Conditions and rules of use

https://polarize.poker is a website run by Polarize Poker Limited, a commercial company registered in Malta under no. C103402.

Polarize Poker refers to poker as a sport of the mind and sets out to develop content on the strategic, scientific, and technical aspects of the game. It is this aspect that, studied and constantly developed, provides its players with the necessary means to make the best decisions, which will be winners in the long run.

It is because we trust our content and because we know that our players will learn and practice it, that we are willing to invest in their game. Polarize Poker always refers to and invests only in the practice of legal gambling.

Polarize Poker practices and encourages Responsible Gaming.

On the other hand, Polarize Poker's coaching activity not only transmits scientific and strategic content relating to the technical side of the game but also provides players with resources such as psychological, nutritional, and physical activity support, which equips them with all the means to regulate their daily lives in a healthy way. We are the first to demand that our players are healthy people, in full control of their abilities.

On the other hand, in the staking activity, Polarize Poker invests as a staker of the player 100% of the game bankroll.

The terms of use of this site apply to all users, both registered and visitors. Together with all the documents mentioned here, they contain information on the rules of use.

Please read these conditions and rules of use carefully before you start using the site. By continuing, you indicate that you accept these conditions of use and agree to abide by them.

If you do not agree or are unable to comply with these terms of use, do not use the site.

Access to the site

To access this site you must be at least 18 years old. In this regard, we reserve the right to request appropriate and satisfactory documents to verify your age and/or identity and we have the right to block your account until you provide satisfactory proof of age.

It is your responsibility to ensure that the laws of your country allow you to register on the site. By registering on the site, you are declaring and guaranteeing that you are not resident or located in a country that prohibits access to this site, and therefore, you are declaring and guaranteeing that in using this site you do not violate the regulations of your country.

Registration on the site is permitted on a temporary basis and we reserve the right to withdraw or change the services we provide without prior notice. We will not be liable if, for any reason, the site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of the site or the entire site. When using the site, you must comply with the Terms and Conditions of Use.

It is your responsibility to check that you meet all the requirements for registration. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons accessing the site via your Internet connection are aware of these terms and that they comply with them.

Intellectual property rights

Polarize Poker is the owner or the licensee of all the intellectual property rights present on the site and in its content. These works are protected by copyright laws and treaties. All such rights are reserved.

If you print or download any content from the site for personal use, you may not separate any illustration, photograph, video, audio, or any graphic material from the texts that accompany them.

Our authorship, or that of those who have collaborated with Polarize Poker, must always be acknowledged in relation to the published material.

You may never use any material on the site for commercial purposes without obtaining formal consent or a license to do so.

If you print, copy, or download any content from the site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use it will cease immediately and you must return or destroy any copies of the materials in question.

If you publish any type of content subject to copyright or under legal protection in any other way on the site (for example, by publishing the content in the forum, news, comments, or in the community, etc.), you are authorizing us to store and publish that content on the site free of charge, as many times as we wish, at any time or place, making it accessible to the public and keeping it ready for use by third parties.

Furthermore, by making such contributions, you are declaring and guaranteeing that you own the legal rights to the published content and that you have not transferred and/or alienated these rights in any other way. We are not obliged to verify the validity, completeness, and legality of your contributions. Although we may adjust the format of all posts made in order to optimize viewing, you remain responsible and will have to compensate us for any infringement of intellectual property rights that remains in the published material.

Published information

Polarize Poker disclaims any liability arising from the reliance placed on comments and other published material.

Personal information

We process information about you in accordance with our Privacy Policy. By using the site, you agree to this processing and guarantee that all data provided by you is accurate.

Uploading material to the site

Whenever you use a resource on the site that allows you to upload material or that allows you to contact other users of the site, you must comply with the content requirements set out in our conditions of use (below). You must always comply with the most basic rules of good manners, urbanity, and respect. By doing so, you declare that you agree and that you guarantee and take responsibility for doing so.

Any material you send to the site will be considered non-confidential and not subject to copyright, and we have the right to use, copy, distribute, and disclose it to third parties for any purpose. We also have the right to disclose information about you to third parties who claim that any material posted or uploaded by you to the site constitutes a violation of their intellectual property or privacy rights.

We will not be responsible or liable to any third party for the content or accuracy of any material published by you or any other user of the site.

We have the right to remove any material or publication you make on the site if, in our opinion, that material does not comply with the content standards set out below.

We cannot control all the content posted by users. When we become aware of any content that violates these terms and conditions, we will remove that content immediately.

If you notice any kind of abusive behavior by another user, or if you notice that the content of any contribution by another user contradicts these terms and conditions and/or violates other laws, please contact us by sending an email to geral@polarizepoker.mt.

Viruses, hackers and other offenses

You are prohibited from misusing the site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs, or other material that is malicious or technologically harmful. You are prohibited from attempting to gain unauthorized access to the website, the server on which the website is stored or any server, computer, or database connected to the website. You are prohibited from attacking the site by any means.

If you violate this provision, you commit a crime. We will report this violation to the relevant law enforcement authorities and cooperate with these authorities by disclosing information about you. If this happens, your right to use the site will cease immediately.

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by any attack, virus, or other technologically harmful material that may infect your equipment, computer programs, data, or other copyrighted material due to your use of the site, to your downloading of any material posted on it or on any site linked to it.

Updates

We aim to make regular updates to the site and may change the content at any time. If necessary, we may suspend access to the site or close it indefinitely. Any material on the site may be out of date at any given time and we are under no obligation to update such material.

Links to the site

You can create a link to the site as long as it is legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it. You should never create a link that suggests any form of association, approval, or partnership on our part that does not actually exist.

The site must not be framed or included in any other site. We reserve the right to withdraw permission to link without prior notice. The linked site must comply in all respects with the content standards set out below.

Website links

The links on this site to other sites and resources provided by third parties are provided for information only. We have no control over the content of these sites or resources and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may result from using them.

Doubts

If you have any questions about the material on the site, please contact geral@polarizepoker.mt.

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Prohibited uses

You may use the site for legal purposes only. You may not use the site:

• In any way that violates any applicable local, national, or international law or regulation.
• In any way that is illegal or fraudulent, or has any illegal or fraudulent purpose or effect.
• If you are under 18.
• To transmit or procure the sending of any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).
• To knowingly transmit any data, send, or upload any material that contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware, or any harmful program or computer code designed to adversely affect the operations of any computer software or hardware.

You also agree:

• Not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, or resell any part of the site contrary to the provisions of our Terms of Use of the site.
• Don't trespass, interfere, damage or disturb:
• any part of the site;
• any equipment or network on which the site is stored;
• any software used in the provision of the site; or
• any equipment or network or software owned or used by third parties.

Interactive services

We may provide interactive services on the site. Whenever we do so, we will try as best we can to assess the risks of that service in deciding whether such a service is moderated or not and in how that moderation is used (including whether it is human or technical).

However, we have no obligation to supervise or moderate any interactive service we provide on the site and we expressly exclude our liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of any interactive service by a user who acts contrary to our terms and conditions of use of the site or content standards.

Content rules

These standard content rules apply to any and all material you contribute to the site (contributions) and to any interactive services.

You must comply with both the letter and the spirit of these rules. These rules apply to each part or the whole of any contribution.

Contributions must:

• Be precise, correct, rigorous, and real (where they indicate facts).
• Being genuine convictions (where they express opinions).
• Comply with the applicable law in any country from which they are published.

Contributions should not:

• Contain any defamatory material from anyone.
• Contain any obscene, offensive, hateful, or provocative material.
• Promoting sexually explicit material.
• Promoting violence.
• Promoting discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, or age.
• Infringing another person's copyright, database rights, personal data protection, or trademark.
• Be susceptible to deception someone.
• Being in breach of any legal duty owed to third parties, such as a contractual duty.
• Promoting any illegal activity.
• Threatening, abusing, or invading the privacy of others, or causing annoyance, inconvenience, or unnecessary anxiety.
• Being able to harass, disturb, embarrass, alarm, or annoy anyone else.
• Misrepresenting identities, being used to impersonate someone else.
• Give the impression that they belong to you, if that's not the case.
• Advocate, promote, or assist any illegal act, such as (by way of example only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.

By using the site, you warrant that the content of any contribution/material provided, submitted or published and made available by you does not contain:

• any advertisements from other companies (especially our competitors);
• viruses, fraudulent content, trojans, or spam in any form.

Likewise, they guarantee that the content does not infringe:

• any personal rights or rights of third parties;
• any legal and official provisions and/or prohibitions;
• Internet code of conduct (netiquette, chatiquette); or Public morality.

Therefore, your contributions must not contain any content that is considered obscene, offensive, defamatory, provocative, pornographic, inappropriate, racist, xenophobic, or otherwise objectionable.

You also guarantee that you will not contact other users of the site in any way with the aim of luring them away from the site. If you do so, we may delete your account from the site.

Suspension and exclusion

Failure to comply with these rules of use constitutes a material breach of the Terms and Conditions of Use of the website. Consequently, you will be subject to all or some of the following measures:

• Immediate, temporary or permanent exclusion of your right to use the site.
• Immediate, temporary, or permanent removal of any publication or material uploaded by you to the site.
• Issuing a warning.
• Legal proceedings against you for reimbursement of all costs or compensation resulting from the breach.
• Other legal actions against you, including criminal charges.

The responses described in these Rules and Conditions of Use are not limited and we may take any other action we deem appropriate. We will determine, at our discretion, whether there has been a breach of these Rules of Use.

You will be excluded from using the site if:

• you enter incorrect and/or invalid information or details during registration or payment;
• you or a third party on your behalf tries to register more than one account on the site;
• try in any way to attract users away from the site;
• you violate any of our terms and conditions of use; and
• act in any other illegal way.

Responsibility

You will be liable for all damages suffered as a result of your breach, or that of a third party through your account, of the conditions listed above.

Changes

We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. We expect you to check this page periodically to note the changes we have made, as they are binding. Some of the provisions contained in these conditions of use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on the site.

If any court or competent authority finds that any provision of these terms and conditions (or part of any provision) is invalid, illegal, or unenforceable, that part-provision shall, to the extent necessary, be deemed deleted, and the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions of these terms and conditions shall not be affected.

Thank you and welcome to our site.

Us, Polarize Poker Limited, a commercial company registered in Malta under No. C103402, hereinafter referred to as Polarize Poker, we are committed to respecting and protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy, together with our Terms of use and other documents referred to therein set out the terms and conditions under which we collect and process your personal data. Please read these terms and conditions to understand our practices regarding the processing of your personal data.

What information do we collect from you and how do we do it?

Nós podemos recolher os seguintes dados:

• Personal data, such as name and email, date of birth, address, details of identification documents, and other information you fill in on the forms and applications you send us. This includes all the information you may have given us over time, whether in service subscriptions, applications, registrations, requests for information, or support contacts.
• Data on your game, on hands played that you share with us.
• Any image, including a photograph, that you share with us, or that is taken at events organized by Polarize Poker, whether online or live.
• If you contact us or make comments on the site, we may keep a record of that correspondence and collect the data from those comments, in addition to the IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so that we can recognize and approve any subsequent comments automatically, rather than keeping them in a moderation queue.
• An anonymous string created from your e-mail address (also called a hash) can be provided to the Gravatar service to verify that you are using it. The Gravatar service's privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment has been approved, your profile picture will be visible to the public in the text of your comment.
• We may also ask you to answer surveys that we use for research purposes and we store this data.
• Details of your visits and actions on the websites, including but not limited to traffic data, location data, weblogs, conversion data, behavioral data, and other communication data.
• Data relating to your transactions with our partners.
• Information about your device, including, where available, your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
• If you upload images to the site, avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the site can download and extract any location data from the images on the site.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies. Cookies help us to provide you with a good experience when you browse the site and also allow us to improve the site.

How do we use the information we collect?

We use the information collected from you as follows:

• To ensure that the site's content is presented in the most effective way for you and your device.
• To provide you with information about products or services that you request from us.
• To fulfill our obligations under any contracts entered into between you and us and to enable the performance of those contracts.
• To allow you to take part in the site's interactive features.
• To notify you of changes to our services.
• For fraud prevention and investigation purposes and to comply with regulations and legislation.
• For business intelligence purposes.
• To ensure that you are complying with our terms of site use (and we may monitor communications with other users of the sites to verify this).
• Visitor comments can be checked by an automated spam detection service.

How do we store this information?

All the information you provide to us is stored on infrastructure that is owned exclusively by us or a member of our group or licensed exclusively to us or a member of our group and which uses state-of-the-art techniques to restrict access by third parties. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password that allows you to access certain parts of the site, you are responsible for keeping that password confidential. We ask that you do not share the password with anyone. Unfortunately, the transmission of information over the Internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to the site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we receive your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorized access.

Disclosure of your information to third parties

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies or companies contracted to perform specific work for us. We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

• In the event that we sell or buy any business or asset, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or asset.
• If any company in our group or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case the personal data it holds on its customers will be one of the assets transferred.
• For business intelligence purposes.
• If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to perform or enforce any contract or legal obligation (this includes any contracts between you and us), or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property or safety of our group of companies, our customers or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection, credit risk prevention, and reduction, or for another purpose as set out in this document.
• Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in exactly the same way as if the visitor had visited the other website. These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that site.

Transfer of Personal Data outside the European Economic Area

Data collected about you may be transferred to and stored at a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be processed by employees operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers.

How long do we keep your data?

We will not retain your personal information for longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data is processed.

Your choices

We understand that you entrust us with your personal information and we are committed to ensuring that you can manage the privacy and security of your personal information. With respect to information related to you that ends up in our possession, and recognizing that it is your choice to provide us with your personally identifiable information, we are committed to giving you the ability to do the following:

• You can check the personal data you have sent us by contacting geral@polarizepoker.mt. If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. Our security procedures state that we may request proof of identity before disclosing information.
• You can contact us by the same method to change, correct, or delete your personal information controlled by us in relation to your profile at any time. This does not include any data that we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. Please note, however, that if you have shared any information with others via social media channels, that information may remain visible even if your account is deleted.
• You can request a legible copy of the personal data we hold about you at any time. To do so, please contact us at geral@polarizepoker.mt. Our security procedures state that we may request proof of identity before disclosing information. The site may occasionally contain links to and from the sites of our partner networks, advertisers, and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these sites, please note that these sites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility for these policies. Please check these policies before sending any personal data to these sites.

By accessing our website, the user automatically agrees, accepts, and adheres to all the information and conditions set out in this document, which must be complied with.

Changes to our privacy policy

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email or when you log in to the site.

Contact

Questions, complaints and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcome and should be addressed to geral@polarizepoker.mt.