Cookies Policy

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your device (computer, tablet, or mobile phone) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently, improve page load times, remember your preferences, and provide analytics data to site owners.

Cookies do not contain personal identifier details like your real name, physical address, or credit card info. They simply store configuration preferences and session tokens.

2. How We Use Cookies

We use cookies to enhance your experience in several ways:

• Session Memory: Remembering your chosen board style, piece theme, and engine difficulty settings so you do not have to reconfigure them on every visit.
• Analysis & Preferences: Keeping track of recently solved chess puzzles and game history records.
• Site Performance: Optimization cookies that load assets faster from cached networks.
• SEO & Analytics: Anonymous traffic analysis to help us understand which chess guides and articles are most popular.

3. Types of Cookies We Use

We classify our cookies into the following categories:

1. Essential Cookies: These cookies are critical to run the core features of the site (like the interactive chessboard, move calculations, and board settings). Without these, the site cannot function correctly.
2. Preference Cookies: These remember your preferred settings (e.g. board coordinate labels, sound effects, dark theme selections) to deliver a personalized chess experience.
3. Analytics Cookies: These gather anonymous usage metrics to track visitor counts and page loading times, helping us debug website errors and enhance content depth.

4. Managing and Controlling Cookies

You have full control over cookie permissions on your device. Most web browsers allow you to modify cookie preferences through their settings panel:

• You can choose to block all cookies, but please note that key interactive features of Float Chess (such as chessboard theme cycling, ELO history tracking, and settings preferences) may stop working.
• You can clear cookies regularly from your browser cache to delete any saved session history.
• You can configure private browsing mode (Incognito) which automatically deletes all session cookies once you close the browser.

5. Third-Party Cookies

In some cases, we link to external platforms or load trusted libraries (such as Google Analytics for site metrics, or CDNs like jQuery and Chessboard.js). These third parties may set their own cookies to monitor request loads and optimize script speeds. Float Chess does not have direct access or control over these third-party cookies.

6. Changes to This Cookies Policy

We may update this policy periodically to reflect changes in compliance regulations or website modifications. We encourage you to review this page regularly to stay informed about our cookie practices.

7. Contact Information

If you have any questions or feedback regarding this Cookies Policy, please reach out to us at floatchess.com@gmail.com.