Privacy policy — PokerStars guide UK
This notice governs personal data processed on this informational website that discusses PokerStars products for a UK audience. It does not replace Flutter’s privacy statements for real-money PokerStars accounts, which govern verification documents, gameplay logs, anti-fraud signals and payment processing. If you play poker or casino games on PokerStars, rely on their controller notice and in-client privacy tools for anything touching your player ID. Here we explain the smaller dataset created when you browse articles, accept cookies, email our team, or subscribe to optional updates hosted on this domain.
Roles and processors
The publisher named in configuration determines purposes on this hostname. We appoint subprocessors—hosting, email delivery, analytics, security scanning—under contracts that limit reuse and mandate breach notification. We do not sell personal information to data brokers. We do not attempt to link casual article traffic to specific PokerStars screen names unless you voluntarily tell us identifiable details in email.
Categories of data
Technical logs may contain IP addresses, user agents, referrer URLs, coarse geography, timestamps and error codes. Analytics events may record scroll depth, outbound clicks, and content IDs. Correspondence retains message bodies and headers. Newsletters store email addresses and consent proofs. We minimise fields and avoid special-category data except where law mandates narrow exceptions.
Lawful bases
Legitimate interests support network security, spam filtering, aggregated performance measurement, and editorial correspondence. Consent covers non-essential cookies where required and optional marketing emails. Legal obligations may compel retention of certain communications regulators request.
Cookies and local storage
Essential cookies maintain cookie-banner memory and basic session continuity. Optional analytics cookies help us see which explainers need rewriting. Reject non-essential categories through our banner where implemented, or through browser settings, knowing some conveniences may disappear.
Retention
Logs rotate on schedules tuned for incident response. Email archives may persist longer when disputes or regulatory letters appear. Newsletter records delete after unsubscribe plus a short reconciliation period unless law demands more.
International transfers
If vendors process data outside the UK/EEA, we implement appropriate safeguards such as the UK IDTA Addendum or equivalent clauses. Summaries are available on request subject to confidentiality.
Your rights
UK individuals may exercise access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and objection where statutes allow. Email the privacy contact associated with this site, identifying the hostname and request type. We verify identity before exporting data. You may escalate complaints to the ICO.
Children
Content targets adults of legal gambling age. We do not knowingly collect children’s data and will delete it when alerted.
Changes
We update this policy when practices or vendors change materially. Review it periodically; the hostname in your address bar determines which notice applies.
Research and aggregated statistics
We may publish aggregate readership trends that cannot identify individuals. Raw analytics exports stay inside processor dashboards protected by access controls.
Linked sites
Outbound links to Flutter properties or charities are provided for convenience. Their privacy practices govern once you leave this hostname; read their notices at destination.
Do-not-track signals
Some browsers send DNT headers; we treat them as preference signals where technically feasible alongside cookie-banner choices, not as a substitute for explicit consent records where law demands them.