Privacy

Steam Community Database helps you look up public Steam profiles, friends, groups, and games. It is not affiliated with Valve.

What we keep

Public profiles, friendships, group memberships, and games you or Steam already make visible.

A Steam Web API key identifies us, not you. We never ask for your password or for someone else’s key.

Sign-in

Signing in with Steam (OpenID) proves you control an account. That is how we know who may erase a record. A private profile stays private after you sign in.

Where information comes from

Public Steam pages, the SCDB bot after you add it as a friend, and the extension in your browser. We keep those separate. We never ask for a developer Web API key from steamcommunity.com/dev/apikey.

The SCDB bot

Adding the bot lets us see what Steam shows to friends, only while you are friends with it. Unfriending stops that. By default we drop those extra friends. You can hide them or keep them from your account page. What was already public stays.

The extension

The extension uses your Steam sign-in in this browser, only about your account. That sign-in never reaches our servers. Disconnecting clears it here; what we already saved stays until you erase.

Private is not empty

A public profile can still hide a game. An empty friends list means none; a hidden list is not empty. We do not guess which, and we do not invent alt-account links.

Copies and countries

The main copy lives on a machine we control. Public pages may also sit on a global CDN, so copies can exist in many countries until they expire or we remove them. An erasure that does not reach the CDN has not finished.

How to erase

Sign in with the account you control and request erasure. We can hide a name and keep the connection, or delete the whole connection. Only the person who controls the account may demand that, and only after we have proved it.