Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect personal data when you visit the Chess Dopamine website, contact us, or purchase our digital products.

Purchases and digital delivery are handled through Gumroad. Gumroad may process personal data under its own privacy policy and terms.

2. Data Controller

Data controller: Rafał Piątkowski

Country: Poland

Email: contact@chessdopamine.com

3. Personal Data We May Collect

3.1 Information you provide

• Your name and email address.
• Information included in messages you send to us.
• Order information needed to provide support, verify a purchase, or handle a refund request.

3.2 Purchase and payment information

Gumroad processes checkout, payments, applicable taxes, receipts, and digital product delivery. We may receive limited order information from Gumroad, such as your name, email address, purchased product, transaction date, and order status.

We do not directly receive or store your complete payment-card details.

3.3 Technical information

Our hosting provider and website systems may process limited technical data needed to operate and secure the website, such as IP address, browser information, device information, access time, requested pages, and security logs.

4. How We Collect Personal Data

We may collect personal data when you:

• Visit or interact with our website.
• Purchase a digital product through Gumroad.
• Contact us by email.
• Ask for customer support or request a refund.

5. Purposes and Legal Bases

We may process personal data for the following purposes:

• To perform a contract: to confirm purchases, provide access to products, and provide customer support.
• To comply with legal obligations: including accounting, tax, consumer-protection, and record-keeping requirements.
• For legitimate interests: to secure the website, prevent fraud and abuse, respond to inquiries, and establish or defend legal claims.
• With consent where required: for any optional technology or communication that legally requires consent.

6. Service Providers and Recipients

Personal data may be processed by:

• Gumroad: checkout, payment processing, merchant-of-record services, tax handling, receipts, order administration, and digital delivery.
• OVHcloud: website hosting, infrastructure, and related technical services.
• Professional advisers or public authorities: where reasonably necessary or legally required.

These providers may process data according to their own terms and privacy notices.

7. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Our website may use essential browser storage or similar technologies that are necessary for basic operation, security, and remembering a visitor's cookie-notice choice. Essential technologies do not require consent where they are strictly necessary under applicable law.

When you follow a link to Gumroad or use Gumroad's checkout, Gumroad may use cookies and similar technologies on its own pages. Gumroad controls those technologies under its own privacy and cookie practices.

You can manage cookies through your browser settings. Blocking essential technologies may cause parts of the website or checkout process to work incorrectly.

We do not intentionally use non-essential advertising or analytics cookies on this website unless we provide an appropriate notice and obtain consent where required.

8. International Data Transfers

Some service providers may process personal data outside Poland or the European Economic Area. Where required, transfers are protected by an applicable legal mechanism, such as an adequacy decision or Standard Contractual Clauses.

9. Data Retention

We retain personal data only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Policy, including providing support, maintaining business and transaction records, complying with legal obligations, resolving disputes, and preventing fraud.

Retention periods may differ depending on the type of data and the applicable accounting, tax, consumer-protection, or limitation-period requirements.

10. Your Data-Protection Rights

Subject to applicable law, you may have the right to:

• Request access to your personal data.
• Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.
• Request deletion of personal data.
• Request restriction of processing.
• Object to processing based on legitimate interests.
• Request data portability where applicable.
• Withdraw consent at any time where processing is based on consent.
• Lodge a complaint with a competent data-protection authority.

To exercise rights relating to data controlled by us, email contact@chessdopamine.com. Gumroad may need to handle requests concerning data it controls directly.

11. Complaints

You may lodge a complaint with the President of the Personal Data Protection Office in Poland:

Personal Data Protection Office (UODO)
ul. Stanisława Moniuszki 1A
00-014 Warsaw, Poland
uodo.gov.pl

12. Security

We use reasonable technical and organisational measures designed to protect personal data. However, no website, transmission method, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

13. Children's Privacy

Our products and website are not intentionally directed to children below the age at which they may independently consent to data processing under applicable law. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children in violation of applicable law.

14. External Links

Our website may link to third-party websites, including Gumroad. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of third-party websites.

15. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when our practices, services, or legal obligations change. The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised “Last updated” date.

16. Contact

Questions about this Privacy Policy may be sent to contact@chessdopamine.com.