Pawn’d Chess
Pawn’d Chess Privacy Policy
Pawn’d Chess is a chess game you play on your own device. It does not need an account with Normal Man Labs, and it does not include analytics, advertising, or tracking.
Information We Collect
For normal play, Pawn’d Chess does not collect your name, email address, location, contacts, advertising identifiers, or other personal information. Nothing is sent to Normal Man Labs unless you choose to send a bug report.
We do not sell or rent personal information.
Your Game Data
Your settings, local rating, saved positions, favorites, and game history are stored on your device. If Steam Cloud is turned on, Steam may sync your save data between your devices.
CPU Opponents and Narration
The Maia CPU opponents run on your device. Your moves and positions are not sent to Normal Man Labs or anyone else to choose the CPU’s reply.
Narration uses the text-to-speech voices built into your device’s operating system, or on Linux and SteamOS, an English voice included with the game. Either way, speech is generated on your device.
Bug Reports
If you open Report a problem from the pause menu and select Submit report, Pawn’d Chess sends:
- your note (up to 500 characters)
- the current game: mode, CPU level, moves, and positions
- recent errors and warnings from the game
- your operating system and version, language and region setting, and game version
- CPU, GPU, memory, display, and visual settings
- connected controller names and your current input bindings
Reports do not include your Steam ID or account name, device serial numbers, or your computer’s name. Before a report is sent, the game removes IP addresses and your user-folder name from error text. Please leave personal information out of your note.
Nothing is sent automatically, and there are no automatic crash uploads.
Builds that use the Cloudflare report relay send reports over HTTPS to reports.normalmanlabs.com. Cloudflare processes the report and uses your IP address to handle the connection and limit abuse. Reports are delivered by email and kept in our support inbox. We do not add your IP address or request headers to reports or write report contents to server logs.
Builds released before this change send reports over HTTPS through Tailscale. Tailscale handles the network connection. Our legacy report server does not add IP addresses or request headers to reports and does not keep access logs.
Reports are used only to find and fix problems in Pawn’d Chess.
Steam
Pawn’d Chess is sold and delivered through Steam. Purchases, achievements, stats, Steam Cloud, Remote Play Together, and Family Sharing are handled by Valve under the Steam Privacy Policy. Pawn’d Chess does not receive your payment details.
This Website
normalmanlabs.com does not use analytics, advertising, or tracking cookies. The site is hosted by Cloudflare, which processes visitors’ IP addresses to deliver and protect the site.
Fonts are hosted on normalmanlabs.com itself. Trailers are embedded from YouTube in privacy-enhanced mode, so Google receives your IP address when a page with a trailer loads. Links to Steam, YouTube, and Discord are covered by those services’ own privacy policies.
Data Retention and Deletion
Game data on your device stays there until you delete it or uninstall the game. Copies in Steam Cloud are managed by Steam.
Bug reports are kept only as long as they are useful for fixing problems. To have a report deleted, email us with the report ID the game shows after sending (“Report sent · …”).
If you contact support by email, what you send may be kept as long as needed to respond to you or meet legal obligations. You can ask us to delete it at any time.
Children’s Privacy
Pawn’d Chess does not knowingly collect personal information from children. The game has no accounts, and we do not keep profiles of players.
Security
We take reasonable measures to protect information sent to us. However, no electronic transmission or storage method can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
This policy may be updated as Pawn’d Chess changes. If the game adds online features, analytics, or other data collection, this policy will be updated to describe them.
Contact
For privacy questions or requests about information you have sent us, email support@normalmanlabs.com or visit the Pawn’d Chess support page.