Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 3 March 2025

This policy explains what personal data we collect when you use cs.deals, why we collect it, who we share it with, and how long we keep it.

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What we collect and where it comes from

From your sign in provider. You can sign in with Steam or other 3rd party accounts we support. The provider may share with us account information. We never see your password.

From you. Email address if you signup with it or provide it at a later date, payment method details, the items you sell and buy, support messages, and anything you type into the site. If you go through identity verification, this also includes your legal name, date of birth, address, nationality, ID document, and a selfie.

From your device. IP address, browser and OS, device identifiers, language, timezone, browser information, referring URL, pages visited, and timestamps. Standard server-log data plus what our fraud and analytical tools collect.

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Why we use it

What We Do

Data Involved

Run your account, execute trades, and process payments

Sign-in data, email, transaction and payment data, inventory

Verify identity and comply with AML and other laws

KYC data, ID documents

Detect and prevent fraud, abuse, and multi accounting which keeps the site secure

Device data, IP, behavior, payment and sign in data

Support and account emails

Email, account data, and what you send us.

Marketing emails and analytics

Email, usage data

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Who we share it with

We share your data, usually, in non identifiable formats when we need it to run and improve our services. The list below may not include every service but covers the main.

Payment processors

Identity verification services

Infrastructure, tooling, support, and analytical partners

Fraud-prevention networks

Valve / Steam

Professional advisers, legal counsel, and accountants

Authorities where legally required by local court order in country of our company formation

Future acquisitions or corporate restructuring

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How long we keep it

Data

Kept For

Why

Transaction records, payment data, KYC data

5 years

Anti Money Laundering Laws

Fraud and dispute records

5 years

To defend claims and prevent repeat abuse

Account profile, usage and activity data

24 months

To handle reactivation requests and understand how the service is used

Anything else not listed above

24 months

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Data we no longer need is deleted or anonymised. Anonymised data may be kept indefinitely for statistics.

If your account is closed for fraud or a policy violation, we keep enough to stop you opening another one
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Your rights

You can ask us to:

Correct it if it’s wrong

Delete it, except what we’re legally required to keep (section 4).

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Cookies

Covered in our Cookie Policy.

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Change

When we change this policy, we update the date at the top. It is your responsibility to check our policies.

Contact

privacy@cs.deals