This Privacy Notice applies to our applications and services provided to you for poker live events. The purpose of this Privacy Notice is to provide you with information about how we use your personal data. This notice may be updated from time-to-time so we recommend that you review it regularly, however where we make material changes, we will make sure to alert you to this.
The controller (formerly known as data controller) of your personal data for Poker Live Events is Rational Live Events (Malta) Limited. This is who we refer to when saying "Live Events", "we", "our" and "us" etc.
Events and Tournaments are hosted in conjunction with third parties at physical locations. Hosts and venues may request certain personal information to comply with their obligations as independent controllers.
Yes, we have appointed a Data Protection Officer (DPO). While our DPO can be reached at dataprotection@pokerstarsint.com, our Customer Service team will be your initial point of contact if you wish to exercise your rights. Contact Support. Please see the 'Your Rights' section below.
Reference to the Group within this Privacy Notice means Flutter Entertainment plc and all or any of its direct or indirect subsidiary undertakings, joint venture partners, and their related companies wherever located in the world as may exist from time to time including, but not limited to, Adjarabet, Betfair, FanDuel, Junglee, Paddy Power, PokerStars, Sky Betting and Gaming , Sisal, and tombola.
In order to provide you services, you will need to create a user account (“PS Live Account”). When creating this user account, you will need to submit certain personal data such as your name, age, address, email, date of birth, and country. Additional information will also be required for you to utilize some of our services, such as your bank card details.
We may collect personal data through surveys which we, or companies engaged by us undertake. In addition, we collect information about your use of our websites, mobile applications and services. We will also collect other information necessary for us to provide you with our services.
Where you contact us, we will process any personal data you provide in these communications.
We may also collect personal data from third party service providers, such as credit reference agencies and fraud prevention companies.
Finally, we also use "cookies" and similar technologies which may collect certain information about you, such as your devices' IP addresses and online activity, some of which will constitute your personal data. You can learn more about the cookies we use in the 'Cookies' section below.
In accordance with data protection laws, we will only process your personal data when we have a lawful basis for doing so in respect of your personal data. We process your personal data if: (i) it is necessary to provide services to you under the performance of the contract we have with you; (ii) we are required to do so in accordance with legal or regulatory obligations; (iii) you have given your consent; or, (iv) it is in our legitimate interests to process your personal data, provided that none of these interests prejudice your own rights, freedoms and interests.
With the exception of limited circumstances, we do not process special categories of personal data about you (such as personal data relating to your health, ethnicity, religion, political persuasion, trade union membership or sexuality) or personal data relating to criminal offences or convictions. For the limited circumstances in which we process special categories of personal data, we have set out the additional lawful basis required in italics below.
The following is a list of the purposes for which we process your personal data, and the lawful basis on which it carries out such processing:
Purpose | Category of Data | Lawful Basis |
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To register Qualifiers, set-up and administer your user account ("PS Live Account") | Identity and verification data | Necessary for the performance of a contract |
To register in-person at Events, set-up and administer your user account ("PS Live Account") | Identity and verification data | Necessary for the performance of a contract |
To provide you with our services (including to allow you to register and participate in our Events) | Contacts, Web/App activity, Device and internet identifier, Financial and payments data, Location data, Photographs | Necessary for the performance of a contract |
To receive and respond to your communications and requests | Contacts, Messages | Necessary for the performance of a contract if the communication relates specifically to our services, otherwise legitimate interests |
To notify you with important updates to our websites, mobile applications and in relation to our Events | Contacts, Messages, Devise and internet identifier | Necessary for the performance of a contract |
To ensure that we are able to fulfil our regulatory obligations regarding your use of our services, including by verifying the accuracy of any information you provide us, verifying your identity and verifying your age (which may involve us disclosing your personal data to third parties or supplementing your personal data with information received from third parties (such as credit reference agencies) | Identity and verification data, Financial and payments data, Exclusion data, Location data | Necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation |
To comply with our obligations under applicable laws (including gambling legislation, and regulatory and licensing requirements related to our gambling licenses) | Identity and verification data, Financial and payments data, Exclusion data, Location data | Necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation |
To identify and disclose any suspected unlawful, fraudulent, or other improper activity connected with our websites, mobile applications and services (including our Events) | Identity and verification data, Financial and payments data, Exclusion data, Location data, Web/App activity, Device and internet identifier | Necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation |
To support any other purpose necessary for the performance of our contractual obligations or specifically stated at the time at which you provide your personal data | Financial and payments data, Exclusion data, Location data, Web/App activity, Device and internet identifier | Necessary for the performance of a contract |
To detect and prevent fraud in our services or during the tournament | Financial and payments data, Exclusion data, Location data, Web/App activity, Device and internet identifier | Necessary for a legal or regulatory obligation |
To identify any breach of our terms of use | Financial and payments data, Exclusion data, Location data, Web/App activity, Device and internet identifier | Necessary for the performance of a contract |
To send out surveys to better understand our products and services | Contacts, Web/App activity, Web/App info and performance | Legitimate interests of better understanding the products and services that our customers most enjoy |
To review the results of surveys completed by you | Contacts, Web/App activity, Web/App info and performance | Consent |
To prepare internal reports and business modelling to better facilitate Events | Contacts, Web/App activity, Web/App info and performance | Legitimate interests of understanding the use of, and therefore improving, our products and services |
To record telephone calls to and from, and live chats with, our customer services to provide you with our services (including entertainment activities aligned to of the Event) | Contacts, Audio files | Legitimate interests of improving our customer services |
To send offers and promotions relating to our services that you may be interested in | Location data, Web/App activity | Consent |
To use your name, image, username or location in publicity and marketing, but only when you have provided express and informed consent for us to do so | Contacts, Audio files, Files and docs | Consent |
Sharing: To share your personal information with other members of the Group who assist in providing the services to customers | All categories of data | Legitimate interests to allow us to provide services |
Sharing: To share your personal data with our professional advisors, such as lawyers and consultants | All categories of data | Legitimate interests to allow us to seek advice |
Sharing: To share personal data with other members of the Group to ensure that responsible gambling measures can be applied across the Group | Identification and verification data, Exclusion data | Necessary for a legal or regulatory obligation |
Sharing: To share personal data with other members of the Group for game integrity protection purposes | Identity and verification data, Financial and payments data, Exclusion data, Location data, Web/App activity, Device and internet identifier | Necessary for the performance of a contract |
Sharing: To share your personal information with third parties for identity verification | Location data, Contacts | Necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation |
Sharing: To share your personal information with third parties for fraud and anti-money laundering detection purposes | Identification and verification data, Exclusion data, Financial and payments data, Web/App activity | Necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation |
Sharing: To share your personal data with law enforcement agencies for the prevention and detection of crime | Identification and verification data, Exclusion data, Financial and payments data, Web/App activity | Legitimate interests of helping to protect our services and our community |
Sharing: To share your personal data with gambling regulators in order to assist and comply with any investigation | Contacts, Exclusion data | Necessary for a legal or regulatory obligation |
Sharing: To share your personal data with third parties for the purposes of settling or making payments in relation to any winnings you may be entitled to from participating in an Event | Financial and payments data | Necessary for the performance of a contract |
Cookies: To operate our websites and mobile applications, including allowing you to interact with our websites and mobile applications and to recall selections as you move between pages | Web/App info and performance | Legitimate interest of using a website with at least standard functionality to provide our services |
Cookies: To analyse your use of our website, monitor our web audience and populate certain content on our website in line with your usage | Web/App info and performance, Web/App activity | Consent |
In addition to the purposes set out above, we may also process your personal data for other purposes that we deem compatible with those listed above. We will update this Privacy Notice accordingly, when we do this.
Please note that the lawful bases set out above are those which will primarily apply although it is possible that a change in circumstance may result in a change in lawful basis – for example, if you close your user account with us we will no longer process your personal data to perform a contract with you but will continue to do so in order to comply with legal requirements.
We are part of the Group and there will be instances where your personal data is shared with other members of the Group. This will occur in the following circumstances:
We may also in the future share personal data with other members of our Group for purposes that are related to and compatible with those set out above. Finally, where we are required by law or regulation to share personal data throughout our Group for reasons beyond those set out above we will be required to do this.
Please check this Privacy Notice frequently to learn of any updates to our intra-group sharing.
In addition to the purposes involving the sharing of your personal data listed above, we will also disclose your personal data to processors we engage. We will have a contract in place with each such processor to ensure your personal data is kept secure.
We may also disclose your personal data in the following circumstances:
We store your personal data in Ireland. In some cases, members of our Group located outside the European Union may access your data. We may also share your personal data with third parties. To ensure your personal data is adequately protected, we have assessed the impact of such transfers and implemented Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) in our data sharing agreements.
We will take appropriate security, technical and organizational measures to ensure that your personal data is kept secure and to prevent the theft, loss or unauthorized access to your personal data. It is important to understand however that security can never be guaranteed and you will not hold us liable save where the security of your personal data is compromised due to our negligence.
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.
If you have signed up to services offered by us we may send you direct marketing in relation to other services offered by us or our Group provided that you have given your consent to receive such marketing.
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.
Please note that if you unsubscribe from marketing it may take up to five working days for this to take effect.
We may also use information you provide to us to show you relevant advertising and personalized content about our Group's services on certain third party social media platforms (Social Media Sites) made available to us through relevant service providers (e.g. Facebook, Twitter). If you do not wish to see these advertisements, you can change your settings on the Social Media Sites. If you do not want us to share this information with Social Media Sites you can contact us directly.
In this Privacy Notice, we use the expression 'cookie' to refer to cookies and similar technologies we use to store information (such as web beacons). A cookie is a simple text file that is stored on your computer or mobile (or other) device by a website's server, and only that server will be able to retrieve or read the contents of that cookie. Each cookie is unique to your web browser. It will contain some anonymous information, such as a unique identifier and the website name and some digits and characters.
Almost all websites and applications you visit, including our websites, will use cookies in order to improve your user experience by enabling that website and/or application to 'remember' you, either for the duration of your visit (using a 'session cookie') or for repeat visits (using a 'persistent cookie').
Cookies are used to improve your use of a website or application, for example through letting you navigate between pages efficiently and storing your preferences. Cookies make the interaction between you and the website faster and easier. If a website or application doesn't use cookies, it will think you are a new visitor every time you move to a new page on the website. Cookies can also be used to enable targeted advertising and analyzing your browsing of a website.
You can learn more about cookies generally and how to disable them on your browser here.
You can learn more about what advertising cookies exist on your device and you can disable them directly by clicking here.
We retain your personal data for two years. Two years is calculated from the closure of your user account or where your user account has been dormant for this period. There are some exceptions to this retention period, namely:
You can update some of your personal data at any time via your user account. You must advise us of any relevant changes to your personal information as provided to us and we do not accept liability for any harm that you may suffer as a result of you failing to notify us of any changes to the personal information that you have provided to us. If you are unable to change your information via your user account, please contact Support.
You have the following rights in relation to your personal data:
If you are unsure about your rights or are concerned about how your personal data may be processed, you should contact our Support or your national data protection supervisory authority.
If you would like to exercise any of your rights then you can do so by contacting Support. Please be aware that while we will try to accommodate any request you make in respect of your rights, they are not absolute rights. This means that we may have to refuse your request or may only be able to comply with it in part.
When you make a request in respect of your rights, we will require proof of identification. We may also ask that you clarify your request. We will aim to respond to any request within one month of verifying your identity, but it may take longer (we will notify you if this is the case). If we receive repeated requests, or have reason to believe requests are being made unreasonably, we reserve the right not to respond.
If you have any complaints you have the right to contact your own national data protection supervisory authority however we do ask that you contact us in the first instance to allow us the opportunity to address your concerns.
If you have any questions regarding our use of your personal data, or you would like to exercise any of your rights, please contact our Support in the first instance. You can also contact our Data Protection Officer at dataprotection@pokerstarsint.com.
Privacy Notice last revised: February 27, 2025