Privacy

1. What is stored

When you sign in through Steam, the Service stores:

• your Steam ID, nickname, avatar and the address of your Steam profile;
• your list of Steam games and how much time you have played each of them;
• the fact that your Steam library is closed by your privacy settings, if it is;
• your tier lists and your ratings;
• your session — that you are signed in, and when that expires.

That is all of it. No email address, no real name, no payment data: the Service never asks for any of them, and Steam does not hand them over.

2. Where it comes from

From Steam — at the moment you sign in, and every time your library is synced. Steam confirms your identity and returns your public profile and your list of games. The Service asks Steam for nothing else about you and cannot see anything Steam keeps private.

3. Cookies

Two, both strictly necessary and both our own:

• one remembers that you are signed in — delete it and you are signed out;
• the other remembers the language you chose, so the site opens in it next time.

There are no advertising or analytics cookies, no tracking pixels and no third-party scripts on the pages. That is also why there is no cookie banner: there is nothing to ask permission for.

4. Server logs

The server records requests to the site: the page, the time, your IP address and which browser you came with. This is used to tell real visitors from robots and to investigate failures.

These records are kept for a limited time and are not shared with anyone.

5. Error reports

When something breaks, an error report goes to Sentry, an error-tracking service that processes it on servers in the European Union. A report can contain the address of the page, the error itself and the IP address of the request. Page content and cookies are not sent.

Sentry is the only external service that receives anything about visitors at all.

6. What other people can see

Your Steam nickname, your avatar and the ratings in a public tier list are public — that is the point of a tier list, and search engines index those pages.

Your contribution to the global ranking is anonymous: a game page shows the number of ratings and their spread, never who gave which. Your playtime is not shown to other people.

A tier list can be made unlisted or private, and then it is not shown to others.

7. What does not happen

• Your data is not sold, rented or handed to advertisers — there is no advertising here at all.
• There is no analytics service, no ad network and no social widget on the pages.
• No newsletters: the Service has no way of emailing you and does not know your address.
• Ratings are not used to build profiles of you for anyone else’s purposes.

8. Deleting your data

Write to hi@tierpile.com from an address you can be reached at, saying which Steam account it concerns. Your profile, your session, your stored library, your tier lists and your ratings are then deleted permanently.

Games themselves stay in the catalogue: they are shared reference data, and other people may have rated them. Your ratings stop counting towards the global ranking.

Doing this from the site itself is not built yet, which is why it goes through email.

9. How long it is kept

Account data is kept for as long as the account exists. Sessions expire on their own. Server logs and error reports are kept for a limited time — weeks, not years.

10. Changes and contact

This notice changes when the Service changes; the date of the last change is at the top of this page.

Any question about the data stored here: hi@tierpile.com.