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Privacy Policy

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Your privacy is important to us. Playstockfish.com does not show ads, does not use advertising or tracking cookies, and does not sell or share your data. This policy explains the small amount of anonymous information we record to understand how the site is used.

Overview

Playstockfish.com is a free chess site. You do not need an account to use it, and we do not ask for or store any personal details. We keep a simple, anonymous count of visits so we can see which pages are worth improving. That is the full extent of the data we collect.

What We Record

When you open a page, we record the following in our own systems. Nothing here identifies you personally:

Page Visited: The address of the page you viewed, so we know which parts of the site are used.
Country: Your country, as reported by our content delivery network. We do not record city, region, or any precise location.
Device Type: Whether you are on a mobile device or a desktop computer. We do not record device identifiers.
Referring Site: If you arrived from another website, the domain name of that site (for example, a search engine or forum). Never the full address.
A Daily Anonymous Visitor Code: So that one person visiting five pages is not counted as five visitors, we generate a short code from your IP address, your browser type, and the current date. Your IP address is never written to our records — only this code is. Because the date is part of it, the code changes every day and cannot be used to follow you over time or link you to any other site.

How Long We Keep It

These records are counters, not profiles, and they delete themselves automatically:

Cookies

Playstockfish.com sets no cookies for visitors. There are no advertising cookies, no analytics cookies, and no consent banner to click through, because there is nothing to consent to. A single sign-in cookie is used on the private administration page, which is not part of the public site.

Third Parties

We do not run advertising and we do not use third-party analytics services such as Google Analytics. Some resources used to display the site — web fonts, icons and the chess engine — are delivered from public content networks, which necessarily see the request your browser makes for those files. We do not share any of our own records with anyone.

Data We Do Not Collect

Playstockfish.com does not:

Collect Personal Information: We do not ask for, collect, or store names, email addresses, passwords, or other directly identifying personal information.
Track You Across Sites: We do not build advertising profiles, follow you to other websites, or sell or share data with third parties.
Store Your Games: Games you play against the engine run in your own browser and are not sent to or saved on our servers.

Children's Privacy

Our website is not directed to children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided information to our site, please contact us.

International Users

If you are accessing our site from outside the United States, please be aware that the anonymous records described above are stored and processed in the United States.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated "Last Updated" date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.

Contact Us

If you have questions about this privacy policy, please visit our Contact Page.

Last updated: July 2026