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Your public Steam Profile information, including potentially identifiable details, is accessible through the Steamworks API (risk_flags-0001). Information posted on community forums is also public and at your own risk (risk_flags-0002). For children in certain countries, parental consent is needed to create an account (risk_flags-0003). Valve uses cookies and similar technologies for analytics and service improvement (risk_flags-0004). You are not required to use your real name for a Steam User Account (data_use-0001), and Valve states it does not sell personal data (data_use-0002). Your personal data may be transferred internationally (data_use-0003). If you delete your Steam account, you have a 30-day grace period to restore it (cancellation_renewal-0001), but deleting it means losing access to all Steam services and subscriptions (cancellation_renewal-0002). California residents have specific privacy rights under the CCPA, including the right to know and request deletion of personal data (gotchas-0001).
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Information posted on community forums is public and at your own risk.
When you post a message to a Steam community message board, forum, or chat area, the information becomes publicly available online, and you do so at your own risk.
Why it matters: Information you post to community forums, message boards, or chat areas will be publicly available online, and you share it at your own risk.
When posting a message to a board, forum or chat area, please be aware that the information is being made publicly available online; therefore, you are doing so at your own risk.
**5. Who Has Access to Data**, paragraph 7 · Citation strength: strong
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Parental consent is required for children to create an account in countries with higher age of consent.
In countries with a higher age of consent for collecting Personal Data, Valve requires parental consent before a Steam User Account can be created and associated Personal Data collected.
Why it matters: If you are in a country with a higher age of consent for data collection, parental consent is needed for your child to create a Steam User Account and for their Personal Data to be collected.
Where certain countries apply a higher age of consent for the collection of Personal Data, Valve requires parental consent before a Steam User Account can be created and Personal Data associated with it collected.
Valve uses "Cookies" (text files) and similar technologies like web beacons, pixels, ad tags, and device identifiers to analyze user service usage and improve services, marketing, analytics, or website functionality.
Why it matters: This service uses cookies and other technologies to analyze how you use the services, improve them, and enhance marketing, analytics, or website functionality.
We use "Cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, and similar technologies (e.g. web beacons, pixels, ad tags and device identifiers) to help us analyze how users use our services, as well as to improve the services we are offering, to improve marketing, analytics or website functionality.
3.6 Tracking Data and Cookies, paragraph 1 · Citation strength: strong
Data Use
How the company uses your data, and what rights you have over that use.
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Valve allows you to choose to provide your real name for your Steam User Account.
Valve does not require you to provide or use your real name when setting up a Steam User Account.
Why it matters: You are not required to provide or use your real name to set up a Steam User Account.
We do not require you to provide or use your real name for the setup of a Steam User Account.
Valve may transfer personal data outside the EEA, UK, or Switzerland.
As a US-based company operating a worldwide gaming service, Valve may transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland.
Why it matters: Your personal data may be transferred outside of the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland.
As a US-based company that operates a worldwide gaming service, we may transfer your personal data outside of the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland.
Swiss representative for data protection questions:, paragraph 7 · Citation strength: strong
Cancellation & Renewal
How you can cancel the service or subscription, and how renewals are handled.
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You have a 30-day grace period to restore a deleted Steam User Account.
Valve allows you to restore your Steam User Account within a 30-day grace period after you request its deletion, preventing accidental account loss due to credentials loss or hacking.
Why it matters: If you request to delete your Steam User Account, you have a 30-day period to restore it if needed, to prevent accidental deletion.
We allow you to restore your Steam User Account during a grace period of 30 (thirty) days from the moment you request deletion of your Steam User Account. This functionality allows you not to lose your account by mistake, because of your loss of your account credentials or due to hacking.
**5. Who Has Access to Data**, paragraph 22 · Citation strength: strong
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Deleting your Steam account means losing access to services and subscriptions.
Deleting your Steam User Account will result in losing access to all Steam services, including the account itself, subscriptions, game-related information, and other linked services.
Why it matters: If you delete your Steam User Account, you will lose access to all Steam services, including your subscriptions, game data, and other services linked to that account.
As a result of deleting your Steam User Account, you will lose access to Steam services, including the Steam User Account, Subscriptions and game-related information linked to the Steam User Account and the possibility to access other services you are using the Steam User Account for.
**5. Who Has Access to Data**, paragraph 21 · Citation strength: strong
Gotchas
Important information that is not necessarily unfavorable, but may be difficult to find or understand.
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California residents have specific privacy rights, including knowing what data is collected and requesting its deletion.
California residents have privacy rights under the CCPA, including the right to know what Personal Data is collected, used, disclosed, and sold, and the right to request its deletion, subject to exceptions.
Why it matters: As a California resident, you have the right to know what Personal Data is collected, used, disclosed, and sold, and you can request its deletion, though some exceptions apply.
**Right to Request Deletion.** You also have the right to request deletion of Personal Data that is in our possession, subject to certain exceptions.
**10. Additional Information for Users from California**, paragraph 3 · Citation strength: strong
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