ChessLab

Legal notice

ChessLab is an online chess site: games between players, in the browser.

Data collected

  • Your name, only visible to you.
  • Your username, shown to the other players.
  • Your e-mail address, to log in, confirm your account and receive the messages of the site.
  • Your games and their moves, your language and your appearance settings.
  • The addresses you send a game invitation to.
  • Technical data of your sessions (IP address and browser), kept while the session lasts, and the technical logs of the server, used for security and to fix errors.

Purpose

These data are only used to run the site: your account, your games, the invitations and the notifications you choose. They are neither sold nor shared, and are not used for advertising.

Retention

Your data are kept as long as your account exists. You can delete your account from Settings › Profile: your profile and its child profiles are deleted, your games in progress end by resignation, and your name no longer appears in the games of other players, where you are shown as a deleted player.

An address a game invitation was sent to is deleted as soon as the game starts, when it is cancelled, or when the account of the person who invited or of the invited person is deleted.

Guest accounts

You can play a game from its link without creating an account. The guest account then only holds the username you choose, your games, the date of your last visit and a personal link, shown to you only, that lets you come back from another device: no e-mail address, no password. The link of the game does not let you back in.

A guest account without activity for 30 days is deleted automatically: its games in progress end by resignation. You can delete it earlier from Settings › Profile, or turn it into a full account.

Child profiles

A child profile is created and managed by a parent account. It has no e-mail address: only a username and a code chosen by the parent, who can change or delete them at any time.

Cookies and local storage

The site only uses what it strictly needs to work: a session cookie, a security cookie against forged requests (CSRF), a cookie to stay logged in if you ask for it, and your appearance choice kept in the local storage of your browser. No advertising or audience tracker is used, so no consent is asked.

Your rights

You can access, correct or delete your data at any time. Most of it can be changed from the settings of your account.