This Agreement applies to how Chess-Online uses the collected and received personal information about users, including information about the user's previous use of Chess-Online products and services. Personal information is information that can be correlated with the identity of the user (your name, email address or phone number) and is not available from other public sources. Where appropriate, we expressly indicate in our agreements on the use of information that can be correlated with the user's personality. All other information is either anonymous to us or used under a pseudonym.
The Privacy Policy also provides information about cookies, the use of cookies by Chess-Online and other companies.
This Agreement does not apply to companies that are not owned or controlled by Chess-Online, or persons who are not in an employment or administrative relationship with Chess-Online.
Collection of information and its use
Chess-Online collects personally identifiable information when you create a Chess-Online account
When registering for Chess-Online, we ask for your email address. Your personal email address will not appear anywhere on the site and will only be used as an account (login) for your Chess-Online login, as well as for sending Chess-Online notifications.
Chess-Online may collect other personal information from you (your first and last name, date of birth, gender, location, as well as information about your profession, occupation and personal interests), but only if you voluntarily provide it. Any information entered into your Chess-Online profile becomes publicly available and can be accessed by anyone. You are under no obligation to provide such information, and you must exercise caution when posting your personally identifiable information to your Chess-Online profile.
Chess-Online automatically receives and logs technical information from your web browser to the server logs, including your IP address, Chess-Online cookie information, software and hardware settings, and the URL of the requested page. As soon as you register with Chess-Online and subscribe to our services, you are no longer anonymous to us, and the details of what you used will be associated with your account.
Chess-Online uses information (including anonymous, pseudonymous and personally identifiable information) for the following general purposes: personalizing the ads and content shown to you, fulfilling your orders for products and services, improving your service , contacting you, conducting research and providing anonymous reporting for external and internal users.
Cookies
Chess-Online may install and use cookies on your computer.
Chess-Online allows other companies that serve advertisements on some of our pages to set and use cookies on your computer. The use of cookies by other companies is subject to their privacy agreements and is not governed by this document. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to Chess-Online cookies.
Ability to edit data related to the account
The User may change the information in his Chess-Online Account at any time.
We reserve the right to send you communications regarding the Chess-Online Services, such as service announcements, administrative and other communications regarding the Chess-Online Service, without giving you the option to opt out of receiving them.
Public Pages
A Public Page is any Chess-Online page that is publicly accessible and can be indexed by search engines.
Chess-Online gives you the ability to post and exchange data and information on publicly accessible pages such as forums.
You should exercise caution if you choose to disclose personally identifiable information on publicly accessible pages. Please be aware that this information may remain on the public pages of said Services indefinitely.
You are solely responsible for any information that you disclose and distribute on publicly accessible pages.
Changes to the agreement
Chess-Online may periodically amend this Privacy Policy. We will notify you of material changes in the way we handle personal information either by sending a notice to your primary email address or by placing a prominent notice on our site.