Kami Chess privacy policy

Without an account, nothing. You can play a friend or the computer without an account, and Kami Chess then sends nothing anywhere: not to us and not to anyone else. No version contains analytics, advertising or crash reporting.

Version 1.6.2 lets you sign in to a Kami Chess account to play other players online. Only then does it connect to the internet, and only to us:

• to sign you in: Log in and Create account open our sign-in page, auth.kamidesigns.be, in your browser (on Android, over the game). You type your email address and password there, never into the game;
• while you are signed in: to tell our server about every 30 seconds that you are playing, to show you the other players and your results against them, and to send and fetch your challenges and the moves of your online games;
• when you report a player: to send us the report, which holds the player you report, the reason you chose and, if you add them, a short text and the game it is about;
• when you choose Delete account: to open our sign-in page, where you confirm, and then to ask our sign-in service to delete your account.

What our server keeps about your account, your online games and your sign-ins, and what other players see, is described in the privacy policy for Kami Chess accounts, at kami-chess.kamidesigns.be/privacy.

Version 1.5.0, in the App Store and on Google Play, has no account and no code that connects to the internet.

On Android, version 1.6.2 asks for one permission, access to the internet; version 1.5.0 asks for none.

On iPhone and iPad it asks for no permissions.

Kami Chess saves no game you play on your device, no settings and no scores: when you close it, a game with a friend or the computer is gone. An online game is kept by our server, not on your device, and is there again when you sign in.

When you sign in, version 1.6.2 keeps your sign-in on your device, so that you stay signed in the next time you start it: a code our sign-in service gave it, which is not your password, and your display name. Signing out removes both from your device and tells our sign-in service to cancel the code. They are kept:

• on Linux, in the file ~/.config/kami-chess/account, which only your user can read;
• on Windows, in the file %LOCALAPPDATA%\Kami Chess\account.dat, encrypted so that only your Windows account can read it;
• on macOS, in your login keychain;
• on Android, inside the app, encrypted with a key Android keeps for it, and never in a backup.

Apart from that:

• on Android, iPhone and iPad it writes no other files;
• on macOS, Windows and Linux it writes a file only when you start it from a command line with an option that asks for one, such as a screenshot saved where you tell it to.

On iPhone and iPad, Kami Chess looks up the size of the files it was installed with, such as the board and the pieces, before it reads them. Apple counts this as reading file dates. It does this only for its own files, never for another app's, and what it reads goes nowhere.

While it runs it can print messages about the game in progress, and about signing in and online play, to your device's own log or terminal. They stay on your device, and never hold your password or your sign-in code.

Questions about this policy can be sent by post to:

Enterprise number 0776.578.238 (Crossroads Bank for Enterprises, Belgium).