Fundamental Principles

Your privacy is important to us. We are thoughtful about the personal information we ask you to provide and the personal information that we collect about you through the operation of our services. We store personal information for only as long as we have a reason to keep it.

Below is our Privacy Policy, which incorporates and clarifies these principles.

Web Analytics

This page uses CloudFlare Web Analytics to analyze traffic. No personal data is stored. All data is stored anonymously.

Sign in

You can sign in by using a third-party service (called OAuth). That way, ChessMonitor stores an identifier about you, but the password is not transferred in the process.

• Chess.com: When you connect your account, ChessMonitor stores your profile identifier and your mail address.
• Lichess: When you connect your account, ChessMonitor stores your profile identifier and your mail address.
• Google: When you use Google to login, ChessMonitor stores your mail address. You can withdraw access for ChessMonitor anytime in your Google permissions settings.

The only personal information stored in the process is the profile ID and the mail address from your login provider.

Account Connection

In addition, you can link other accounts. These are only linked to add special privileges (like a subscriber role). We do not store the mail addresses of these accounts:

• Discord: When you connect your account, ChessMonitor stores your user ID and name.
• Reddit: When you connect your account, ChessMonitor stores your user name.

Newletter and Emails

This page uses smtp2go.com to send emails. This includes confirmation mails and newsletter mails. In case you want to unsubscribe from any newsletter, you can click at the unsubscribe link at the end of any mail to manage your subscription.

Account

In addition to your login information, ChessMonitor downloads your chess games from Chess.com and/or Lichess.org to provice you statistics:

This contains various information like the profile URL, player name, number of wins/draws/losses, title (e.g. GM), openings, moves, start times and more. This data is public information available to anyone and evaluated by ChessMonitor to present you various statistics.

Chess Games of Users

ChessMonitor might also parse games of users not using ChessMonitor. For this, we are using open data sources. You can find a full list of sources in the Credits.

Account Deletion

The mail address is stored in the database. If you want to delete your account, please write me a mail to remove your data from the database.

Under the European Union’s GDPR, you enjoy the following privacy-related rights:

1. Right to Information: You have the right to know what personally identifiable information of you we collect and process, where we do this and with which partners. We also have to inform you about ways to opt out of any data collection and retention, although some data storage (such as storing your project files) is necessary to provide our service to you. As an EU resident, you may contact a government data protection office if you believe that your privacy rights have been violated.
2. Right to Access: You may request to receive all information we store from you at any time.
3. Right to Rectification: You can change account information, such as your display name and email address, in your account settings. If you believe that we store other inaccurate information about you, you may contact us at any time, providing the updated information.
4. Right to Erasure: You may request that we remove all personally identifiable information about you from our systems at any time. In some cases, e.g. if you delete your account, we cannot continue to provide service to you afterwards.
5. Right to Restriction of Processing: You may partition us to temporarily suspend the processing of your personally identifiable information if you believe that we store or process inaccurate information about you or unlawfully process your data.
6. Right to Data Portability: You have the right to receive the data we stored about you in a machine-readable format that can potentially be used with the services of other vendors or by yourself.
7. Right to Object: You may, at any time, object to further processing of your data by us. This includes, for example, email marketing, and complements the Right to Erasure.

Please keep in mind, that most of the information shown on ChessMonitor.com are provided by other providers. An example might be the name of your account profile on Chess.com or Lichess that might be displayed by us. In case you want to update or change that information, you might need to contact these providers first to change or erase your data.