Privacy Policy

Who we are

The website address is: https://www.keatonkiewrachessacademy.com.

This page last updated: 06/28/2026

This Privacy Policy describes our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of your information and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

By using our website, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

 

CCPA Privacy - Your Rights under the CCPA

Please note that Keaton Kiewra Chess Academy, or its website, www.KeatonKiewraChessAcademy.com, do not currently fall under any requirements to adhere to CCPA policy (we do not meet minimum sales revenue or other thresholds). However, we have chosen to follow best practices and guidelines under the California Consumer Protection Act (which went into effect 1/1/2020) and be compliant as part of our goal to do business as transparently and professionally as possible.

Under this Privacy Policy, and by law if you are a resident of California, You have the following rights:

  • The right to notice. You must be properly notified which categories of personal data are being collected and the purposes for which the data is being used.
  • The right to access / the right to request. The CCPA permits you to request and obtain from us any of your personal data that has been collected in the past 12 months by the website for direct marketing purposes.
  • The right to say no to the sale of Personal Data. You also have the right to ask us not to sell your Personal Data to third parties. NOTE: We do not sell your data to any entity or service.
  • The right to know about Your Personal Data. You have the right to request and obtain from us any information regarding the disclosure of the following:
    • The categories of Personal Data collected
    • The sources from which the Personal Data was collected
    • The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling the Personal Data
    • Categories of third parties with whom we share Personal Data
    • The specific pieces of Personal Data we collected about you
  • The right to delete Personal Data. You also have the right to request the deletion of Your Personal Data that have been collected in the past 12 months.
  • The right not to be discriminated against. You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of Your Consumer's rights, including by:
    • Denying goods or services to you
    • Charging different prices or rates for goods or services, including the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties
    • Providing a different level or quality of goods or services to you
    • Suggesting that you will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

Exercising Your CCPA Data Protection Rights

In order to exercise any of your rights under the CCPA, and if you are a California resident, you can email or call us with your request. We will disclose and deliver the required information free of charge within 45 days of receiving your verifiable request. The time period to provide the required information may be extended once by an additional 45 days when reasonably necessary and with prior notice.

"Do Not Track" Policy as Required by California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA)

Our Service does not respond to Do Not Track signals.

However, some third-party websites do keep track of your browsing activities. If you are visiting such websites, you can set your preferences in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked. You can enable or disable DNT by visiting the preferences or settings page of your web browser.

Cookies

WordPress, the framework this website is designed on, innately uses cookies to make the user experience better; however it does not collect any personally-identifiable information.

Contact forms

Our contact form(s) collects your name, email and other personally identifiable information. This information is stored in our mail submissions folder on a secure server. This website and its files are encrypted using SSL technology.

Embedded content from other websites

Our website may include embedded content (e.g. links, videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

We use Google Analytics, but it does not collect or retain personally identifiable information. It tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising network. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

How long we retain your data

Form submissions are retained either indefinitely or may be manually deleted as decided or necessary by the website owner. Google Analytics retains information for 14 months.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. As mentioned, information is gathered via Google Analytics.

Comments

If applicable, when visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture (if used) is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

 

Contact Information

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