Privacy Policy

1. No accounts

Relay Chess has no accounts and no sign-in. When you first visit, the server gives your browser a random player id and a nickname, stored in your browser for up to 30 days. Clearing your site data resets it. We never ask for your name, email or password to play.

2. What we keep, and for how long

• Finished games: moves, nicknames and player ids, so review links keep working.
• Leaderboard scores: wins, losses and draws per nickname for the current day and week. Deleted automatically about a day after the period ends.
• Games in progress and room chat: held in server memory only, and gone when the room closes or the server restarts.
• Contact form: the name, email and message you send us, so we can reply.
• Your theme and board color: stored only in your browser.

3. Analytics

We use privacy-friendly page analytics (Vercel Analytics) to see which pages are used. If Google Analytics is enabled on this deployment, it records anonymous usage events. We do not sell, rent or share your data for advertising.

4. Children

Relay Chess does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. Because we don't ask for personal information to play, the only way we'd receive any is through the contact form. If a child has contacted us, ask us and we'll delete it.

5. Your choices

• Clear your browser's site data for Relay Chess to drop your player id and nickname.
• Ask us through the contact page to delete a message you sent.
• Everything else expires on its own as described above.

6. Open source

The code that runs Relay Chess is open source, so you can check exactly what is stored. Other people may run their own copies; this policy covers the copy at relaychess.com.

7. Changes

We may update this policy. The date at the top shows when it last changed.