1.PROTECTING YOUR INFORMATION:
At Worldchesschampions.com, your privacy is important to us. When you visit our website, two types of information from you are directly collected by www.worldchesschampions.com : 1) specific information you voluntarily submit for availing our services directly through us or our partners / third party Affiliates/ Partners and 2) general information our site gathers automatically of website visitors for helping in further enhancing user experience. Our primary aim is to help you enjoy the world of chess and network with other chess players across the globe and fulfill your requests for products and services typically related to chess. Our mission is to keep improving and providing a world class experience by having a better understanding of your usage pattern and any direct specific requests and further feedback provided by you. We are committed to the privacy of our users and do not rent, trade or sell users information to other companies.
This policy does not apply to the practices of third part affiliates/partners/advertisers that worldchesschampions.com does not own or control, or to people that worldchesschampions.com does not employ or manage. In addition, certain services which are provided through its partners/ third party affiliates/advertisers may have their own associated privacy statements and Terms and conditions of Use, which the users should read prior to using their services.
2.INFORMATION COLLECTION AND SHARING
We offer a number of services that do not require you to register for an account or provide any personal information to us, such as viewing profiles of world chess champions. In order to provide our full range of services, we may collect and share the information as described below:
Information You Choose to Share
a) Basic Registration: For usage of most of the free services including gaming and content, as a minimum we only need your basic registration details to get you started, ie, User Name, Password and Email address. You may also anonymously visit the site for seeing some of the content and services which do not require registration. WE DO NOT SHARE YOUR PASSWORD WITH ANY OTHER USER, EXCEPT IF THERE IS A REQUEST AS DESIRED BY LAW &/or WITH THIRD PARTY AGENCIES (AFFILIATED/ NON-AFFILIATED) / LAW ENFORCING AGENCIES TO HANDLE FRAUDELENT &/or OTHER ISSUES RELATED TO AVOIDING ANY HARM TO OTHER USERS &/or WWW.WORLDCHESSCHAMPIONS.COM &/OR TO SOCIETY AT LARGE.
b) Sharing with other Users: At www.worldchesschampions.com we want to help you reach out and network with the chess players and www.worldchesschampions.com’ s user community. You choose what information you put in your profile and share about your personal self, your chess pedigree, your exposure to chess, your chess relationships you have and about your contributions to the chess world through www.worldchesschampions.com, including contact details, personal information and pictures, games, videos, your comments you post, your messages, emails, chat about chess and chess blogs among other things. Please keep in mind that when posting comments, messages, photos, videos, etc this information will be publicly available to all users of www.worldchesschampions.com who are registered or otherwise. All such sharing of information is done at your own risk. We collect this information so that we can provide you the service and offer personalized features. In most cases, we retain it so that, for instance, you can return to view your prior information or share it more.
c) Sharing with Third Party Affiliates/ Partners where you choose to purchase the desired products/services provided by them: When ordering we may ask you for your name, e-mail address, mailing address, phone number, credit card information or other information to enable you to buy the desired products/services such as books, softwares, DVDs etc from our 3rd party affiliates/partners such as Amazon.com or shredder.com or rybka.com, etc. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.
General Information We Gather
We will occasionally send emails to all registered members with newsletters that announce various chess related news, newer features introduced, puzzles, games and other special promotions. If you prefer not to receive such information, please email stopmail@worldchesschampions.com with your request |
As you browse our Web site, we collect standard tracking data, which we use to evaluate site traffic and usage patterns. Furthermore, cookies and/or web beacons collect data in the ad serving process. This information is aggregated with tracking data from all site visitors. We use such aggregated information to help us evaluate our site and to improve our services to clients and provide targeted marketing and advertising of products and services which might be of further interest to you.
Sharing aggregated non-personal information with 3rd party affiliates/Partners/ Advertisers: We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information, such as the number of users who followed a particular chess video, for example, or how many users clicked on a particular advertisement. Such non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing and advertising purposes of products/services offered by www.worldchesschampions.com or of third party Affiliates/ Partners and advertisers.
Information which might be shared with other agencies/companies/ individuals under limited circumstances:
a) We believe that access, use, preservation or disclosure of your information in good faith by third party agencies (affiliated/ non-affiliated) or law enforcing agencies, is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or (d) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of www.worldchesschampions.com, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.
b) If the ownership of all or substantially all of the www.worldchesschampions.com business were to change, your user information may be transferred to the new owner so the service can continue operations. In any such transfer of information, your user information would remain subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Policy. In case a new Privacy Policy is put in place prior to or during an ownership transfer, the same would be communicated to you via email prior to the change or by placing a prominent notice on our site.
Accessing and updating personal information
You may as desired by you add /modify/ and delete most of the advanced registration information from time to time. In the case of basic registration you may choose to suitably change your password from time to time to further secure your information. However information which is publicly posted such as games, videos, photos, blogs, etc and other basic registration information such as User Name and first and last updated email id would be retained and would not be accessible for deletion to the users.
Declining to share personal information: You can decline to submit personal information to any of our products/services, in which case www.worldchesschampions.com may not be able to provide those products/services to you.
CONFIDENTIALITY & INFORMATION SECURITY
Worldchesschampions.com is committed to handling your purchasing and billing information with high standards of information security. At www.worldchesschampions.com we implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information.
All credit card information you supply is transmitted through the industry standard technology Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology ensuring that the data is appropriately encrypted and secure.
www.worldchesschampions.com will never ask you for your password or your credit card related sensitive information via email. If you receive an email apparently from us requesting sensitive information, it is a forgery. In such an event, we suggest you do not reply to the email, but instead forward that email to support@worldchesschampions.com for investigation.
3.THIRD PARTY AFFILIATES/ PARTNERS/ADVERTISERS
Third Party Affiliates/ Partners
In an attempt to provide you with increased value, we may include reputed third party links on our site typically related to chess resource providers such as rybka.com,shredder.com, amazon.com,etc . These linked sites have separate and independent privacy policies and you are encouraged to read them before purchase of any products/services from the third party affiliates/partners. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for these linked sites content, their activities and the information they may gather expressly or automatically. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these linked sites (including if a specific link does not work).
Third Party Advertising
Advertisements that appear on www.worldchesschampions.com are sometimes delivered (or "served") directly to users by third party advertisers. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies such as JavaScript to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. Doing this allows the advertising network to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement in order to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. In this way, they may compile information about where individuals using your computer or browser saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by www.worldchesschampions.com and does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any of its advertisers.
4.COOKIES
Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive or equivalent storage device through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site's or service provider's systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information.
You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser (such as, Firefox, Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer) settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies. If you turn cookies off, you won't have access to many features that make your site experience more efficient and some of our services will not function properly.
5.CHILDREN
Worldchesschampions.com is proud to maintain a decorum suitable for children, and children of all ages are very much welcomed here. However, when a child under age 13 registers with worldchesschampions.com, we suggest that a parent is present to prevent the child from inadvertently volunteering sensitive information and is particularly watchful on the communication on chats, blogs, comments, etc.
We recommend that minors over the age of 13, ask their parents for permission before sending any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet.
6.CHANGES TO OUR POLICY
www.worldchesschampions.com may update this policy as required. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page. Policy changes will apply only to information collected after the date of the change.
We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your www.worldchesschampions.com account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.
7.TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Please also visit our Terms and Conditions section establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use of our website.
8.YOUR CONSENT
By using or accessing www.worldchesschampions.com , you are providing your consent and accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions of Use.
9.MORE INFORMATION
If you have any other questions, concerns or comments about our privacy policy, feel free to write us at feedback@worldchesschampions.com and we will be happy to address whatever concerns you have |
