Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 2026

Purpose

The purpose of our privacy policy is to explain how we collect data from our users, when we collect data and for which purposes. This privacy policy applies to the products offered by Choue on its web and mobile applications.

Contact Information

When you use or subscribe to one of our services, such as creating an account on choue.net or, when available, purchasing a subscription, signing up to an email newsletter, entering a competition, joining an online community, we will ask you to provide limited information so that we can provide you with the services requested.

Online Identifiers

When you visit our website, we collect information about your web visit, such as how long you visited, what sites you visited or which pages you accessed.

How We Use Your Personal Information

At Choue we collect different types of information about people for three main reasons:

• To provide personalized services unique to individual users.
• To monitor and improve the services we offer.
• To market products and services which we think would be relevant to you.

We will not make the email you provided to Choue available to any third parties unless required by law. Your name will be displayed together with your username to other players in the same Chouette Session. Your username is not considered personal information.

Your Rights

As a consumer, you have rights when it comes to your data:

• The right to be informed. Whenever we collect your data we will inform you of why it is being collected and how it is being processed.
• The right of access. If you wish to see what information we hold on you, you may send us a "Subject Access" request. We will require photocopies of two pieces of identification from the email account that is linked to the account on Choue that you are requesting access to. We will respond within 30 days of receipt of your request. There is no cost to you in requesting to see your data, but please note that we reserve the right to charge you if you make subsequent requests. You can use the contact details below for a Subject Access Request.
• The right to rectification. We offer the opportunity to amend your personal information by contacting us using the details below.
• The right to erasure. You can delete your account yourself at any time: open your Profile and choose Delete account, on the web or in the apps. What the deletion removes and what it keeps is described below under Deleting Your Account. If you have used more than one account, delete each of them; if you cannot sign in to an account, contact us using the details below from the email address linked to it.

Deleting Your Account

Deleting your account takes effect immediately and signs you out on all devices. It cannot be undone. An account cannot be deleted while you are still playing in a game or a chouette session (running or suspended), or while a chouette you own has a running or scheduled session; finish, resign, leave or end those first.

When you delete your account, we delete:

• Your email address, password, real name, time zone, description, photo and avatar, and the link to a Google or Apple sign-in.
• Your preferences and settings, and your sign-ins on all devices.
• Your friends and friend requests, and your private messages, both those you sent and those you received.
• Your statistics (such as your performance rating), the ratings other players gave you, and your progress in lessons.
• Your position library (saved positions and variants with their notes) and your saved queries.
• Your open challenges and match searches.

We keep, without any personal information attached:

• Your username. Games are a shared record of everyone who played them, so past games and sessions keep showing your username, without a profile. The username cannot be registered again.
• The games and sessions you played, including their chats. A chat in a game or chouette session is part of that match, like its moves, and is preserved for the other players after your account is deleted.
• Your posts, comments and attachments in Discuss, shown under your username.
• Ratings you gave other players, which are part of their profiles.
• Your chouettes, archived: their sessions and history remain for everyone who played in them, but no new sessions can be started.

Copies of the deleted data that remain in our internal records and backups are removed within 30 days of the deletion.

When Will My Data Be Deleted

We will store your personal data as long as is necessary for the purposes named in this Privacy Policy, especially for the fulfillment of our contractual and legal obligations. We may also store your personal data for other purposes if or as long as the law allows us to store it for particular purposes, including for defence against legal claims.

Cookie Policy and Purpose

Choue uses cookies and similar technology to manage authentication and to collect and analyze information about the users of the service. We use this information to enhance the content, and for advertising and other services available on the site.

How Do We Use Cookies

We use cookies to enhance your browsing experience by:

• Recognising when you log in and any preferred settings.
• Giving you a browsing experience that is unique to you and to serve you content which we believe improves your site experience.
• Analyzing how you use our site which helps us to troubleshoot any problems and to monitor our own performance.

How Do You Change Cookie Preferences Or Block Cookies

Within your browser you can choose whether you wish to accept cookies or not. Different browsers make different controls available to you. Generally, your browser will offer you the choice to accept, refuse or delete cookies at all times, or those from providers that website owners use (i.e. third party cookies, or those from specific websites). Each browser's website should contain instructions on how you can do this. Choue needs first party cookies in order to authenticate users.