Your data and choices

Privacy Policy

Version 2026-07-26 · Effective July 26, 2026

CHESSDATING.COM LLC, a Florida limited liability company (“ChessDating,” “we,” or “us”), operates ChessDating.com for adults to create dating profiles, play chess, and communicate after a game. This policy explains the information the service collects, why it is used, and the choices available to members.

Information we collect

• Account information: email address, verified-email status, date of birth, authentication identifiers, adult-verification status, account status, and security records.
• Profile information: display name, age, city or region, gender identity, pronouns, gender visibility, who you are interested in meeting, relationship intent, biography, interests, chess rating, favorite opening, and profile photos. Gender and dating-preference information may be considered sensitive personal information in some jurisdictions.
• Optional approximate location: if you choose Use my approximate location, your browser briefly provides device coordinates. The app rounds them to roughly a 7-mile area and keeps only that approximate point and your selected maximum distance on your device. Exact coordinates are not stored or sent to ChessDating servers, and other members do not receive them.
• Game and connection information: the server-issued match reservation, opponent reference, entitlement source, completion status, game result, timestamps, connection status, and chat consent. The current chessboard and move list are rendered on the member's device.
• Communications and safety information: messages, blocks, reports, support requests, moderation decisions, and evidence submitted for review.
• Technical information: device, browser, app version, IP-derived region, security events, crash data, and diagnostic logs.
• Purchase information: Stripe customer, Checkout Session, PaymentIntent, and subscription identifiers; selected plan or single-game Price; owner-approved amount and currency; payment, refund, dispute, and revocation status; subscription paid-through and cancellation state; an idempotent purchase-attempt reference; and whether a single-game entitlement was consumed by a server-side match reservation. Stripe processes full card details; ChessDating.com does not receive or store full card numbers or card security codes.

Age and identity verification

Stripe Identity performs the production document, live-capture, and matching-selfie checks. Supported passports, national identity cards, and driver's licenses can be used where Stripe supports the issuing country and document type. ChessDating.com receives the Stripe verification-session reference, status, timestamp, and limited failure information. After a successful check, the secure service reads the verified date of birth only to determine whether the member is at least 18; it does not store that verified date. To prevent one document from creating multiple accounts, the service creates a secret-keyed, one-way fingerprint from the verified document number, issuing country, and document type, then discards the raw number. Raw government-ID images, document numbers, barcodes, face images, and biometric templates remain with Stripe and are not stored in the ChessDating.com application database. Stripe's handling of verification data is also described in Stripe's Privacy Policy.

How we use information

• Create and secure accounts, verify eligibility, and provide member support.
• Display profiles only according to the product's game and connection rules.
• Match players, validate games, unlock post-game features, and deliver messages.
• Filter potential matches by an optional approximate-distance preference.
• Detect fraud, cheating, harassment, impersonation, sexual exploitation, and other prohibited conduct.
• Respond to reports, enforce policies, comply with law, and protect members and the public.
• Improve reliability, accessibility, performance, and product experience.
• Start and manage subscriptions and one-time game purchases, confirm access to paid features, prevent duplicate fulfillment, reserve a paid game exactly once, and handle payment, refund, or dispute support.

Photos, profiles, and messages

Full opponent profile content is returned only after the secure service confirms an authenticated, completed match reservation. Hosted messages are tied to that reservation and are visible to conversation participants; they may also be accessed by authorized safety personnel when reported, required by law, or reasonably necessary to prevent harm or enforce policy. Do not post sensitive information you do not want another member to know.

Sharing

Information may be shared with hosting, authentication, storage, analytics, moderation, communications, customer-support, and payment providers acting on our behalf. Stripe receives the account reference, email address, identity-verification data, and transaction details needed to operate Stripe Identity, process web subscriptions, and provide its secure customer portal. Information may also be shared with authorities or safety organizations when legally required or necessary to address serious harm, and as part of a business transaction subject to appropriate safeguards. ChessDating does not sell personal information or use sensitive dating-profile information for third-party behavioral advertising.

Retention

Account and profile data is retained while an account is active. In-app deletion removes the hosted profile, preferences, quota and match-reservation records, hosted bot-chat messages, direct billing and verification-account references, and the Firebase login. Device-local photos and match history are also cleared. Secret-keyed document fingerprints are de-identified and may be retained to prevent identity reuse. Verified safety decisions, processor payment records, and limited records may be retained longer when reasonably necessary for fraud prevention, safety, dispute resolution, legal obligations, or enforcement.

Your choices

Members can edit profile details, manage photos, block or report another member, stop a conversation, sign out, and initiate account deletion inside Settings. Approximate location is optional: you can leave distance set to Any distance, clear the saved approximation at any time, or revoke permission in browser or device settings. Distance is an estimate and may be inaccurate near boundaries. A web deletion path is also available at delete-account.html.

Adults only

The service is intended only for people age 18 and older. Accounts reasonably believed to belong to minors must be removed. Reports involving child sexual abuse or exploitation must be escalated according to applicable law and platform requirements.

Security and international use

The service uses encryption in transit, access controls, secure authentication, limited report rate controls, and privacy-preserving one-way network signals for verified safety enforcement. Raw IP addresses are not stored in the safety-enforcement tables. No system can guarantee absolute security. Where applicable law requires safeguards for an international data transfer, we use an appropriate legal mechanism.