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"we may also use your collected information to customize such marketing messages as well as collect information on whether you opened such messages and which links in their text you followed.Excerpt from Steam's Privacy Policy
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The clause states: “we may also use your collected information to customize such marketing messages as well as collect information on whether you opened such messages and which links in their text you followed.”
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