Chippy's DraughtsPrivacy Policy
Chippy's Draughts Learning App is made by Chippy Technologies Ltd. in Trinidad and Tobago. It is built for children, so it collects as little as possible: children type only a first name or a nickname. There are no accounts for children, no email addresses from children, no advertising, no ad tracking and nothing is sold.
In short
- The app works on the device. Progress is saved on the device, not on our servers.
- Information leaves the device only when someone uses an online feature: a coach's class, a game link, or the Coach Academy for adults. It also sends anonymous counts, which can be switched off.
- We never ask a child for an email address, a phone number, a photo, a location or a real full name.
- There are no ads, no in-app purchases and no third-party analytics or advertising tools in the app.
Who we are
Chippy Technologies Ltd., Trinidad and Tobago. Contact: ttdraughts@gmail.com. The course follows the School Draughts Programme of the Trinidad and Tobago Draughts and Checkers Association (TTDCA).
Information kept only on the device
The nickname, lesson progress, stars, badges, daily puzzle level, game records, settings and certificates are saved in the app's storage on the device. Several children can have their own player on a shared school tablet. This information stays on the device. It is removed with “Start over” in My progress, by clearing the app's data, or by uninstalling the app.
Coach classes (optional)
A coach with a club or school licence can create a class. A child joins by typing a six-letter class code and a nickname. Then the app sends to our online service:
- the nickname,
- lesson progress and scores, homework answers, class games and their moves, and certificate qualifications,
- a practice rating, only if the child chooses to share it,
- while the app is open, an “online now” signal about once a minute, so classmates can see who is available to play.
The coach and classmates see the nickname and these results. There is no chat. A child can leave the class at any time in the app (“Leave class”), which deletes the child's class record from our service. A coach can remove a child from the class, which deletes that record too. Invitations between classmates expire after 30 minutes.
Coaches register with their licence code and the name they want shown to their class.
Game links (optional)
A player can create a link to play one game with someone who opens it. The link sends only the nickname, the moves and the game settings, works once and expires after 30 minutes if no one joins. There is no chat.
Coach Academy (adults only)
Adults who take the Coach Academy exam give their full name, club or school, and optionally an email address. We store these with the exam answers and results, and use them only to run the exam and to issue and verify the certificate. To confirm certificates, we may share the name, club or school and result with the TTDCA or the national federation that issues the certificate jointly with us. Anyone with a certificate code can check the name, club and date at chippytechnologies.com/verify. The recovery key stays on the device; our service keeps only a fingerprint of it.
Anonymous counts
To know how many people use the app, it sends anonymous counts: a first open, a home-screen install and one “opened today” a day, with the country (worked out from the device's time zone), the language and the kind of device. If the app was opened through one of our social media links (chippytechnologies.com/yt, /tt, /ig or /fb), the first open also says which of the four it came from. For the daily puzzles it sends which puzzle was tried, whether it was solved first time and the player's puzzle rating rounded to the nearest 100, so each puzzle's difficulty can be measured. These counts contain no name, nickname or ID, and our database keeps only totals. Devices set to “Do Not Track” or “Global Privacy Control” send none of these counts.
Our service providers
- Supabase hosts the online service (classes, game links, Coach Academy, counts). Information is sent encrypted (HTTPS).
- Cloudflare hosts the website and the app files. On the website pages, not in the app, Cloudflare Web Analytics counts visits: the page opened, the country, the kind of browser and the page that linked to it. It uses no cookies and does not identify visitors.
- Google Fonts supplies the lettering on the website and in the app.
Like any website host, these providers keep standard access logs, including IP addresses, for a short time for security and operation. We do not use them to identify anyone.
Children
The app is designed for children and follows the principle of collecting as little as possible. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children beyond a nickname, and we ask children not to use their full name. Parents and guardians can ask us at any time what is held about their child in a class and have it deleted: email ttdraughts@gmail.com with the class code and nickname, or ask the child's coach.
Donations
The app has a “Support Chippy” section for adults, placed behind a multiplication question (a two-digit number times a one-digit number) that a young child is unlikely to answer. Donations go to the Trinidad and Tobago Draughts and Checkers Administration Foundation. The app does not take any payment itself.
How long we keep information
- Class records: until the child leaves the class or the coach removes the child.
- Game links: an unused link expires after 30 minutes; old links are removed automatically after a few days.
- Coach Academy records: while the certificate is valid, so it can be verified, or until you ask us to delete them.
- Anonymous counts: kept as daily totals.
Your choices and deleting information
You can delete everything on the device with “Start over” or by uninstalling the app. To delete class or Coach Academy information held on our service, use “Leave class” in the app or email ttdraughts@gmail.com. We will reply within 30 days.
Deleting a Coach Academy record or a coach's class data: email ttdraughts@gmail.com with the subject “Delete my data”, and give the name and club used in the Coach Academy, or the class code. We delete the record, the exam answers and results, and confirm by email. A certificate that has been deleted can no longer be verified at chippytechnologies.com/verify.
Security
All information sent by the app travels over encrypted connections. Our service accepts only the specific actions the app needs, and children's class records are reached only through a private token stored on the child's device.
Changes
If we change this policy, we will update this page and the date at the top.