The Hong Kong Poker League (HKPL) values the privacy and security of all information that you share with us through http://www.hkpokerleague.com.hk (the Website). It is important that you understand how we collect, use, and maintain your information.

HKPL offers an online place to meet and interact with friends. This Privacy Policy explains our online information practices, the choices you may make about how we collect and use your information at this Website, and the ways you may contact us.

"Personal Information" is information about you that is personally identifiable to you, like your name, address, e-mail address, or phone number, as well as other non-public information that is associated with the foregoing.

"Anonymous Information" means information that is not associated with or linked to your Personal Information; Anonymous Information does not permit the identification of individual persons. We collect and use Personal Information and Anonymous Information as described in this Privacy Policy.

User Consent
By submitting Personal Information through our Website, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and expressly consent to the processing of your Personal Information according to this Privacy Policy.
Your Personal Information may be processed by HKPL in the country where it was collected as well as other countries (including the United States of America) where laws regarding processing of Personal Information may be less stringent than the laws in your country.

General
We collect Personal Information that you submit to us voluntarily through our Website.
When you register for the HKPL network, we will collect your name, e-mail address, your gender, date of birth and ZIP code. When you save other Personal Information in your profile we will collect any such information you enter. When you enter Personal Information throughout the HKPL network using one of the features of the HKPL network, for example forum posts, blogs, or comments, we will collect any such information you enter ("Publicly Posted Information").
When you contact us by sending us an e-mail, we will collect your e-mail addresses and any information contained in the e-mail you send us.
Once you register with HKPL and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us. If you are browsing the Website without registering with HKPL, you are anonymous to us, but we will collect the information listed below under Personal Information Collected Via Technology.

Use of information
Any visitor of the HKPL website can view your profile information and photos that you have uploaded to the HKPL community. To provide you with some of the features that the HKPL community offers to its members, we may use Personal Information that is stored in your profile after you have requested such features, for example to send invitation e-mails to people that you specified as being interested in joining the HKPL community. In order to provide useful information about social networks to people who might be interested in joining the HKPL community, we may use your profile information and photos on the HKPL website and when we send general newsletters to members of the HKPL community.
If you decide to use certain features of the HKPL network (like forums, blogs, comments, and the like), some of the Personal Information you entered into your HKPL profile and any information, including Personal Information, that you enter using one of these features, might be used and displayed.
HKPL members can use the search feature to search for other members by different criteria, like location or gender. The Personal Information that HKPL members enter into the HKPL profile will be used for these searches.
Please be aware that any information that is publicly posted throughout the HKPL network can be accessed by every visitor of the Website.
HKPL may analyze any collected information for its own internal purposes. In addition, HKPL may remove personally identifying information from collected information to render it anonymous. HKPL may use Anonymous Information for any purpose and disclose Anonymous Information in its discretion.

Information Sharing and Disclosure
HKPL does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or as otherwise described in this privacy policy.
We provide your Personal Information to third party service providers who work on behalf of or with HKPL under confidentiality agreements to provide some of the services and features of the HKPL community and to help us communicate with HKPL members. These service providers may use your personal information to help HKPL communicate with you about offers from HKPL and our marketing partners. However, these service providers do not have any independent right to share this information.
If you decide to use one of the additional services that are offered by our partners, we may forward Personal Information to these partners to enable them to provide the services that you requested.
We also provide information to third-party advertising companies, as described in the next section.
Please be aware that the handling of your Personal Information by our partners or the third-party advertising companies is governed by their privacy policy, not ours.

We will disclose information in response to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims. We may disclose information, if we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected illegal activities or fraud, situations involving the physical safety of any person, violations of HKPL's terms of use, or as otherwise required by applicable law.
If our company or our assets are acquired by another company, that company will possess the Personal Information collected by us and it will assume the rights and obligations regarding your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy.

Third Party Advertising
We use third-party advertising companies to serve advertisements when you visit our Website. These companies may use Personal Information, such as gender or age, and other information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites, such as time of day of the login, IP address or information about the internet service provider (ISP), in order to provide advertisements on the Website about goods and services that may be of interest to you.

Personal Information Collected Via Technology
As you navigate the Website, certain information may also be passively collected and stored on our server logs, including your Internet protocol address, browser type, and operating system. We also use Cookies and navigational data like Uniform Resource Locators (URL) to gather information regarding the date and time of your visit and the solutions and information for which you searched and viewed, or on which of the advertisements displayed on the Website you clicked. This type of information is collected to make our services and solutions more useful to you and to tailor the HKPL community experience to meet your special interests and needs.
If you search the HKPL community by using a toolbar that HKPL, or a third party provides, we may collect Anonymous Information about you automatically, but we will not collect Personal Information.

An "Internet protocol address" or "IP Address" is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you use the Internet. In some cases your IP Address stays the same from browser session to browser session; but if you use a consumer internet access provider, your IP Address probably varies from session to session. We track your IP Address when you login to the Website.

"Cookies" are small pieces of information that a web site sends to your computer's hard drive while you are viewing a web site. HKPL may use both session Cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent Cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience on the Website. Persistent Cookies can be removed by following your Internet browser help file directions. If you choose to disable Cookies, some areas of the Website may not work properly.
Other third parties may place advertisements and cookies on webpages within the HKPL network. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one.
Your Ability to Edit and Delete Your Account Information and Preferences
We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the HKPL service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the HKPL Newsletter, that are considered part of your HKPL account. If you would like to opt out of certain messages, please send us an email. If you would like to delete your account, log into HKPL, and go to your account settings page.

Confidentiality and Security
We limit access to personal information about you to employees and third parties who we reasonably believe need access to that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs.

We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect personal information about you and your HKPL account information is protected by a password that you select. HKPL uses industry-standard SSL encryption in certain areas of the Website to protect data transmissions.
However, no company, including HKPL, can fully eliminate security risks associated with Personal Information.

Other Sites
Our provision of a link to any other website or location is for your convenience and does not signify our endorsement of such other website or location or its contents. We have no control over, do not review, and cannot be responsible for these outside websites or their content. Please be aware that the terms of our Privacy Policy does not apply to these outside websites.

Privacy Policy Changes and Udates
We may make revisions to this Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective upon posting. Please check periodically for updates.