At LichessDude.com, your privacy is important to Lichessdude. This privacy policy explains how Lichessdude.com collects, uses, and protects your information when you visit our website.
Information Lichessdude.com Collects
- Personal Information: When you contact Lichessdude.com or subscribe to our newsletter, Lichessdude.com may collect your name and email address.
- Usage Data: Lichessdude.com collects non-personal data such as IP addresses, browser types, and pages visited for analytical purposes.
How Lichessdude.com Uses Your Information
- To improve our content and user experience.
- To send newsletters and respond to inquiries.
- To analyze site performance.
Third-Party Services
We use third-party tools like Google Analytics and affiliate networks, which may collect their data.
Your Rights
You can request to access, correct, or delete your personal information at any time.
For more details, visit our full Privacy Policy page or contact Lichessdude.com at support@lichessdude.com.
Comments
Suggested text: When visitors leave comments on the site, Lichessdude.com collects the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
Suggested text: If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, Lichessdude.com will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, Lichessdude.com will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who does Lichessdude.com share your data with?
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long will Lichessdude.com retain your data?
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so Lichessdude.com can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users who register on our website (if any), Lichessdude.com also stores the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights do you have over your data?
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data Lichessdude.com holds about you, including any data you have provided to Lichessdude.com. You can also request that Lichessdude.com erase any personal data it holds about you. This does not include any data Lichessdude.com is obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.