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Message: [QUOTE="donshell, post: 1028921, member: 48792"] [b]here is the email[/b] Thank you for your Email. PokerStars has been listening to recent player feedback regarding SharkScope. We want to limit the amount of information that third party results websites can publish because of our strong commitment to upholding the integrity of our games. We oppose websites publishing player profitability data by default for two key reasons: Firstly, many of our players simply don't want their ROI information to be publicly available. They have a right to privacy of this information. Secondly, it gives an unfair advantage to those players who are able to obtain ROI data about players who have not consented for their information to be shown. We have been working with various sites that currently display player profitability data and the vast majority of those sites have agreed to modify the default settings for the display of player data. Sites who are working with us have agreed that profitability data will only be available on players who have themselves specifically opted in, thus giving their consent for their profitability data to be displayed on that service. The default setting will be that tournament cashes only will be displayed. The sites who intend to comply with our data policy also agree to allow players to opt out totally from their service, so that zero information will be displayed about them. Among the sites that have agreed to comply and that will remain permitted are: [URL="http://www.bluffmagazine.com/thepokerdb/"][COLOR=#0068cf]http://www.bluffmagazine.com/thepokerdb/[/COLOR][/URL] [URL="http://www.officialpokerrankings.com/"][COLOR=#0068cf]http://www.officialpokerrankings.com[/COLOR][/URL] [URL="http://arcatum.net/startracker"][COLOR=#0068cf]http://arcatum.net/startracker[/COLOR][/URL] [URL="http://www.playerpeek.com/"][COLOR=#0068cf]http://www.playerpeek.com/[/COLOR][/URL] [URL="http://www.pokerprolabs.com/"][COLOR=#0068cf]http://www.pokerprolabs.com[/COLOR][/URL] Note that these sites might not necessarily be able to show all the information they currently display, once opt-in is fully functional. SharkScope has refused to remove player profitability and ROI data by default and therefore their service now falls into the category of prohibited for use in conjunction with the PokerStars Client. SharkScope will remain a prohibited service, for the reasons listed above. We ask that players do not use it at all in conjunction with PokerStars - the website, the HUD, or any other future tools that they might develop. You may still check your own stats provided the PokerStars client is not running. PokerStars will focus its enforcement efforts predominantly on limiting the effectiveness of SharkScope and other dataminers by preventing their ability to extract the data from the PokerStars client without either the permission of PokerStars, or the players concerned. We will not be closing accounts of players found to be using SharkScope. Instead, we will be working hard to ensure that the data gathered by SharkScope is incomplete and unreliable. We will, however, be warning players who "shout out" statistics in chat, under our "abuse of other players" chat rules. To report such instances, please call a Chat Moderator using the tools built into the PokerStars client. We believe that this policy will deliver on our commitment to listening to players who have overwhelmingly asked us to prevent SharkScope from publishing their private information, while not being heavy handed against the many players who aren't aware of the rules against SharkScope, or who are concerned about their browsing privacy. As always, we welcome feedback on this policy, so please email us anytime at [email]support@pokerstars.com[/email]. We will work hard to deliver the best possible poker games, with the highest standards of integrity now and into the future. Regards, Howard PokerStars Support Team [/QUOTE]

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