What Are the Terms of Use for This Site?

Last updated: 12 February 2025

Last Updated & Overview

This page lays out the terms that govern your use of Chess For Juniors. We've kept the legalese to a minimum and tried to write something a parent could read over a cup of coffee.

These terms cover what you can expect from us, what we ask from you, and what happens if something goes sideways. They apply to everyone who visits — students, parents, teachers browsing lesson plans, and the occasional coach checking tournament records.

If you keep using the site, you're working within these terms. That's the short version. The rest of this page fills in the detail.

Agreeing to These Terms

Browsing the site, downloading a worksheet, or submitting a form all count as agreement to what's written here. We don't ask you to click a box. Using the pages is enough.

This applies to every visitor, whether you arrived through a search, a coach's recommendation, or a link a teammate sent you.

If any part of these terms doesn't sit right with you, the simplest answer is to not use the site. There's no hard feelings in that. But we can't carve out private exceptions, so it's all or nothing.

What We Expect From You

Most of this comes down to common sense, but it helps to spell it out.

When you fill in a registration form for a camp or send us a message, give us accurate information. We use those details to confirm spots, contact families, and sort age-appropriate groups. A wrong birthdate can land a beginner in an advanced session, which helps nobody.

Don't try to break things. That means no probing the site for weaknesses, no automated scraping that hammers the servers, and no attempts to reach areas that aren't public. Coaching content stays available for everyone when the infrastructure isn't under attack.

And use the service within the law that applies where you are. We can't list every rule across every region, so the responsibility for staying lawful sits with you.

How You May Use Our Content

The lessons, diagrams, puzzles, and articles on Chess For Juniors are here for personal, non-commercial use. Print a tactics sheet for your weekend study. Show a video to your own student. That's exactly what we built it for.

What you can't do is republish our material as your own, sell it, or bundle it into a paid program without asking first. A school chess club wanting to reproduce a worksheet pack for a wider event should reach out — we usually say yes, but we like to know.

The intellectual property stays with us or with the people who licensed it to us. Using the content doesn't transfer ownership of anything. Think of it as a borrowed library book rather than a purchase.

Where the line falls between fair personal use and republishing isn't always obvious. If you're unsure whether your plans cross it, ask before you act.

No Warranties on the Material

We put real care into the coaching content. Even so, we offer it without warranties of any kind.

That means we don't promise every diagram is flawless, every link still works, or every piece of advice reflects the latest tournament ruling. Chess pedagogy shifts, openings fall in and out of favour, and the occasional typo slips a knight onto the wrong square.

So treat the material as a starting point, not a final authority. For decisions with real consequences — a contested ruling at a rated event, say, check with a qualified arbiter or coach before you act on what you read here.

Limits on Our Liability

Using the site is at your own risk. We've said the content may contain errors, and we won't be on the hook if one of them costs you something.

To the maximum extent the law allows, we're not liable for indirect, special, or incidental damages tied to your use of the site. A missed tournament deadline, a download that didn't open, a lesson that didn't land the way you hoped — none of those create a claim against us.

Some places don't allow certain liability limits to be excluded. Where that's the case, our liability is limited to the smallest amount the law permits, and nothing here strips away rights you can't legally waive.

Governing Law & Severability

These terms are governed by the local law that applies to where we operate. Any dispute that can't be sorted out directly falls to the relevant courts in that jurisdiction.

Severability is the boring-but-important part. If a court decides one clause here is invalid or unenforceable, that clause gets set aside and everything else still stands. One bad sentence doesn't collapse the whole agreement.

We'd much rather resolve a concern with an email than a courtroom, so a message to us is always the first step we'd suggest.

Changes to These Terms

We revise these terms from time to time. New programs, new features, or a change in the law can all prompt an update.

When we make changes, the revision date at the top of the page changes with them. Continuing to use the site after an update means you're working under the new version. We won't always send a notice for small wording fixes, so the date is your reliable signal.

Questions about any of this? Send them through the channels on our Contact Us page. For how we handle your data, our Privacy Policy covers the detail.