Ranges Chess Club is committed to protecting your online privacy while providing you with the most useful and enjoyable online experience possible. While you can use many features of Ranges Chess Club anonymously, you are required to provide personal information when you become a member of Ranges Chess Club or when entering chess tournaments conducted by Ranges Chess Club.

When you become a member of Ranges Chess Club the information we request is your name, date of birth, sex, postal address, e-mail address, phone number(s) and information relating to any medical condition.

With your consent, we occasionally may send an e-mail or postal mail to notify you about important changes to the Ranges web site or the chess event web site, new services, and upcoming events. If you would rather not receive e-mail notifications or postal mail, you can simply indicate that preference either when joining as a member or at any time when you notify us.

If you enter a chess event run by Ranges Chess Club, the information we request can include your name, date of birth, sex, postal address, e-mail address, contact phone number(s), and for entrants under the age of 18 can also include the school you attend.

With your consent, or the consent of your parent or guardian, or as otherwise provided for by applicable law, if you are under the age of 18, we may publish the name, age group, and photographs of members and others that attend Ranges Chess Club events on the Ranges web site, the chess event web site, or in newsletters promoting upcoming or previously conducted chess club events run by Ranges Chess Club.

All personal information you provide to Ranges Chess Club as a Ranges Chess Club member is held securely with the Ranges Chess Club Secretary. The Secretary keeps and maintains a register of members containing (a) the name and address of each member; and (b) the date on which each member's name was entered in the register. Any member can access their personal information and the register of members through the Ranges Chess Club upon reasonable notice.

All personal information you provide when entering in a chess event organised by Ranges Chess Club is held securely with the Director of Play for that event. The Director of Play keeps and maintains a register of entrants containing (a) the name and email address of each entrant; and (b) the date on which each entrant’s name was entered in the register. Any entrant can access their personal information through the Ranges Chess Club upon reasonable notice.

As you probably know, "cookies" are small pieces of information that some Web sites store on your computer's hard drive when you visit them. This web site uses cookies to identify when you visit the web site. However, you can access all of the features on our site by anonymously visiting the web site address.

While Ranges Chess Club does not provide any third-party access to your personal information, we may provide third parties such as Chess Victoria, chess bulletin boards and media outlets with information relating to Ranges Chess club events, results and activities that may include your name, your age group, your chess game results and tournament results.

With your consent, or the consent of your parent or guardian, or as otherwise provided for by applicable law, if you are under the age of 18, we may provide photographs of members and others that attend Ranges chess club events to third parties such as Chess Victoria, chess bulletin boards and media outlets.

Your name, date of birth, sex and chess game results may be provided to Chess Victoria for the purpose of rating chess games.

By using this Web site, you give Ranges Chess Club permission to collect information about the pages served to you as an anonymous user for the purpose of calculating aggregate site statistics. If you are a member of Ranges Chess Club, you authorise Ranges Chess Club to use information you provide to personalise the information we deliver to you and to use your demographic information when calculating aggregate customer data.

If you are under the age of 18, you must not provide your name, e-mail address, or any other identifying information without the consent of your parent or guardian, or as otherwise provided for by applicable law.

Any changes to our privacy policy will be posted on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.

Ranges Chess Club welcomes your questions and comments about our privacy policy. Please send e-mail  To Privacy