Steam users, particularly those in the EU, UK, and California, have rights to access, correct, and request deletion of their personal data held by Valve.
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Exercising your right to access or delete your data gives you visibility into and some control over the personal information Valve holds and shares about you across the platform.
Interpretive note: The policy text does not explicitly detail the data subject request fulfillment procedures, timelines, or identity verification process, requiring inference from regulatory requirements applicable to Valve's stated compliance frameworks.
This addition emphasizes user rights related to data access, correction, deletion, and objection, strengthening transparency around individual data control mechanisms.
View full change record →EU and UK users have GDPR-backed rights to request access to, correction of, or deletion of their personal data, and California users have CCPA rights to know and delete. These rights can be exercised through Steam Support, though the policy does not specify response timelines in the policy text itself.
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"We will collect and process Personal Data whenever you explicitly provide it to us or send it as part of communication with others on Steam, e.g. in Steam Community Forums, chats, or when you provide feedback or other user generated content.Excerpt from Steam's Privacy Policy
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: GDPR Articles 15 through 22 establish data subject rights including access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, and objection.
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Exercising your right to access or delete your data gives you visibility into and some control over the personal information Valve holds and shares about you across the platform.
EU and UK users have GDPR-backed rights to request access to, correction of, or deletion of their personal data, and California users have CCPA rights to know and delete. These rights can be exercised through Steam Support, though the policy does not specify response timelines in the policy text itself.
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