Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2026-10-01

What we collect

• If you sign in with Google: your name, email address, and profile picture, as provided by Google — used to identify your account and is never used to merge accounts by email alone.
• If you don't sign in: a random anonymous identifier stored in a cookie on your device, used to apply rate limits and to attach feedback you send to your games.
• Gameplay data: the moves you make, positions you review, and messages you send to the coach, so the product can function and so you can continue a session.
• Support payments: if you support Chess with Me, we store the amount, the date, and the months of mobile premium it adds up to, so your supporter mark and those months stay with your account. For a subscription made before September 2026, we store whether it is active and when it renews. We never see or store your card number — that is handled entirely by our payment processor, Stripe.

How we use it

To run the product (play chess, generate coaching responses, keep your game in sync), to apply rate limits that keep the service available to everyone, to process support payments, and to respond if you contact support.

Anonymous usage analytics

This is enabled by default and can be turned off at any time. We keep only coarse outcome and category counts to understand whether features help. These counts never include board positions, moves, messages, or account/session IDs. A server UTC capture time is used only for retention and weekly grouping. Raw events are kept for up to 28 days and summarized in private weekly aggregates.

The same setting covers a visit count that tells us whether people come back. A cookie (cwm_funnel) holds only the day of your first visit, a coarse source category (for example "search", "reddit" or a campaign tag in the link you followed; never the page you came from), the day you first got an answer from Mira, and the last day you were counted. It holds no ID: everyone who first arrived on the same day from the same source carries the same value. The server keeps only daily totals, never a record per visitor. Use the Usage analytics control in the product footer to opt out; opting out also deletes this cookie.

Who we share it with

• Google — for sign-in, and as the ad provider when ads are shown (see Advertising below).
• Stripe — for payment processing. Stripe receives your payment details directly; we do not.

We do not sell your data to anyone.

Advertising

We plan to show ads in Play, in a board beside the chessboard, to help pay for running Chess with Me. No ads are shown yet. When they are, they will be voluntary: you will be able to switch them off in the sidebar.

When ads are shown, they are served by Google AdSense. They load in a separate, sandboxed frame on a different web address, so the ad code cannot read your games or your messages to the coach.

Google and its partners may use cookies to show ads based on your visits to this and other websites. You can turn off personalised ads in Google's Ads Settings, or opt out of some third-party vendors at aboutads.info. Visitors in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland are asked for consent before personalised ads are shown. See how Google uses information from sites that use its services.

Where it's stored

Account, gameplay, and billing records are stored in a database on our server. The anonymous identifier is kept in a cookie and on our server.

Your choices

You can sign out at any time. To request deletion of your account and associated data, or to ask what data we hold about you, email us at the address below.

Children

This product is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from them.

Changes to this policy

We may update this page as the product changes. Material changes will be reflected in the "Last updated" date above.

Contact

Privacy and data deletion: privacy@resablic.com

Anything else: support@resablic.com