Privacy

In short

Terza Torre collects no personal data. It has no accounts, uses no analytics, advertising or tracking services, contains no third-party code that collects data, and sends nothing to the developer. Your games and everything you write in the app stay on your Mac.

The app connects to the internet only in three cases, explained below: for the subscription, with Apple; when you ask it to download games or studies from lichess.org or chess.com; and when you sign in to lichess.

Your games, on your Mac

The archive is only on your Mac, in the app’s folder, which macOS keeps separate from other apps. Inside are the games, yours and other people’s, with their annotations and analyses; your profile (name, FIDE ID, title, country, Elo, usernames); collections, studies, the repertoire, the opponents’ dossiers with your notes. The app’s preferences, like the appearance or the last choices made in the windows, are in the Mac’s preferences, in the same folder.

None of this is synced with iCloud or other services, and none of it reaches the developer. If you use Time Machine, the archive ends up in its backups like your other files. The archive is not encrypted by the app: macOS protects it, with the separation of apps and, if it is on, FileVault.

Some of the archive’s data concerns other people: the names of the players in the games, and the dossiers and notes you write about your opponents. They stay on your Mac like the rest, and are yours to keep with care.

When the app uses the internet

Apple, for the subscription

At every launch, and when you open the Terza Torre Pro window, the app asks StoreKit, Apple’s system for purchases, where your subscription stands; StoreKit asks Apple when it needs to. Purchases, the free trial, renewal and cancellation go through Apple, with your Apple Account: the developer receives neither your personal data nor your payment details. What Apple does with them is set out in its Privacy Policy.

lichess.org and chess.com, when you ask

Only when you download games or studies from a site does the app connect to that site, and to no other:

• lichess.org, with the player’s name or the study link you write;
• chess.com, with the player’s name you write.

The request contains the name searched for and the app’s name and version, and like any connection it shows the site your Mac’s IP address. It goes straight from your Mac to the site: the developer does not see it and receives nothing from it. The connections leave on the Mac no cookies, no credentials and no copies of the responses. What the sites do with the requests is set out in their policies: lichess.org and chess.com.

Signing in to lichess, if you choose to

Signing in to lichess is optional. Sign in… opens the lichess page, in a system window over the app, where you give permission: you type your password to lichess, and the app never sees it. lichess gives the app a permission that only allows it to read your studies; the app keeps it in your Mac’s Keychain, in the item “lichess.org (name)”, never in the archive or in the preferences.

Once signed in, the app sends that permission to lichess, and only to lichess, with every request: even when you download another player’s games, because that way lichess sends them faster. lichess therefore sees which account downloads whose games.

Sign out, in Settings or in the import window, removes the permission on lichess and deletes the item from the Keychain.

The pages you open

Help, Support, Privacy, the links in the licences window and Manage subscription open a page in your browser: it is the browser that connects, not the app.

Crash reports

If in the macOS settings you have chosen to share analytics with app developers, Apple may send the developer anonymous reports about the app’s crashes, to fix them. It is your choice, and it is changed in System Settings › Privacy & Security › Analytics & Improvements.

No data shared with third parties

Terza Torre does not sell, rent or share your data with anyone, because it does not receive it. The only connections are those above: to Apple, for the subscription, and to the sites you choose, with what you write to search.

Deleting everything

Everything the app keeps is on your Mac, and you delete it yourself, whenever you like:

1. If you are signed in to lichess, Sign out (Settings › Profile): it removes the permission on lichess and deletes the Keychain item.
2. Quit Terza Torre and move it to the Bin from the Applications folder.
3. Deleting the app does not delete its data: in the Finder choose Go › Go to Folder… (⇧⌘G), type ~/Library/Containers/dev.mirkoleardini.TerzaTorre and move that folder to the Bin. Inside are the archive, the profile, the notes and the preferences. Then empty the Bin.
4. Time Machine backups, if you have any, keep the archive until Time Machine deletes them, or until you delete them.

To delete only the games, without removing the app, there is File › Delete all games; the profile is emptied in Settings.

The site

This site uses no cookies, has no visitor statistics or advertising, and its fonts and images are on the site itself: opening a page contacts no other server.

It is published by Cloudflare, which, like any web server, receives the visitor’s IP address, browser and the page requested, to send it and to protect the site from abuse. Cloudflare handles this data on the developer’s behalf and according to its privacy policy; it may also handle it in the United States, with the safeguards of the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, under which it is certified, and of the European Union’s standard contractual clauses.

Support emails

If you write to support@terzatorre.app, the developer receives your email address, the name you write under and what you send, including attachments such as a PGN. They are used only to answer you and to follow up your request, and it is your request that allows it. They are not used for anything else, not added to lists and not given to anyone.

Support mail is hosted by Apple, on iCloud, which handles it on the developer’s behalf.

Emails are kept as long as they are needed to follow up the request, and at most for two years from the last message; then they are deleted. You can ask at any time for them to be deleted sooner.

Who the controller is

The controller of the data of the site and of the support emails is the developer of Terza Torre, Mirko Leardini. For any question about this page, and to exercise your rights: support@terzatorre.app.

Your rights

You can ask to see the personal data the developer has about you, that is your support emails, to correct it, to delete it, to restrict its use, to object to its use and to receive it in a readable format. Just write to support@terzatorre.app: the answer comes within a month.

If you think your data is being handled badly, you can turn to the Autorità Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, the data protection authority of the Republic of San Marino (Law no. 171 of 21 December 2018, art. 66), or to the data protection authority of the country where you live.

If this page changes

When the app or the site change the way they use data, this page changes with them, and the date at the foot says when it was last updated.