Privacy

You can watch every board without an account. The players you follow, your board colours and light or dark mode are kept on your phone only.

If you turn on alerts, your phone shows notifications for the players you follow. In a browser with push alerts, we keep your device's push address and the names you follow so we can send them. If you choose email alerts, we keep your email address and the names you follow, and every email has an unsubscribe link that deletes them.

Only camera volunteers use the camera. The chess pieces are read on the phone itself; video frames are not uploaded. The moves, board positions and clock times it reads are published as the live game. If a volunteer turns on live video, the picture is sent directly to people watching that board and is not recorded. Photos of pairing sheets are read on the phone, and only if that fails are they sent to a text reading service (OCR.space) to read the names.

Bluetooth is used only to connect an electronic chess board you choose (DGT or Chessnut). The app does not use Bluetooth to find your location.

Organisers publish pairings and results (player names, ratings and US Chess IDs), as is normal for chess events. School and grade are visible to organisers only. To correct or remove a player's details, contact the organiser or us.

If you request a broadcast, sign up for product news or contact us, we keep what you type in the form to reply to you.

No advertising tracking, no selling or sharing of personal information, no accounts for viewers, and no location tracking. Data is stored with our hosting providers (Supabase and Vercel) and email is sent through Resend.

Many players are children. Viewers are not asked for any personal information, and we only show what organisers publish for a tournament.

Unsubscribe from any alert email, turn alerts off on the Following page, or ask us through Help and contact and we will delete what we hold about you.