Privacy policy
ChessMons is made for children, so we collect as little as possible. This policy explains what information the ChessMons app and the website chessmons.com handle, why, and the rights you have. If anything is unclear, email us at chessmons@ormsaltaren.com.
1. Who is responsible
ChessMons is made by Ormsaltaren Music AB ("Ormsaltaren", "we", "us"), which is the data controller for the information described here.
Contact: chessmons@ormsaltaren.com
Post: Ormsaltaren Music AB, Emelies gata 27, 116 50 Stockholm, Sweden
2. The short version
- No ads, no third-party analytics and no tracking across apps or websites.
- Children never type their name, email or any other personal details, and there is no chat.
- You don't need an account. Profiles, progress and settings are stored on your own device.
- Payments are handled by Apple or Google. We never see your card details.
- We do not sell personal data.
3. What the app handles
Profiles, progress and settings. Player profiles (a name or character chosen from a list and an age range), progress through the worlds, earned coins and accessories, and parent settings are stored on the device the app is installed on. They are not sent to us. In the browser version they are stored in your browser. Deleting the app, or clearing the browser's site data, removes them.
Family Pass purchases. If you buy the Family Pass, the purchase is made through the App Store or Google Play and handled under their terms and privacy policies. We use RevenueCat, a subscription service, to check whether a Family Pass is active. RevenueCat receives a random app identifier and purchase details from the store (such as the product, price, dates and renewal status). It does not receive your name, email or card details, and nothing about your child's play.
Reports and support emails. Grown-ups can report a problem with a puzzle or lesson from behind the grown-up gate. This opens your own email app with the content's number, the board position, the moves played, the app version and your comment, and you decide whether to send it. If you email us, we receive your email address and what you write. We use it only to answer you and fix the problem, and we delete it when it's no longer needed for that.
What we don't collect. No location, contacts, photos, camera or microphone access, no advertising identifiers and no device fingerprinting.
Test versions. In test versions shared with invited testers (not the version in the App Store or Google Play), the app may send crash reports to Sentry, stored in the EU, with identifying details removed.
4. What the website handles
chessmons.com uses no cookies, no analytics and no tracking tools, and never asks for personal information. Fonts, images, music and animations come from our own site. The site is hosted by Cloudflare, which processes technical information such as IP addresses to deliver pages and protect the site from attacks, and for no other purpose.
5. Why we use information (legal basis)
- To provide the service you asked for (contract): checking and restoring the Family Pass, answering support emails.
- Legitimate interests: keeping the website secure and fixing reported problems in our content.
- Legal obligations: keeping records required for accounting and tax.
6. Who we share information with
We do not sell personal data and we do not share it for advertising. We use a small number of service providers who process data on our behalf and only on our instructions: Apple and Google (app stores and payments), RevenueCat (subscription status) and Cloudflare (website hosting). We may also disclose information if the law requires it. Some providers are based outside the EU/EEA; when data is transferred there, we rely on safeguards approved by the EU, such as Standard Contractual Clauses.
7. How long we keep information
Data stored on your device stays there until you delete it. Support emails and reports are kept only as long as needed to handle them. Purchase records are kept as long as accounting law requires.
8. Children
ChessMons is designed for children aged 3 to 12 and is built so that it does not need personal information from them. Purchases, settings and links out of the app sit behind a grown-up gate. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has sent us personal information, contact us and we will delete it.
If we ever add features that need personal information, such as accounts to save progress across devices, we will update this policy first and ask for a parent's consent where the law requires it.
9. Your rights
Under the GDPR you have the right to access, correct or delete your personal data, to restrict or object to its processing, to data portability, and to withdraw consent at any time. Because most ChessMons data stays on your device, you can delete it yourself by deleting the app. For anything we hold, email chessmons@ormsaltaren.com.
If you are unhappy with how we handle your data, you can complain to your local data protection authority. In Sweden this is Integritetsskyddsmyndigheten (IMY), Box 8114, 104 20 Stockholm, www.imy.se.
10. California residents
Under the CCPA/CPRA you have the right to know what personal information we collect, to access, correct and delete it, and to opt out of its sale or sharing. We do not sell or share personal information for advertising. To use these rights, email chessmons@ormsaltaren.com.
11. Security
We use technical and organisational measures to protect information, and we keep the amount we handle to a minimum. No system is completely secure.
12. Changes
If we make important changes to this policy, we will tell you in the app or on this website and update the date above.
13. Contact
Email: chessmons@ormsaltaren.com
Post: Ormsaltaren Music AB, Emelies gata 27, 116 50 Stockholm, Sweden
See also our terms of use.