Privacy Policy

Your Data With Us

The use of our website is possible without giving any personal data. If you wish to contact us by e-mail or via our contact form, we will store your personal data (e. g. name and e-mail address) for communication purposes.

You have the right at any time to receive information about the origin, recipient and purpose of your stored personal data free of charge. You also have the right to request the correction, blocking or deletion of this data.

Your Data and Third Parties

A transfer of your personal data to third parties will not take place, unless you give your express consent or the disclosure is required for legal and technical reasons.

For example, no e-mail can be sent to our and your Internet service provider without using your e-mail address. For security reasons, we only send e-mails to our Internet service provider via an encrypted connection.

For technical reasons, it is impossible to use a website without submitting your own IP address. The website can only be accessed via an encrypted connection

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

Cookies

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Additional services

This website uses LocalStorage to save the setting when Dark Mode support is turned on or off.
LocalStorage is necessary for the setting to work and is only used when a user clicks on the Dark Mode button.
No data is saved in the database or transferred.

Your Rights

If you have questions or want to enforce your rights, please contact us.

You can find more about your rights in the General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO) and in the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG).

You can find our current privacy policy always at https://www.chessforfuture.org/privacy-policy

Updated: January 2021