Privacy Policy

Last updated: June 9, 2026

This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Controller

Controller: ChessReads LLC
Address: 522 W Riverside Ave, Spokane, Washington 99201
Contact: [email protected]

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.
Affiliate means an entity that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with a party, where “control” means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest or other securities entitled to vote for election of directors or other managing authority.
Company (referred to as either “the Company”, “We”, “Us” or “Our” in this Agreement) refers to Chessreads.
Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
Country refers to: United States
Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.
Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
Service refers to the Website.
Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.
Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
Website refers to Chessreads, accessible from https://chessreads.com
You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Legal Bases for Processing

Our legal bases under Art. 6 GDPR include:

Consent: analytics (Google Analytics) and any optional marketing cookies activated via our consent banner.
Contract: providing user-requested services and responding to support requests.
Legitimate interests: ensuring security, availability and performance of the website (e.g., via Cloudflare CDN/WAF), preventing abuse, and maintaining server logs. Where we rely on legitimate interests, we balance our interests against your fundamental rights and freedoms.

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

Usage Data
Email (e.g. when subscribing to our newsletter)

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.

Usage Data may include information such as Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Service. The technologies We use may include:

Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.
Web Beacons. Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).

Cookies can be “Persistent” or “Session” Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser.

We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:

Necessary / Essential Cookies
Type: Session Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services.
Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.
Functionality Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time You use the Website.

For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding cookies, please visit our Cookies Policy or the Cookies section of our Privacy Policy.

Use of Your Personal Data

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.
To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.
For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Service.
To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application’s push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.
To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.
For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.
For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Service, products, services, marketing and your experience.

We may share Your personal information in the following situations:

With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, to contact You.
For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company.
With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.
With business partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services or promotions.
With other users: when You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside.
With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.

If you subscribe to our newsletter, we will process your email address to send you updates, reviews, offers, and news related to Chessreads.

Legal basis: Your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR).
Retention: We will retain your email address until you withdraw your consent or unsubscribe from the newsletter.
Withdrawal: You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us at [email protected].

We use a third-party email delivery provider to send our newsletters. The provider processes subscriber data (such as email address and technical delivery information) on our behalf. Data may be processed in the United States and other countries under appropriate safeguards as required by applicable law.

Retention of Your Personal Data

We will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.
Analytics data retention is managed in the respective dashboards and is limited to what is necessary for the stated purposes.
Server and security logs are retained only as long as necessary for security, troubleshooting and legal compliance, after which they are deleted or anonymized.
We also retain and use your personal data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.

The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.

Delete Your Personal Data

You have the right to delete or request that We assist in deleting the Personal Data that We have collected about You.

Our Service may give You the ability to delete certain information about You from within the Service.

You may update, amend, or delete Your information at any time by signing in to Your Account, if you have one, and visiting the account settings section that allows you to manage Your personal information. You may also contact Us to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that You have provided to Us.

Please note, however, that We may need to retain certain information when we have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Business Transactions

If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Law enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Other legal requirements

The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

Comply with a legal obligation
Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
Protect against legal liability

Your Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information. You can change your cookie and tracking choices at any time by managing your preferences below:

FunctionalAlways active

The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.

Preferences

The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.

Statistics

The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes.

The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.

Marketing

The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.

Your U.S. State Privacy Rights

Depending on your state of residence, you may have additional rights under state privacy laws, such as the California Consumer Privacy Act (as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act), the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act, the Colorado Privacy Act, the Connecticut Data Privacy Act, the Utah Consumer Privacy Act, and similar laws in other states. These rights may include the right to access, correct, delete, or obtain a copy of the personal information we hold about you, and to opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of personal information or of targeted advertising. We do not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights. The availability and scope of these rights vary by state and applicable law. To exercise a right, contact us at [email protected]; we may need to verify your identity before responding.

EEA and UK Visitors

If you are located in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) may apply to our processing of your personal data. Our legal bases for processing are your consent, the performance of a contract, and our legitimate interests, as described above.

You have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict processing, object to processing, and data portability, as well as the right to withdraw consent at any time (without affecting the lawfulness of processing before withdrawal). You may also lodge a complaint with your local data protection supervisory authority.

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Children’s Privacy

Our Service is not directed to children and we do not knowingly process personal data of children under the age required by applicable law (for example, 13 in the United States and 16 in the European Union). If you are a parent or guardian and you believe your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from a child without the required parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information.

If we need to rely on consent as a legal basis and your country requires parental consent, we may require your parent’s consent before we collect and use that information.

Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Service Providers and Third Parties

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited. Google Analytics uses cookies and similar technologies to analyze how visitors use the site and to create reports on website activity.
The data collected by Google (e.g. visited pages, time spent on the site, device type, location based on IP address) may be transferred to Google servers in the United States and processed there.
The processing of data is based on your consent (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR). Google participates in the EU–US Data Privacy Framework, ensuring an adequate level of data protection.
Cookies related to Google Analytics are only set after you provide your consent through our cookie banner.

Cloudflare

We use Cloudflare, a service provided by Cloudflare, Inc., to improve the security, performance, and reliability of our website. Cloudflare acts as a content delivery network (CDN) and reverse proxy.
When you visit our website, your requests are routed through Cloudflare servers, and data such as your IP address, requested content, and certain technical information (e.g. browser type, operating system) are processed for security purposes (e.g. DDoS protection, firewall filtering, bot detection) and for faster content delivery.
Cloudflare may place strictly necessary cookies (e.g. __cf_bm, load-balancing cookies) that are essential for security and availability and are not used for advertising or cross-site tracking.
Data may be transferred to servers outside the European Union, including the United States. Cloudflare participates in the EU–US Data Privacy Framework, ensuring an adequate level of protection for personal data.

Hosting and Infrastructure

Our website is operated using third-party cloud infrastructure and content-delivery providers (including Cloudflare). These providers process data such as IP addresses and server log files on our behalf and implement technical and organizational security measures to protect it.
Depending on the provider and configuration, your data may be processed in the United States or other countries. Where personal data is transferred across borders, we rely on appropriate safeguards as required by applicable law.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:

By email: [email protected]
By post: ChessReads LLC, 522 W Riverside Ave, Spokane, Washington 99201