Thank you for visiting our web site and reviewing our privacy policy. The purpose of this policy is to explain how we handle information we collect from you during your visit to our game servers. It is important to keep in mind that we do not collect personally-identifiable information (name, address, e-mail address or other unique identifiers).
When you visit our web site to read pages or download information, we automatically collect and
store the following non-identifying information:
- The Internet protocol (IP) address from which you access our web site. An IP address is a unique
number that is automatically assigned to the computer you are using whenever you are surfing
the web.
- The type of browser, such as Netscape or Internet Explorer, and operating system, such as Windows
98 or Linux, used to access our site.
- The date and time our site is accessed, for the purpose of monitoring demand.
- The pages visited, for the purpose of improving the usefulness of our web site by providing helpful
links and removing pages that are not read.
Please note that the STEAM interface, independent of privacy settings, includes some brief personal information on each user's page.
This may include, links to any friends' user pages, details of any games owned, the number of hours of playtime during the past two weeks, a 0-10 "Steam Rating" of activity, and links to any groups of which the user is a member. Users can also receive a feed of their friends' actions, including groups joined, games purchased, and Steam Achievements earned.
We will not aid in the logging or distribution of your private STEAM information in any way as we take your privacy very seriously.
This information does not identify you personally. We maintain the above information in system logs. We use this information to make our site more useful to visitors by learning the number of visitors to
our site, the number of pages served, and the level of demand for specific pages. We do not track or record information about identifiable individuals and their visits.
For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, our computer system employs software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.
The following additional policies apply to subscribers of our game services:
- To register for our services you will have to provide us with personally-identifiable information to
enable us to provide you with our services.The information you provide will be entered into our
database.
- If you register as a subscriber, we do not make your personally-identifiable information available to
anyone unless required by law to do so.