Geek Chess online terms and community rules
Geek Chess is provided by Appdevelz UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Waldstraße 7a, 82319 Starnberg, Germany. Questions about online play, these rules or a moderation decision: helpdesk@srogersdevelopment.com. Our privacy policy is at https://playgeekchess.com/privacy.
Online accounts
Online play is optional. You can play the offline modes without creating an online account. For the first closed test, online accounts are intended for invited adults aged 18 or older whose ordinary residence is Germany, following Samuel’s private review of personally known adults. Online admission for 16–17-year-olds remains deferred. Choosing an age band alone does not authorize an account or messages. Keep your password private and use an email address you control. Do not impersonate another person or Appdevelz, share accounts to evade a restriction, or use another person's account without permission.
For this first closed test, participation follows deliberate acceptance of the identified terms version while signed in. Acceptance does not by itself qualify an account or grant permission to choose a profile name or send messages; those permissions are checked separately. If you decline, or do not accept a later version, safety reports, requests for review, privacy rights and account deletion remain available through the applicable support and account routes.
Choose a username that follows the community rules. Other players can see your username and online game information described in our privacy policy. Do not put contact details or other sensitive personal information in a username or message.
Community rules
These rules cover usernames, direct messages, lobby messages and report notes. Do not submit or encourage:
- Threats, harassment, bullying, targeted humiliation, hate speech or discriminatory abuse.
- Sexual content, sexual solicitation, or content that exploits or endangers children.
- Another person's private information, unwanted contact, impersonation, scams or attempts to obtain passwords.
- Spam, malicious links, illegal activity, or content you do not have the right to share.
- Cheating, exploiting the service, interfering with other players' games, or deliberately false reports.
Compete fairly and respect players who decline contact or block you. Use reports to explain the problem; do not repeat abusive content unnecessarily or include unrelated personal information.
Reporting, blocking and moderation
Use REPORT in a player's · · · menu to report their username or behavior. Choose a reason and, if useful, add a short note. The report can include recent messages from the relevant shared conversation as evidence. ALSO BLOCK lets you block the player when sending the report. BLOCK is also available separately in player menus. Lobby MUTE CHAT hides messages locally; use BLOCK to stop contact from that account.
If you cannot use the in-app report path, contact helpdesk@srogersdevelopment.com. Never send a password or sign-in token. A report receipt confirms receipt; it does not mean a moderator has already reviewed the report.
Appdevelz reviews reports and takes proportionate action against prohibited content or behavior, which may include removing content, requiring a username change or restricting online access. We do not promise that every message is reviewed before other players see it. For the first closed test, Samuel reviews reports and checks the testing helpdesk daily. This is not an emergency service or a guarantee of a particular response time or result. Contact helpdesk@srogersdevelopment.com to ask for review of a moderation decision; the same reviewer, Samuel, handles requests to reconsider a decision.
You allow us to store and deliver the content you submit to the intended recipients and to review narrowly necessary evidence when investigating abuse, as described in the privacy policy. This permission is limited to operating and protecting the service; it does not give us ownership of your content. Our privacy policy separately explains the purposes and handling of personal data and your privacy rights.
Ordinary direct-message content is available for 30 days from its original server creation, lobby-message content for 7 days, and completed match/recent-opponent history for 30 days from match completion, unless the applicable deletion rules remove it earlier. Reads, retries or copies do not restart those periods. Ratings remain until account deletion. Separate report evidence, deletion guards and provider copies follow the privacy policy; these availability cutoffs are not a promise of immediate physical removal from every provider system.
Deleting an online account
Request deletion through the game's account-deletion path or https://playgeekchess.com/delete-account. The web route also works if you have uninstalled the game. Uninstalling the game by itself does not delete an online account.
Deletion ends any active online match once as a resignation, with the match's existing result and rating rules. It removes the account, associated profile and social data, direct conversations in both directions, and lobby messages sent by that account. The username becomes available for reuse. Only opponents' own results and statistics may remain, with the former player shown as Deleted player and without that player's account ID, username or email. A replay is removed if it cannot safely meet that rule.
Narrowly necessary moderation evidence may remain under restricted access for up to 30 days from the report's creation. Deleting an account or closing a report does not restart that period. A minimal pseudonymous deletion guard and operation state prevent old sessions or late requests from recreating deleted data; they are not anonymous and have a separate retention policy. For the first closed test, the minimal completed guard has no automatic expiry and its necessity is reviewed afterwards. Pending recovery remains until resolved. Our privacy policy explains the handling of provider logs and backups. We confirm when the required deletion is complete; a pending request is not a completion confirmation.
Service and terms changes
The closed test may have bugs, downtime or changes to the game. Send technical feedback to helpdesk@srogersdevelopment.com without passwords or unnecessary personal information. We will identify the terms version you accept and explain material community-rule changes before asking you to accept a new version for further content submissions.