Privacy

ChessIntel is run by a small team. Here's what we do with your data, in plain language.

What we collect

• From you (the parent): your email and a password when you create your account. If you buy the pilot, payment runs through Stripe — we never see your card number.
• About your kid: first name only, their rating(s), and (optionally) their Chess.com or Lichess username so we can pull recent games from those platforms' public APIs — up to the last 50 games at signup, then new games as your pilot continues.
• The games: whatever you send — scoresheet photos, typed or pasted PGNs, and the pulled online games.
• An improvement profile: we keep a per-kid summary of recurring patterns, notable games, and progress. This is the memory that makes report five smarter than report one.

We don't ask for your kid's last name, school, address, or phone number, and we don't collect anything from your kid directly — you submit on their behalf.

What we do with it

We use it to write your reports and to track your kid's patterns across games — the longitudinal memory is the whole point. Reports are generated by software: a chess engine (Stockfish) analyzes every move, and an AI model writes the plain-language explanation from the engine's findings. We spot-check reports for quality. We don't sell your data, we don't use it for advertising, and we don't share it with anyone outside the processors below.

Who else touches the data

• Anthropic — the AI provider. It reads scoresheet photos (to digitize the moves) and game data (to write report prose). Data sent to its API is not used to train AI models.
• Stripe — processes payment, only if you buy the pilot. We never see your card number.
• Supabase — stores your account, games, photos, reports, and the improvement profile (US servers, encrypted at rest).
• GitHub — the engine analysis runs on GitHub-hosted servers; game moves pass through during processing.
• Resend — delivers transactional email (report-ready notifications).
• Vercel — hosts the site.
• Cloudflare — cookieless site analytics: visit counts, no cookies, can't identify you.

Each is bound by their own privacy policy; we only send them what they need to do their job.

Cookies

A session cookie keeps you signed in. Analytics are cookieless. No tracking cookies, no advertising pixels.

Children's data

ChessIntel is purchased by a parent for their child. We don't market to or collect data directly from children. The kid's first name and games are submitted by you, the parent, and nothing about your kid is ever public.

Deleting it

Email info@chessintel.app and we'll delete your account, your games and photos, your reports, and your kid's improvement profile — no forms, no friction.

— The ChessIntel team