Homewww.theasianpokertour.com PRIVACY POLICY
Asian Poker Tour Limited owns and operates (through related parties and/or licensees) the Asian Poker Tour. This policy applies to all personal information collected from You in this Website and in the provision of Services herein.
We care about your privacy and we would like to advise you about our policies and practices which we have adopted to protect your privacy so that you can understand how we handle the personal information you provide to us.
We will collect, process and utilize your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
We may make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. Please double check when you visit the Website or utilize the Service/s provided herein to be sure that you are updated with the latest version of this Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the Website and Service/s after the changes are deemed an acknowledgment that you’ve read the recent version of this Privacy Policy.
By accessing our Website, using our Services and providing us with your personal information, you consent to us collecting, using and disclosing your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Listed below is a summary of our Privacy Policy which are explained in detail thereafter:
- We may use your personal information for such things as to fulfill your requests, serve you better, and identify what communications you would like to get from us and our affiliates.
- We comply with opt-out requests.
- We may use cookies and web beacons to help us understand the features that apply to visitors, provide better functionality, and we may offer you personalised content as a result.
- We adopt careful procedures to protect your personal information, and use the highest levels of security in coordination with our payment services provider, to protect credit card data you give us when you utilize our Service/s.
COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We collect personal information, such as names, addresses, e-mail addresses, mobile phone numbers , activity information, demographic information (age, gender, etc.), details of occupations and the like, as well as other information which assists us in conducting our business, meeting the needs of our customers, marketing our services and meeting our legal obligations.
You may choose to provide us with your personal information directly such as when you contact us, register your details on our Website or when entering any of the APT Events. You may also choose to provide us with your personal information via our venues or other third parties. We may also obtain contact lists, demographic, and other personal information from other sources such as from our customers, venues, business associates and other third parties. We do ask for age information so that we can provide age-relevant content and fulfill certain legal obligations.
UTILIZATION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We collect and use your personal information to notify you of upcoming APT events, poker news, APT Event results, event reminders, to e-mail you with updates and news, to respond to your questions or comments, to register you for certain features, to provide personalised content, information, and/or to send out brochures, coupons, samples, offers and other information on us or our clients, third parties or our clients’ products or services.
We may also use your personal information to conduct our business and assist our clients to conduct their business, help us and our clients manage and enhance their products and services, create personal profiles in our databases, analyse, report on and aggregate your personal information for various purposes such as benchmarking, market research and product and service analysis and to comply with our legal obligations.
From time to time, we or our contractors or service providers may disclose personal information about you to third parties such as our related or associated companies, marketing and advertising agencies, our clients, our venues, our technology and administrative service providers and outsourcing contractors, other companies and individuals who assist us with providing products and services or who perform functions on our behalf, third parties with whom we have a business relationship, police, courts, tribunals and other regulatory authorities and anyone else to whom you authorise us to disclose it.
We provide you with an “opt-out” option at any time you wish to cease receiving e-mail, SMS or other communication from us.
As is customary in many businesses, we may purchase and use opt-in e-mail lists to contact potential customers. We will honour opt-out requests and ask those providing lists to give us assurances that e-mail contact information is provided only for those consumers who have expressed a desire to receive offers and information by e-mail.
COOKIES
We may use cookies for a variety of purposes. We may use cookie technology and IP addresses to obtain non-personal information from online visitors, and also to provide registered visitors with the best possible personalised online experience.
Visitors to our sites use different web browsers and different computers. To make your visits as easy as possible with the technology you use, we may automatically keep track of the type of browser (e.g., Internet Explorer, Netscape) and operating system (e.g., Windows, Macintosh) used by a visitor, and the domain name of the visitor’s Internet service provider. We may also track the total number of visitors to our site in an aggregate form to allow us to update and improve our site; personally identifiable information is not extracted in this process. This data tells us if more visitors prefer certain features or areas to others, which helps us keep our site fresh and interesting to the majority of our visitors. We may also use cookies to help prevent young children from entering certain areas or features intended only for adults.
If you don’t want cookies, you can set your computer to warn you each time a cookie is being sent or turn off all cookies through your browser (e.g., Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator). (Check your browser HELP menu to learn the correct way to change or update your cookies.) If you disable cookies, you may be unable to access some of the features noted above.
WEB BEACONS
Some portions of our website and e-mail communications may contain electronic images called Web beacons, sometimes known as one pixel GIFs, clear GIFs or pixel tags. On the Website, these allow us to count visitors who have viewed our page. In promotional e-mail messages/newsletters they allow us to count how many subscribers have read them. Web beacons allow us to develop statistical information about the activities and features that most interest our consumers for the purpose of providing more personalised content. They are not used to access personally identifiable information without your consent.
SECURED TRANSACTIONS
We care about the safety and security of your transactions. We use SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) to communicate with your browser software when you order from us online and thereby provide us with credit card or similar information. SSL is the industry standard security protocol, which makes it extremely difficult for anyone else to intercept your credit card / transaction and order information that you send us when you submit your online order. All financial transactions are processed using the highest levels of security through our designated payment services provider.
SAFEGUARDING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We have instituted safeguards to check that our internal procedures to protect your personal information meet high policy standards. We also use our best efforts to be sure that third parties who work with us as our agents to make this site and its contents available to you and utilise your personal information that they must access in order to serve our site and our visitors, agree to same degree of diligence in the protection of your personal information.
LINK TO OTHER WEBSITES
We may offer links to other sites. You should always check the privacy policy of any linked Web site to understand their personal information collection practices, including how they may use cookies. We are not responsible for the content or information collection policies of sites operated by other companies. If you visit another site, you should review their privacy and other policies.
CONTACT INFORMATION FOR REQUESTS AND CLARIFICATIONS
If you would like us to access, update, change, or delete information we have about you (subject to any applicable legal exceptions), would like to opt out of receiving further communications from us, or have questions about our privacy policy, please contact us at Info@TheAsianPokerTour.com
