Privacy
Steam Community Database looks up public Steam profiles, friends, groups, and games. It is not affiliated with Valve.
What we store
Public facts from Steam, for accounts someone looked up:
- Identity — persona name, avatar, Steam level, country, account creation date, and VAC or game-ban state.
- Connections — public friendships and group memberships.
- Games — which games a profile shows, and playtime where Steam reports it.
- Progress — achievements, statistics, badges and account XP, each with the coverage state it arrived with.
- Communities — a group’s own member and online counts, when we have read that group’s page.
- Published work — that a review or Workshop item exists, which game it belongs to, and when it was posted. We do not store the text of a review.
- Inventory — how many items sit in a public inventory, by game. Counts only. We do not price anything.
- Attention — how many comments or profile awards a profile has received. These are other people’s actions, not the account owner’s.
- When we looked — every value above carries the observation it came from and the time of that observation.
- Matches — when a replay from a match you were in is parsed, we store who played in that match, the map, and the score. These are derived from the replay, not a Valve rating, and they are not a way to search for people. Only you and the other people in that match can see it here. A public showcase never includes it.
We do not collect match history as a search over strangers. A match from a parsed replay is stored only because someone in that match unlocked it. We do not store the contents of a private profile.
Sign-in
Signing in with Steam (OpenID) proves you control an account and agrees extras from the SCDB bot or SCDB Companion are shared. You can hide those extras or erase your record in Settings. A surface Steam did not show is not guessed into a public fact.
Sources
Public Steam pages, the SCDB bot after you add it as a friend, and SCDB Companion in your browser. Each source is labelled.
The SCDB bot
Adding the bot lets us see what Steam shows to friends, only while you are friends with it. Unfriending stops new reads. By default we keep and share what it already saw. In Settings you can hide those extras or delete them. Public facts stay either way.
SCDB Companion
SCDB Companion captures your Steam web token in this browser. After you select Sync Steam Data, the Worker fetches Steam as you. Origin persist receives attested records and never the token. Disconnecting clears the connection here; stored records stay 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. Hidden and empty stay separate.
Copies
The main copy is on a machine we control. Public pages may also sit on a CDN in other countries until they expire or we remove them. An erasure that does not reach the CDN has not finished.
Limits
We do not link accounts we suspect share an operator, and we do not rank people by ban history. A calculated overlap names the records it used. A shared group is a shared membership.
How to erase
Sign in with the account you control, then open Settings and use Request erasure. If you are signed out, that link sends you through Steam first. You can hide a name and keep the connection, or delete the whole connection. Only the account owner can request that.
Erasure covers identity, extras you authorized, games, progress, published work, inventory counts, attention, stored matches for that account, and the observation records behind them.
How a fact is named: Methodology. What this host currently serves: Data status. There is no separate contact form; erasure is Settings after Steam sign-in.