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Terms of Use

Effective Date: June 11, 2026

Website: chesscoachcharles.com

Contact Email: charles@chesscoachcharles.com

Table of Contents

1. Agreement to These Terms
2. About This Website
3. Family-Friendly and Respectful Community Standard
4. Adult Use Only for Posting
5. Rules for Posting About Minors
6. User Accounts
7. Listings and User Content
8. Public Listings
9. Comments, Messaging, and Contact Between Users
10. Prohibited Content
11. No Endorsement of Listings or Users
12. Moderation and Removal
13. User Deletion and Expiration of Listings
14. Intellectual Property
15. Third-Party Services and Links
16. No Professional, Legal, Financial, or Safety Advice
17. No Warranty
18. Limitation of Liability
19. Indemnification
20. Changes to These Terms
21. Governing Law
22. Contact

1. Agreement to These Terms

Welcome to Chess Coach Charles.

These Terms of Use explain the rules for using chesscoachcharles.com.

By visiting the website, creating an account, submitting a listing, posting a comment, sending a message, or otherwise using the website, you agree to these Terms of Use and acknowledge our Privacy Policy.

If you do not agree, do not use the website.

2. About This Website

Chess Coach Charles is a free chess-related community website and classified directory.

The website may include listings, comments, messaging, contact features, maps, embedded videos, articles, or other community features.

Guests may view listings. Users must create an account to post listings or use certain interactive features.

The website does not currently process payments.

3. Family-Friendly and Respectful Community Standard

Chess Coach Charles is intended for a general audience of chess players, parents, coaches, organizers, clubs, and fans.

The website is not directed to children, but chess is enjoyed by people of all ages. For that reason, all listings, comments, messages, profiles, and other user-submitted content must remain kid-friendly, respectful, and appropriate for a broad community audience.

Chess is a common denominator across many cultures and backgrounds. This community should respect that.

Users are expected to treat others with courtesy and respect regardless of age, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, culture, language, gender, disability, chess rating, playing strength, club affiliation, or background.

Disagreements about chess are welcome. Personal attacks are not. Keep it civil. Even when someone blunders a queen.

4. Adult Use Only for Posting

You must be at least 18 years old to create an account, submit a listing, post comments, send messages, or use interactive features.

Children may not create accounts, submit listings, post comments, send messages, or provide personal information directly through the website.

Parents or legal guardians may post appropriate chess-related information about their own children if they have the legal right to do so and comply with these Terms.

5. Rules for Posting About Minors

Users may not post personal information about a minor unless they are the child’s parent or legal guardian and have the legal right to share that information.

Users should not post photos of minors in public listings, comments, profiles, or other public areas of the website.

Users may not post unnecessary identifying information about minors, including full names, school names, home addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, schedules, or other sensitive details.

We may remove content involving minors at our discretion.

6. User Accounts

Users are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of their account login information.

Users are responsible for all activity under their account.

You agree to provide accurate information and to keep your account information current.

You may not create an account using another person’s identity or misrepresent who you are.

7. Listings and User Content

Users are responsible for all listings, comments, messages, images, links, and other content they submit.

By submitting content, you confirm that:

• The content is accurate to the best of your knowledge.
• You have the right to post it.
• The content does not violate the rights of another person.
• The content does not violate these Terms.
• The content is appropriate for a kid-friendly, family-friendly chess community website.

8. Public Listings

Listings are public.

Do not post private, sensitive, confidential, or unnecessary personal information.

Users are responsible for deciding what information to share publicly.

If you post contact information, location information, photos, names, schedules, or other details, you understand that other visitors may be able to view that information.

9. Comments, Messaging, and Contact Between Users

The website may allow users to comment, send private messages, reply to listings, or otherwise contact each other.

Users are responsible for their own communications and interactions.

Do not use the website to harass, threaten, spam, scam, mislead, pressure, or abuse other users.

We do not guarantee the identity, background, qualifications, safety, honesty, or reliability of any user.

Users should use caution when contacting or meeting anyone they find through the website.

10. Prohibited Content

You may not post, submit, message, link to, or promote content that is:

• False, misleading, deceptive, or fraudulent.
• Harassing, threatening, abusive, hateful, obscene, vulgar, or sexually explicit.
• Discriminatory or disrespectful toward any person or group based on age, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, culture, language, gender, disability, chess rating, playing strength, club affiliation, or background.
• Inappropriate for a kid-friendly, family-friendly chess community.
• Invasive of another person’s privacy.
• About a minor without proper parent or guardian authority.
• A photo of a minor in a public listing, comment, profile, or public area.
• Spam, scams, phishing, malware, or suspicious links.
• Illegal or promoting illegal activity.
• Infringing on copyrights, trademarks, privacy rights, publicity rights, or other rights.
• Unrelated to the purpose of the website.
• Otherwise inappropriate in our judgment.

11. No Endorsement of Listings or Users

Listings and user-submitted content are provided by users, not by Chess Coach Charles.

We do not endorse, verify, guarantee, or take responsibility for user listings, user claims, coaching services, events, products, offers, messages, comments, or contact information.

Users are responsible for doing their own due diligence before relying on a listing, contacting another user, attending an event, hiring a coach, buying or selling anything, or sharing personal information.

12. Moderation and Removal

We may review, edit, reject, hide, remove, or delete any listing, comment, message, account, or other content at our discretion.

We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms, misuse the website, create risk, or behave in a way we consider inappropriate for the community.

We are not required to monitor all content, but we may do so.

13. User Deletion and Expiration of Listings

Users may be able to delete their own listings or set listing expiration dates, depending on website features.

Deleting or expiring a listing may remove it from public view, but copies may remain in backups, caches, logs, search engines, screenshots, archived pages, or third-party systems.

14. Intellectual Property

The website name, design, layout, logos, text, images, and other materials created by or for Chess Coach Charles may be protected by copyright, trademark, or other laws.

Users may not copy, reproduce, modify, distribute, or use website content without permission, except as allowed by law.

Users retain ownership of content they submit, but by posting content on the website, they give Chess Coach Charles permission to display, store, reproduce, moderate, and use that content as needed to operate and promote the website.

15. Third-Party Services and Links

The website may use or link to third-party services, plugins, maps, embedded videos, websites, or tools, including Google Maps, YouTube, WordPress, HivePress, ListingHive, Elementor, Bluehost, and related services.

We are not responsible for third-party websites, tools, content, privacy practices, security practices, or terms.

Use of third-party services may be subject to those third parties’ own terms and privacy policies.

16. No Professional, Legal, Financial, or Safety Advice

Information on this website is provided for general community and informational purposes only.

Nothing on this website is legal, financial, safety, professional, or other specialized advice.

Users are responsible for making their own decisions and seeking professional advice when needed.

17. No Warranty

The website is provided “as is” and “as available.”

We do not guarantee that the website will be uninterrupted, error-free, secure, accurate, current, or free of harmful components.

We do not guarantee that listings, comments, messages, maps, videos, user profiles, or other content will be accurate, complete, reliable, or safe.

18. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Chess Coach Charles and its owner, operators, administrators, and service providers are not responsible for damages, losses, claims, disputes, injuries, or problems arising from:

• Use of the website.
• User listings, comments, messages, or conduct.
• Contact or transactions between users.
• Third-party services, links, maps, videos, plugins, or tools.
• Website errors, downtime, data loss, unauthorized access, or security issues.
• Reliance on information posted by users or third parties.

19. Indemnification

You agree to be responsible for claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, or expenses arising from your use of the website, your content, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of another person’s rights.

20. Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms of Use from time to time.

Changes will be posted on this page with a new effective date.

Continued use of the website after changes are posted means you accept the updated Terms.

21. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to conflict-of-law rules.

22. Contact

For questions about these Terms, contact:

Chess Coach Charles
Website: chesscoachcharles.com
Email: charles@chesscoachcharles.com

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