Privacy Policy

Identity of Data Controller. For the purposes of this privacy policy (“ Privacy Policy ”), the “data controller” (i.e. the person responsible for the capture, storage and use of your personal information) is iBus Media Limited ( “iBus ”), who can be contacted at 33-37 Athol Street, Douglas, Isle of Man IM1 1LB or via email at Support. In this Privacy Policy, when we say “ PokerNews ”, we ” or “ us ” we are referring to this company. References to “ Group ” means iBus Media Limited and its subsidiaries and any holding company of iBus and any subsidiary of such holding company and any company associated with its group of companies.

Our Commitment to Our Users’ Privacy. We are the owner and operator of the website located at www.wfgfsj.com as well as the local sites linked thereto (collectively the “ Site ”). We are committed to maintaining the confidentiality of the personal information collected by us, utilising ‘best in class’ information security technology and procedures, all in accordance with European Union standards of data protection.

Purpose of this Privacy Policy. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to enable you to understand how we collect, store, use and safeguard your personal information and to explain your rights in relation to that information and its use.

Our Legal Obligations. We will comply with the terms of the Isle of Man’s Data Protection Act 2002 (as may be amended or updated from time to time) (the “ Act ”) when processing your personal information. Your personal information may be also processed or transferred by us to other members of or our group of companies, our affiliates, our agents and third parties providing services to us, in jurisdictions outside of the Isle of Man and the European Economic Area. In this event we will comply with the terms of the Act which ensures that personal data is only transferred to such jurisdictions which comply with the various ‘adequacy’ requirements for data protection set out in the Act.

What do the Capitalised Terms Mean? Unless we give them a specific meaning in this Privacy Policy, capitalised terms shall have the meaning given to them in our Terms and Conditions which takes precedence over any conflicting provision of this Privacy Policy.

1. Your Agreement to the Privacy Policy
2. What information is collected and for what purpose
3. Conditions for Processing Personal Information
4. Information Sharing, Disclosures and Recipients
5. Confidentiality
6. Limits of Confidentiality
7. Your Rights in Relation to Your Information
8. Cookies
9. Further Information

1. Your Agreement to the Privacy Policy

• Agreement. By using the Service, you (“ User ” or “ you ”) agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy as may be amended by us from time to time, save that we will ask you separately, when you provide us with your details whether you consent to receiving promotional communications from: (a) us and; (b) third party providers of goods and services with whom we may share your details.
• Amendments. We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. Amendment will come into effect immediately upon such change being notified on the Sites. We therefore encourage you to visit this Privacy Policy from time to time to make sure that you are aware of the current version and any changes that we may make.

2. What information is collected and for what purpose

• Registration Details. As part of a User’s account opening process across the Site and to allow us to provide our Services to you, we will ask you to provide us with a username, password, valid email and country of residence. Once you have successfully activated your account you are then able to add in additional personal information to your user account, including but not limited to: your name, date of birth, gender, as well as your homepage, Twitter user profile name and to also add in ‘about me’ details though none of this is compulsory to maintain an active account.
• Ongoing Data Capture. In addition, when you use the Service, we capture and store certain personal information including information on your activity on the Site and information held on the Device(s) you use to allow us to enhance the Services that we provide to you. We also use ‘cookies’ and our ‘cookie’ policy is explained below.
• Data Retention. We retain your personal information for as long as necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy which includes any period of historic retention that may be required for regulatory purposes. We do not collect any more personal information from our Users than is necessary for our purposes and our data management policies include the deletion of any personal information we no longer require. Should you close (or if we shut down) your User account with us, we will retain your personal data for a period of 24 (twenty-four) months to allow us to meet our regulatory and legal obligations and defend ourselves against any claims. Personal information which is not needed for these purposes will be deleted after this period.
• Purposes. We, members of our Group of companies, our affiliates and third parties providing services to us or to you on our behalf will use your personal information for the purpose of conducting our business and providing the Services to you. Specifically, this includes the following purposes (but we also reserve the right to use your personal information for any other purposes that are reasonably ancillary to the business of providing you with the Service):
  • to provide information and/or the Services to you;
  • identification and verification purposes;
  • statistical analysis and research;
  • research and development;
  • marketing, market research, customer surveys and customer profiling;
  • data analysis; and
  • to comply with any regulatory requirements.

3. Conditions for Processing Personal Information

• Conditions. We will process your personal information for a variety of reasons, each of which is prescribed by relevant data protection laws.
• Consent. Our processing of your personal information will primarily be necessary for us to provide you with the Services. On occasion we may ask for your consent to processing personal information in a discrete manner, in this instance your personal information will be processed in accordance with such consent and you will be able to withdraw this consent in writing at any time. By way of example, your consent will be needed in order to send you marketing and promotional communications.
• Fulfilment of a contract, compliance with a legal obligation. It may also be necessary for us to process your personal information where it is necessary for the performance of a contract (such as the Terms and Conditions when you open a User Account) or in order for us to comply with our various legal responsibilities
• Legitimate interests. Finally, we may also process your personal information where we deem such processing to be in our legitimate interests and provided always that such processing will not prejudice your interests, rights and freedoms. Examples of us processing in accordance with legitimate interests would include: (i) where we disclose your personal information to companies in our Group following a restructure or for internal administrative purposes; (ii) where we identify certain companies can offer you additional benefits to our services or provide us with valuable information about your use of our Service; (iii) processing for the purposes of ensuring network and information security, including preventing unauthorised access to our electronic communications network;; (iv) adhering to regulatory and statutory requirements.

4. Information Sharing, Disclosures and Recipients

• Specific Disclosures. We may disclose your personal information as follows:
  • to any recipient if required to do so by law or by regulatory authority;
  • to any regulatory body or authority;
  • to third parties who provide services to us or on our behalf;
  • to third parties for marketing purposes, provided you have consented or not objected, as the case may be, as described in Section 9 below;
  • to any third party that purchases us or our business or any part of us or our business;
  • if we believe in good faith that such action is necessary:
    i. to comply with any law or comply with legal process served on us;
    ii. to protect and defend our rights or property;
  • with your consent;
  • for the purposes of disaster recovery; or
  • as set out in Section 5 below.
• General Disclosures. In addition to the specific examples of disclosures listed above we may disclose your personal information to our employees, employees of other companies in our Group, our agents and to third party service providers who use your personal information to provide Services to us in respect of you being a user of our Services.
• Combined Personal Data. We may combine your personal information collected from your use of the Service in accordance with this Privacy Policy with other information collected from your use of other services operated by any other company in our corporate group as well as all products which are related or ancillary thereto, including mobile and social networking services. We will treat this combined information in accordance with, and will use it for the purposes set out in, this Privacy Policy.

5. Confidentiality

• What Do We Do? We have undertaken substantial efforts to protect the confidentiality of the identity, preferences and other information we have collected about individual Users and we will not knowingly allow access to this information to anyone outside of our Group, other than to User themselves or as described in this Privacy Policy. We have made a substantial investment in our server, database, backup, firewall and encryption technologies to protect the information that we collect and process. These technologies are deployed as part of state of the art security architecture.
• What Can You Do? You should also play your part in protecting your personal information. Your login credentials are confidential and you are obliged to keep your login credentials secret and confidential at all times and to use your best efforts to protect their secrecy and confidentiality.

6. Limits of Confidentiality

• Legally Required Disclosures. Due to the legal, regulatory and security environment in which we operate, we may be required, under certain circumstances, to disclose personally identifiable information about our Users and we may not be permitted to inform you that we have done so. We will use reasonable endeavours to limit such disclosure to the following: (a) where we believe in good faith that we are required to do so in response to a subpoena, warrant or other legal process or obligation upon us; or (b) where reasonably necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against persons or entities to preserve and/or enforce our rights. Further, please note that we may disclose your User identification, name, date of birth, street address, city, county, post code, country, phone number, email , account activity, your communications with other Users, to our third party agents or official government bodies as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate in connection with an investigation of money-laundering, fraud, intellectual property infringement, piracy or other unlawful activity or activity that may expose us to legal liability.
• Group Marketing. We may use your email address and phone number for the purpose of providing you with news, promotions and other marketing offers from us. If you no longer wish to receive these promotional communications, newsletters and marketing offers, you may opt-out of receiving them either when you register with us initially, or subsequently by following the ‘opt-out’ instructions included in each communication. You are also, in addition, entitled at any time to notify us that you do not wish to receive any promotional communications from us and you may do this by emailing us at Support.
• Third Party Offers of Goods and Services. Where you have provided us with your consent to do so, we may also share your email address and phone number with third parties so that they may send you offers of their goods and services. You may request at any time not to receive such offers by sending a blank message with the word ‘ Remove’ in the subject area to Support. If you request not to receive these offers we will remove your details from our marketing distribution lists and from any future lists we may share with our marketing partners. However, you will need to unsubscribe separately from marketing communications sent by partners who have received your contact details from us prior to your request to be removed from these lists.
• Publicity. We will only use your name and details in publicity materials with your written consent.

7. Your Rights in Relation to Your Information

• Right to request information about you. We aim to keep our information about you as accurate as possible. You can contact 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 Act. In this event we may require evidence of and be satisfied as to your identity before we take any requested action. To contact us to exercise any of your rights as set out in this Clause 12, please e-mail Support. We may, in certain circumstances, levy a small charge to cover the cost of administration regarding any request made by you in this regard or deal with your query in accordance with the Act as may be applicable.
• Additional Rights. You have the following rights in relation to your personal data:
  • a right to object to processing that is likely to cause or is causing damage or distress;
  • a right to object to decisions being taken by automated means;
  • a right in certain circumstances to have inaccurate personal data rectified, blocked, erased or destroyed; and
  • a right to claim compensation for damages caused by a breach of. data protection law.

If you are unsure about your rights or are concerned about how your personal information may be processed you should contact the Isle of Man Data Protection Supervisor (details set out below). If you contact us in relation to your rights we will do our best to accommodate your request or objection. Please note, however, that not all rights are absolute.

8. Cookies

Cookies are text-only strings of information that are downloaded to your personal desktop, laptop computer or mobile device (each a “ Device ”) when you visit a website. They are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises those cookies. Please see: www.allaboutcookies.org for information about what cookies are and what they do.

Cookies are very useful and are used for many different purposes. These include allowing you to navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving user experience. Sometimes cookies are used to help ensure that adverts you see online are relevant to you and your interests. We use cookies in order to track referrals to our Sites, to remember your preferences, and to generate anonymised statistical data, which we use to improve the user experience on our sites. We also use cookies to measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns, to limit the number of times you see an advertisement, to remember that you have visited a website, and to provide advertisements that are more relevant to your interests.

Detailed information about cookies and how we use them on the Site may be found in our Cookie Policy , which also provides a Link to show you how you can delete or disable cookies?.

9. Further Information

We are happy to provide you with further information on how we protect and use your personal information. Please contact Support. You can also obtain much useful information on data protection and privacy from the office of the Isle of Man Information Commissioner www.inforights.im.

Privacy Policy last revised: May 2023