Privacy Policy

1. What this covers

This policy describes what the Discord Chess bot and the discordchess.com website (the "Service") collect, why, and what happens to it. The short version: the Service stores only what the chess features need, uses it only to run those features, and never sells or shares it.

2. What is collected

• Discord identifiers: numeric user, server, channel, and message IDs involved in games, challenges, settings, and subscriptions. Display names are read live from Discord for rendering boards and messages; they are not stored in the database.
• Game data: moves, results, match history, timestamps, draw/undo/vote state, and engine analysis of finished games.
• Settings: per-server challenge opt-ins and channels, per-user chat-move and ping preferences.
• Cosmetics: material balances and owned piece sets.
• Premium entitlements: Discord entitlement IDs with the user or server they cover, so Premium unlocks work. Payment details never reach the Service - purchases happen entirely inside Discord.
• Web sessions: random link tokens with their game, side, and open/expiry times. The website sets no cookies and runs no analytics or third-party trackers.

When chat-move listening is turned on, the bot reads messages in that channel only to recognize chess moves; message text is not stored - only the resulting move. The Service never collects passwords, email addresses, or payment information.

3. How it is used

Stored data exists solely to operate the Service: keeping games playable across restarts, showing boards and records, enforcing game rules, and serving the web boards and reviews. It is not used for advertising, profiling, or training, and it is not sold or shared with third parties. Data moves through Discord's API subject to Discord's own privacy policy.

4. Where it lives and how long

Data is stored in a database on a server operated by the Service's maintainer and is retained so match history and records keep working. Engine analyses expire automatically after a day. Web link sessions expire an hour after first open.

5. Your choices

• Remove the bot from a server to stop all collection there.
• Turn off chat-move listening with /chess listen off, and server challenges with /chess server challenges enabled: False.
• Request deletion of data tied to your account or server by contacting the operator (section 7).

6. Children

The Service is only for people who meet Discord's minimum age requirements in their region, and it does not knowingly collect data from anyone below them.

7. Contact and changes

Questions and deletion requests: reach the operator via GitHub at @malmgrens4. This policy may be updated from time to time; the date above reflects the current version.