Privacy policy
The privacy rules are built with the same care as PokerMeet itself.
PokerMeet is built around private-home coordination, not open-address broadcasting. The privacy policy explains how that carries through to account data, communications, and requests under California law.
Key points
Know the essentials before you read the policy.
These highlights cover the rules users usually look for first. The complete policy follows with the legal detail intact.
- Private-home details are protected by design.County discovery can be visible while exact host locations remain protected until approval and address release.
- Privacy questions should go through the support path listed here.The policy explains how to submit data requests and what to include so the team can respond cleanly.
Policy text
PokerMeet Privacy Policy
Last updated: September 27, 2026
POKERMEET LLC
PRIVACY POLICY
We take your privacy very seriously. Please read this privacy policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are and our information practices, meaning how and why we collect, use, disclose, sell, share, store, and retain your personal information. It also explains your rights in relation to your personal information and how to contact us or supervisory authorities in the event you have a complaint or request.
We collect, use, and are responsible for certain personal information about you. For California consumers, we are subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA). We are responsible for your personal information as a “business” under the CCPA/CPRA.
“Platform” means the PokerMeet website located at https://www.pokermeet.org, the PokerMeet mobile application, and all related digital services, features, content, technologies, and communications provided by PokerMeet LLC.
1. Key Terms
It would be helpful to start by explaining some key terms used in this policy:
We, us, our PokerMeet LLC, a California limited liability company, operating under the name “PokerMeet.”
Our representative Trevor Woolsey, CEO. Contact us at hello@pokermeet.org or by mail at 6585 Yosemite Drive, Buena Park, CA 90620.
Personal information Any information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked with a particular consumer or household.
Sensitive personal information Personal information revealing a consumer's social security number, driver's license and passport numbers, account numbers and credentials, precise geolocation, racial or ethnic origin, religious beliefs, or union membership, personal information concerning a consumer's health, sex life, or sexual orientation, contents of a consumer's mail, email and text messages where the business is not the intended recipient, genetic data, biometric information, and citizenship or immigration status.
Biometric Information An individual’s physiological, biological, or behavioral characteristics, including information pertaining to an individual’s deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), that is used or is intended to be used singly or in combination with each other or with other identifying data, to establish individual identity. Biometric information includes, but is not limited to, imagery of the iris, retina, fingerprint, face, hand, palm, vein patterns, and voice recordings, from which an identifier template, such as a faceprint, a minutiae template, or a voiceprint, can be extracted, and keystroke patterns or rhythms, gait patterns or rhythms, and sleep, health, or exercise data that contain identifying information.
2. Personal Information We Collect About You
The categories below describe the free launch and records we may still hold from earlier testing. Disabling a feature does not by itself erase historical records.
- Account and contact information: account identifiers, email address, phone number when provided, sign-in credentials or authentication-provider identifiers, display name, profile photo, biography, age eligibility confirmation, county preferences, and account-check status. Passwords and sign-in tokens are handled through our authentication service. Account checks concern account/contact information; they do not establish verified personhood. Approved Public Host review is a separate application and approval process.
- Event and community information: game and club details, requests, approvals, rosters, attendance and QR check-in records, posts, messages, reports, blocks, and support or host-interest submissions. Information you submit may contain other personal information; please avoid posting sensitive information that others do not need.
- Location information: county/city selections, addresses you enter, coordinates derived from those addresses, and device coordinates when you permit a location feature. Address-derived coordinates may be precise even when device location permission is off. We use location for nearby discovery, location/account checks and attendance features such as check-in or departure where used. Denying device location permission stops that device-location access; it does not delete an address you previously provided. The app does not request background location access.
- Photos, video and communications: profile and event images, posts and other media you choose to upload, and messages you send. Uploaded videos may contain sound. Supported image-only flows use the system picker so you can choose individual photos; some editing or video flows may need photo-library permission. With permission, the camera scans event check-in QR codes. The current app does not request microphone access to record audio in the app.
- Technical and operational information: IP addresses received by services when you connect, browser/device type, app version, security and error logs, notification tokens or installation identifiers, and delivery records needed to operate notifications and the service.
- Optional analytics: website/public Demo page and interaction information through Google Analytics 4 (GA4), and app feature-use and performance information through Amplitude, only after the applicable opt-in described below. Analytics controls are separate from essential service operation and error diagnostics. Pseudonymous identifiers and technical connection data can still be personal information; we do not describe these services as anonymous.
- Historical verification and access records: PokerMeet does not currently require government ID or live selfie verification. Live-photo capture and Stripe Identity verification are paused for this launch. Existing verification status, method or audit records may remain from earlier testing. A captured image alone is not proof of liveness or verified identity. We will provide notice before collection if identity or liveness verification features are enabled in the future.
- Commercial information: the launch experience is free and does not offer subscriptions, purchases, game payments, rake or payouts. Historical entitlement or administrative grant records may remain. Removing a purchase interface does not automatically delete legacy records held by PokerMeet or a provider.
Sensitive information can include precise location, account credentials and private communications. We do not request social security numbers, financial account numbers or government ID for the free launch. We do not intentionally collect protected-classification, employment or education information, though users may voluntarily include it in content. Reported content and media submitted for moderation may be reviewed for safety enforcement.
Minimum Age Requirement Our Platform is intended for use only by individuals who are 21 years of age or older. We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 21. If you are under 21, please do not attempt to register for PokerMeet or send any personal information to us. If you believe that someone under 21 has provided personal information, contact hello@pokermeet.org so we can investigate and take appropriate action.
3. How Your Personal Information is Collected
We collect information you enter, upload or send; information generated by your use of account, event and community features; information from other users such as invitations and safety reports; and information from providers that authenticate you, deliver communications, host the service or help diagnose problems. Device permission controls apply to the camera and device location. Choosing an upload gives us access to the selected file.
Optional website and public Demo analytics are off until you choose Allow analytics. Keep analytics off leaves these surfaces usable. The choice is stored locally, without adding an account or tracking identifier to that preference. Choices on pokermeet.org and pokermeet.app are independent; we do not transfer Google Analytics identifiers between them. Global Privacy Control overrides an analytics opt-in. Unreadable preference storage defaults to analytics off.
Use [Privacy choices](https://www.pokermeet.org/privacy-choices) on the website, or Privacy choices in the public Demo, to change your decision. Withdrawal stops future optional analytics delivery and clears applicable first-party analytics cookies on that origin. It cannot recall information already sent. Contact us about previously collected data. Browser limitations can prevent a choice being saved; the controls explain when persistence fails.
Optional app analytics has its own account-specific choice on this installation in Settings → Legal & Privacy. Amplitude is excluded from signed-out and Demo sessions. Sentry error diagnostics are separate from this optional analytics choice. Essential authentication, security and service storage remain necessary when optional analytics is off.
4. Why We Use Your Personal Information
We use information to provide and secure accounts; enforce invitation, age, region and host-approval rules; coordinate games and communities; manage requests, attendance and address visibility; deliver requested notifications and county updates; process support, safety reports and privacy requests; diagnose service failures; and meet applicable legal obligations. Optional analytics helps us understand feature use and performance after consent.
Account/contact checks and public-host review support these functions but do not guarantee a person's identity or conduct. The free launch does not use personal information for credit checks, financing or processing game funds.
5. Who We Share Your Personal Information With
We disclose information needed to operate the Platform to service providers. These include Supabase for authentication, database and media storage; Vercel for website/app hosting; Expo for app delivery and notification services; Twilio for phone confirmation; Postmark for email delivery; Google Analytics for opted-in website and public Demo analytics; Amplitude for opted-in app analytics; and Sentry for error diagnostics. Authentication, map or location features also involve the platform or map provider used for that feature. Providers receive technical connection information as part of delivering their services and have their own data-handling terms.
Other users see the profiles, posts, messages and event information intended for their participation or community access. Exact venue addresses are visible to eligible accepted participants only during the normal address-release window. A host can use Panic Hide to remove address visibility for non-hosts immediately. These controls do not undo a recipient's prior knowledge of an address or a screenshot they already saved.
Authorized support/moderation personnel and contractors may access information needed for their work. We may disclose information when legally required, to investigate safety/security issues, or during a business transaction subject to appropriate confidentiality arrangements. We do not make paused identity-verification services part of the launch sign-up or game-access flow.
6. Personal Information We Sold or Shared
PokerMeet does not sell personal information for money and does not intentionally provide it for advertising audiences or cross-context behavioral advertising. Disclosures to operational and optional analytics providers are described above. Our privacy controls allow you to keep optional analytics off and honor Global Privacy Control for that purpose. You may also contact us to exercise applicable sale/sharing rights; switching analytics off is not a request to delete previously collected information.
7. Categories of Personal Information We Disclosed for a Business Purpose
Service delivery can involve account/contact identifiers; profile and event records; approximate or precise location; user content and communications; notification identifiers; technical activity and diagnostics; and optional analytics when allowed. Only the categories needed for the relevant function should be disclosed. Earlier verification/access records may be retained for the historical purposes described in this policy; paused functionality is not evidence that those records have been erased.
8. How Long Your Personal Information Will Be Kept
We retain personal information while needed to operate your account, fulfill the purposes described here, respond to support or safety matters, or meet applicable legal requirements. Retention varies by data type and provider. We do not promise a single period for all account records, media, backups, diagnostics and analytics.
Request account deletion in the app or through [Delete account](https://www.pokermeet.org/delete-account). Deletion processing includes account-associated content and stored media subject to applicable exceptions and ownership rules. Limited safety, fraud-prevention or legally required records may be retained with restricted access. Pausing verification does not automatically delete historical verification records. Contact us for retention details or a request concerning your records; do not send government ID or a selfie in an initial privacy request.
9. California Consumers: Your Rights Under the CCPA/CPRA
You have the right under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA), and certain other privacy and data protection laws, as applicable, to exercise free of charge:
Disclosure of Personal Information We Collect About You
You have the right to know, and request disclosure of:
- The categories of personal information we have collected about you, including sensitive personal information;
- The categories of sources from which the personal information is collected;
- Our business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing personal information;
- The categories of third parties to whom we disclose personal information, if any; and
- The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.
Please note that we are not required to:
- Retain any personal information about you that was collected for a single one-time transaction if, in the ordinary course of business, that information about you is not retained;
- Reidentify or otherwise link any data that, in the ordinary course of business, is not maintained in a manner that would be considered personal information; or
- Provide the personal information to you more than twice in a 12-month period.
Disclosure of Personal Information Sold, Shared, or Disclosed for a Business Purpose
In connection with any personal information we may sell, share, or disclose to a third party for a business purpose, you have the right to know:
- The categories of personal information about you that we sold or shared and the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold or shared; and
- The categories of personal information that we disclosed about you for a business purpose and the categories of persons to whom the personal information was disclosed for a business purpose.
You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information or sharing of your personal information for the purpose of targeted behavioral advertising. If you exercise your right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of your personal information, we will refrain from selling or sharing your personal information, unless you subsequently provide express authorization for the sale or sharing of your personal information.
For Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information requests, use [Privacy choices](https://www.pokermeet.org/privacy-choices) to turn off optional website analytics and contact hello@pokermeet.org for other applicable requests. Public Demo analytics has its own Privacy choices control.
Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information You have the right to limit the use and disclosure of your sensitive personal information to the use which is necessary to:
Perform the services or provide the goods reasonably expected by an average consumer who requests those goods or services;
To perform the following services: (1) Helping to ensure security and integrity to the extent the use of the consumer’s personal information is reasonably necessary and
proportionate for these purposes; (2) Short-term, transient use, including, but not limited to, non-personalized advertising shown as part of a consumer’s current interaction with the business, provided that the consumer’s personal information is not disclosed to another third party and is not used to build a profile about the consumer or otherwise alter the consumer’s experience outside the current interaction with the business; (3) Performing services on behalf of the business, including maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, processing or fulfilling orders and transactions, verifying customer information, processing payments, providing financing, providing analytic services, providing storage, or providing similar services on behalf of the business; and (4) Undertaking activities to verify or maintain the quality or safety of a service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by the business, and to improve, upgrade, or enhance the service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by the business; and
As authorized by further regulations
You have a right to know if your sensitive personal information may be used, or disclosed to a service provider or contractor, for additional, specified purposes.
For Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal Information requests, contact hello@pokermeet.org. Device settings control future device-location access; they do not erase previously submitted addresses or other records.
Right to Deletion Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:
- Delete your personal information from our records; and
- Direct any service providers or contractors to delete your personal information from their records.
- Direct third parties to whom the business has sold or shared your personal information to delete your personal information unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort.
Please note that we may not delete your personal information if it is reasonably necessary to:
- Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;
- Help to ensure security and integrity to the extent the use of the consumer’s personal information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for those purposes;
- Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;
- Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;
- Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;
- Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent;
- Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us
- Comply with an existing legal obligation; or
- Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.
Right of Correction If we maintain inaccurate personal information about you, you have the right to request us to correct that inaccurate personal information. Upon receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to correct the inaccurate personal information.
Protection Against Retaliation You have the right to not be retaliated against by us because you exercised any of your rights under the CCPA/CPRA. This means we cannot, among other things:
- Deny goods or services to you;
- Charge different prices or rates for goods or services, including through the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties;
- Provide a different level or quality of goods or services to you; or
- Suggest that you will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.
The free launch does not offer payment, subscription discounts or financial incentives in exchange for personal information or optional analytics consent.
10. How to Exercise Your Rights
If you would like to exercise any of your rights as described in this Privacy Policy, visit [Privacy choices](https://www.pokermeet.org/privacy-choices), [Delete account](https://www.pokermeet.org/delete-account), or [Support](https://www.pokermeet.org/support). You may also call us at (714) 253-7505, or email us at hello@pokermeet.org.
- Please note that you may only make a CCPA/CPRA-related data access or data portability disclosure request twice within a 12-month period.
- If you choose to contact us directly by website, you will need to provide us with:
- Enough account/contact information to locate your records;
- Reasonable, proportionate account-ownership confirmation when required. We will explain any additional information needed; please do not send identity documents or payment statements without a specific request; and
- A description of what right you want to exercise and the information to which your request relates.
- We are not obligated to make a data access or data portability disclosure if we cannot verify that the person making the request is the person about whom we collected information or is someone authorized to act on such person’s behalf.
- Any personal information we collect from you to verify your identity in connection with your request will be used solely for the purposes of verification.
