This policy covers how The Online Turn Based Chess Association treats personal information that The Online Turn Based Chess Association collects and receives, including information related to your past use of The Online Turn Based Chess Association products and services. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that The Online Turn Based Chess Association does not own or control, or to people that The Online Turn Based Chess Association does not employ or manage. In addition, certain The Online Turn Based Chess Association services may have their own associated privacy statements.

Collecting Information

The Online Turn Based Chess Association collects personal information when you register with The Online Turn Based Chess Association, when you use The Online Turn Based Chess Association products or services, when you visit The Online Turn Based Chess Association pages or the pages of certain The Online Turn Based Chess Association partners, and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes. The Online Turn Based Chess Association may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain from business partners or other companies. When you register we ask for information such as your name, email address, birth date, gender, zip code, occupation, industry, and personal interests. Once you register with The Online Turn Based Chess Association and sign in to our services, you are not anonymous to us. The Online Turn Based Chess Association automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, The Online Turn Based Chess Association cookie information, and the page you request. The Online Turn Based Chess Association uses information for the following general purposes: to customize the advertising and content you see, fulfill your requests for products and services, improve our services, contact you, conduct research, and provide anonymous reporting for internal and external clients.

Cookies

The Online Turn Based Chess Association may set and access The Online Turn Based Chess Association ‘cookies’ on your computer. The Online Turn Based Chess Association lets other companies that show advertisements on some of our pages set and access their cookies on your computer. Other companies' use of their cookies is subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Advertisers or other companies do not have access to The Online Turn Based Chess Association's cookies.

Your Information

You can edit your The Online Turn Based Chess Association account information at any time. We reserve the right to send you certain communications relating to the The Online Turn Based Chess Association service, such as service announcements, administrative messages and the The Online Turn Based Chess Association Newsletter, that are considered part of your The Online Turn Based Chess Association account, without offering you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving them. You can delete your account by contacting The Online Turn Based Chess Association.

Confidentiality and Security

We limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs. We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to protect personal information about you.

Protecting Your Information

The Online Turn Based Chess Association does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other people or nonaffiliated companies except to provide products or services you've requested, when we have your permission, or under the following circumstances:

• We provide the information to trusted partners who work on behalf of or with The Online Turn Based Chess Association under confidentiality agreements. These companies may use your personal information to help The Online Turn Based Chess Association communicate with you about offers from The Online Turn Based Chess Association and our marketing partners. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.


• We respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims;


• We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of The Online Turn Based Chess Association's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.


• We transfer information about you if The Online Turn Based Chess Association is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, The Online Turn Based Chess Association will notify you before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Policy Updates

The Online Turn Based Chess Association may update this policy. 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 The Online Turn Based Chess Association account or by placing a prominent notice on our site.