Terms of use
1. The agreement
ChessClerk is a chess study program made by Clerk Suite LLC. By using it you agree to these terms and to the privacy notice. If you don't agree, don't use it.
2. Who can use it, and your account
Anyone can use ChessClerk. The clerk, AI credit and anything kept with an account need you to sign in with Google. Keep your sign-in to yourself and don't use someone else's.
3. The engine, the tablebase and the clerk can be wrong
Evaluations come from our own Stockfish, endgames of 7 pieces or fewer from the Lichess tablebase, and the clerk's words from an AI model. The tablebase is exact; Stockfish is very strong but not perfect; the clerk can be wrong, and ChessClerk checks its chess claims against the engine where it can. Use them to learn, and check anything that matters.
4. The clerk is for chess
The clerk is there for everything chess. Outside chess it answers briefly and brings the talk back to chess. It is a study tool, not a companion. How it reads, keeps and cleans what you write is on the How the clerk works page.
5. Keeping it clean
ChessClerk is kept clean for everyone. Swear words show as X on the screen and are never read by the clerk, and a message with nothing useful in it is removed after you send it, without a reply. Don't use ChessClerk to abuse, threaten or harass anyone, and don't try to get the clerk to produce anything sexual, violent or hateful. In coaching classes and anything shared with others, the same holds, and moderators may remove what breaks it.
6. Fair play
Don't use ChessClerk to get help during a game you are playing against another person, online or over the board. Using it against an opponent inside ChessClerk, or to study a game once it is over, is fine.
7. Your games and your content
Your games, notes, lines and messages are yours. You let us handle them only as far as needed to run the features you use, as the privacy notice says. You must have the right to anything you import or upload. Feedback you send may be used to improve ChessClerk; it is quoted as a review only if you said yes.
8. Our content
ChessClerk's code, lessons, layouts and design belong to Clerk Suite LLC. The engines, piece pictures, puzzles, game collections and other parts made by others keep their own licenses, listed on the licenses page.
9. AI credit and payments
The clerk's answers use AI credit. Credit is bought through Stripe whenever you need it, for the clerk or for features, any time of the month, as a top-up of $10, $25 or $50. Each answer's cost depends on the model that answers it. The free questions you start with have no cash value, can't be exchanged or transferred, and end with your first top-up.
10. Coaching
Anyone can list themselves as a coach. A coach can make a class with a join code, set homework and see each student's results and weak spots. A student shares only a display name with the class, and what they post in the class's one thread of messages, which the whole class sees; there are no private messages between two people, and any message can be reported. Coaches are responsible for using what they see only to teach their class. Coaches arrange their own lesson fees outside ChessClerk: ChessClerk lists coaches and hosts their classes, and takes no part in what a coach charges.
11. No guarantee
ChessClerk is provided as it is. We work to keep it running and correct, but we can't promise it will always be available or free of mistakes. To the extent the law allows, Clerk Suite LLC is not liable for indirect losses from using it, and our total liability is limited to what you paid us in the twelve months before the claim. These terms are governed by the laws of Montana, United States.
12. Ending
You can stop using ChessClerk and delete your data at any time. We may suspend an account that breaks these terms.
13. Changes
If these terms change, the new version goes here with its date, and important changes are told to you before they apply.
Contact: chessclerk@gmail.com