How can I opt out of chess dot come gathering and using data they have collected?

LOL whistle while you work, tra la la la la la

Spybook fined a mere £500,000 because of the timing, had it breached GDPR it was facing a much heftier fine

In the first quarter of 2018, Facebook took £500,000 in revenue every five and a half minutes. Because of the timing of the breaches, the ICO said it was unable to levy the penalties introduced by the European General Data Protection (GDPR), which caps fines at the higher level of €20m (£17m) or 4% of global turnover – in Facebook’s case, $1.9bn (£1.4bn). The £500,000 cap was set by the Data Protection Act 1998.

Lets hope chess dot com can afford 4% of its global turnover otherwise Naka might have to get his pocket money from somewhere else.

LOL

Maybe you can't find it because you opted out and cleared data!  LOL!

Nice thread rob69, appreciate the info and not just on cc. 

They (and all free sites) collect data and use at their will. Only thing to do is submit or remove ourselves from the equation.  Problem is they have a great product, same old story. Good luck. 

At least they have allowed the thread to remain.

this used to be the case but its being tested in Europe and sites can now no longer gather and store personal information from a European without their explicit consent, furthermore you cannot deny a service if a user objects to certain types of information being stored and gathered that are unnecessary for the functioning of the website because doing so does not represent a choice. 

All that chess dot com has to do is what the BBC did, offer a choice of what is gathered and make it clear that there are some forms of data that are absolutely necessary, others that are less necessary but provide functionality an others that are purely for targeted advertising. If you use something like Umatrix you can block anything you like but that is besides the point.

or it could be that I am usually 'away with the fairies.'

I don’t think it transgresses any of the terms of service otherwise Dave the Mod would have quashed it with his iron fist at the first sniff of mentioning a Saint or some political personage.

Hey guys. Lee here. I'm Chess.com's COO and I function as the Data Protection Officer for GDPR. And I wrote our new GDPR-compliant privacy policy. https://www.chess.com/legal#privacypolicy 

We describe there in detail the data we collect, how we use it and the legal justification under the GDPR for using or keeping certain data. Definitely email me personally, lee@chess.com, if something seems unclear.

We've processed ~200 requests to be forgotten under GDPR Article 17 since GDPR went live. So we can certainly forget you, delete your data, etc. But we keep the games you played in our database...those are considered public record. Also, in some cases (like those who've violated fair play or abuse policies) we keep IP addresses so that we can identify cheaters or abusers who try to comeback or open different accounts from the same IP address.

Just FYI...IP address by itself isn't considered PII under most frameworks. You have to IP address with another identifier, like email or name.

Regardless, we aim to please and I'm happy to field any GDPR questions.  If you know you want to have all your data removed and be forgotten, you can go here and support will take care of you. https://support.chess.com/customer/portal/emails/new 

Ok, you keep my games... but please don't disclose them for God's sake.

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Data Protection Officer....??    Please tell the F.B.I. I have NEVER visited this site.   I would feel safer if THIS was your avatar.                                                                                                                                                       

RonaldJosephCote...too late. We already turned over your whole opening repertoire to the FBI, CIA, and USCF. Time to take up the King's Gambit... 

I see what you did there....Data. Good one!

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Although I comprehend next to none of this it makes me feel no better. Why don't y'all just delete all the cache daily and start a gnu? 

Oh gawd we got a sympathizer here!!!