Privacy policy
ChessCheck Legions is a free chess game. You can play the computer without an account, and nothing about you is sent to us when you do. This page explains what we keep when you create an account to play online.
What we collect
- Account: your email address, and a password (stored only as a secure hash by our login provider). If you sign in with Google, we receive your name, email address and profile picture from Google. We do not get your Google password or access to anything else in your Google account.
- Profile: what you choose to add: username, display name, picture, bio, country, favourite army and skill level.
- Play: your online games (moves, results, ratings), tournament entries, XP, badges, login streak and daily missions, friends, Legion membership, and when you were last online.
- Messages: chat messages you send to friends, groups and Legions, and any reports you make.
- Voice calls: calls with friends during a game go directly between your two browsers (or through a relay that only passes them along). We don’t record or keep them. To connect, each browser learns the other’s network (IP) address, so only accept calls from people you know.
- Alerts: if you turn on alerts, the address your browser’s push service gives us for this device (or, in the Android and iOS apps, a Firebase device token), so we can send you challenges, friend requests, messages and other notifications. It is removed when you turn alerts off or delete your account.
- On your device: your settings, your progress against the computer and in the Conquest campaign are kept in your browser’s (or the app’s) local storage, along with the sign-in session. We use no advertising or tracking cookies.
How we use it
Only to run the game: signing you in, matching and playing online games, showing your profile, ratings and leaderboards, delivering messages and notifications, running tournaments, Legions and Legion wars, and keeping the site safe (for example the chat word filter and handling reports).
Who can see it
- Everyone: your public profile (username, name, picture, bio, country, rank, stats, badges, Legion and recent games).
- Your friends: when you are online, and your live games so they can watch.
- Chat members: messages in the conversations you are part of.
- Never shown to other players: your email address.
We do not sell your data or share it for advertising. It is stored with the services that run the site: Supabase (database and login) and Vercel (hosting), and Google if you choose Google sign-in. Alerts pass through your browser’s push service (for example Google, Mozilla or Apple) or, in the apps, Google’s Firebase Cloud Messaging, which only carry the alert to your device.
Your choices
- Edit or remove your profile details any time on your profile page.
- Block or report players, and turn off friend requests.
- Turn alerts on or off for each device on your profile page, or in your phone’s settings.
- Delete your account any time on your profile page (Delete my account): your account and its data are removed at once. Messages you sent stay in your friends’ chats without your name. You can also ask us by contacting the site admin, and we remove it within 30 days.
Children
Online play and chat are meant for players aged 13 and over. If you believe a younger child has made an account, contact us and we will remove it.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version is posted here with a new date.