Like most websites, we use cookies to a limited extent to enhance the user experience and provide customization and useful features to our website and products. We also use standard analytics software to allow us to see how our customers are interacting with the site in aggregate. Since we are able to collect this data on you, we want to be as clear as possible about how we collect the data, what we collect and most importantly, what we do with it.

So what are ‘cookies’? Well, a ‘cookie’ is a small piece of information stored on your web-browser which allows your web-browser to remember specific information about a website or webpage.

This ‘cookie’ provides us with useful information related to visitors to our website such as, if you’re a unique visitor or if you have been to our website before. The time you spent visiting our website and which particular page you spent the longest time on, allowing us to calculate the average length of time users spend on our website. Also, how did you find your way to our website, via a search engine or from a direct link.

With this information, we can see where our website is working and where it is not. An example could be that we have very few unique (new) visits from customers but we do see that those who have visited us before, do so again.

We recognize that personal information is valuable and needs to be treated with care. As we mentioned previously, we will NEVER sell it to anyone and we won’t clutter your email with stuff you don’t want.

You can configure your browser settings according to your wishes and, for example, refuse to accept third-party cookies or all cookies, only allow them in individual cases or activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser.

We recommend that you regularly delete your cookies and browser history manually. For more information on cookies and how to make browser settings in this regard, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies. Further information on how to disable cookies can be obtained by referring to either your Operating Systems Manual or your Browser Guide, or by contacting your Internet Service Provider. However, given that PokerStake may sometimes use cookies, you may not be able to take full advantage of our Website if you do disable them.

With cookies disabled, the website will restrict and disallow you from maximizing your product experience and in some cases may disallow you from taking part completely. For example, with cookies blocked the website will forget your login information producing an inconvenient user experience requiring that you enter the same information multiple times.

Unblocking cookies from your web browser will allow you to fully realize the brand experience.

We use several cookies on our site, we use these cookies to:

• Run functionality on site optimally by tracking your activity and making sure the content and data you see is personalized and correct.
• Remember browsing activity, browser used, device type and preferred products to present you with the content relevant for you.
• Provide you with correct information depending on your entry point on site, such as through a search engine.
• Allow you to maintain your session open.

PokerStake site uses the following types of cookies:

• Transient cookies
• Persistent cookies

Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close the browser. These include in particular the session cookies. These store a so-called session ID, with which various requests from your browser can be assigned to the joint session. This enables your computer to be recognised when you return to our website. The session cookies are deleted when you log out or close the browser.

Persistent cookies remain on your hard drive or mobile device beyond the browser session and are automatically deleted after a specified period of time, which may vary depending on the cookie. We use these persistent cookies to make it easier for you to use our website and the offers located there by saving certain entries and settings in such a way that you do not have to keep re-entering them. With the help of persistent cookies, we can identify you for subsequent visits if you have an account with us. Otherwise, you would have to log in again for each visit.
Furthermore, the only cookies used by PokerStake are Function-related, strictly necessary cookies and Performance-related cookies.

Function-related, strictly necessary cookies are largely responsible for how you can navigate on a website and use its functions or for ensuring that a service you have requested can be provided.

For example, the following data is saved and transmitted in the cookies:
(1) language settings
(2) Log-in information

Performance-related, i.e. analytic cookies collect information about how you use a website, for example, which (sub)pages you visit most frequently and whether you receive error messages from websites. They do not collect information that identifies you as a user. All information collected by performance-related cookies is aggregated and is therefore anonymous. Their sole purpose is to improve the performance of the website.

In this way, the following data is transmitted:

• Search terms entered
• Frequency of page views
• Use of website functions
• Information about the page a user has seen