Steam Terms Scorecard

Grade A+ — Highly protective (score 100/100)

Valve maintains a highly protective privacy policy that explicitly pledges not to sell personal data and provides a comprehensive, self-serve dashboard for data management and deletion.

Highly protective policy with explicit no-sale pledge and robust user controls.

Terms at a glance

Sells your data
NO
Forced arbitration
NO
Trains AI on your content
NO
Collects biometric data
NO
Shares data with government
YES
Easy to cancel
YES
Tells you before changes
UNCLEAR
Deletes data on request
YES

What the terms actually say

Section 5

Valve does not sell Personal Data.

Valve explicitly commits to not selling your personal information to third parties.

Section 6.3

You can also request the deletion of your Steam user account via the Steam support page.

You have a clear, self-serve path to delete your account and associated personal data.

Section 5.7

Valve may release Personal Data to comply with court orders or laws and regulations that require us to disclose such information.

Valve will share your data with law enforcement or government agencies if legally required to do so.

Section 6.6

Valve makes your Personal Data available in structured HTML format through the Privacy Dashboard.

You have the right to export your data in a usable, machine-readable format.

Section 9

Measures we have taken include, among other things: Industry-standard encryption

Valve employs standard security measures like encryption to protect your information.

Last reviewed 2026-07-25 under rubric v3.5.

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