokerReviewsVegas can unilaterally turn over information about you to the government if it believes such disclosure to be appropriate, in which case you authorize it to do so. You also consent to PokerReviewsVegas disclosing information about you to actual or potential parties to a lawsuit that PokerReviewsVegas is or may become involved in (a) if it is required to do so, (b) if it reasonably believes that such disclosures will potentially mitigate its liability, or (c) to enforce its rights.

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, please use our contact form to contact us and we'll do our best to answer them.

A.Sande & A.Silvester
PokerReviewsVegas Editors, January, 2007.