Privacy
TheGameCurator is built to forget you. There is no account system, no user database, and no advertising network behind it. This page describes exactly what happens to data while you use the app.
What stays in your browser
- Your answers. Platform, source, budget, duration, vibes, genres and mode are held in sessionStorage. They are deleted by your browser when the tab closes.
- Your cookie choice. A single entry in localStorage records the decision — including whether you allowed analytics and advertising — so the banner is not shown again.
Neither is a cookie in the transmitted sense: nothing is attached to requests, and nothing leaves your device on its own.
What the server does
The server acts as a proxy to Steam. When you ask for recommendations it forwards your filters, fetches public store data, scores it, and returns five titles. That work happens inside a single request and leaves nothing behind.
- Public store data (titles, prices, genres, Deck ratings) is held in a short-lived in-memory cache to stay inside Steam's rate limits.
- Account data is never cached. If you link a Steam profile, the owned-games list is fetched per request, used to rank, and discarded.
- Your SteamID is not written to any log, file or database by the application.
Linking a Steam profile
Linking is optional and only reads what Steam already publishes: your persona name, avatar, and the list of games on a public profile. If the profile or its game details are private, nothing is read and the app tells you how to change it. You can unlink at any time by clearing the field, or by closing the tab.
Third parties
- Valve / Steam. Requests to Steam are made by our server, not your browser, so Steam does not see your IP address. Store artwork, however, is loaded directly from Steam's CDN by your browser.
- Google Fonts and Fontshare serve the two typefaces. Your browser contacts them to fetch the font files.
- Google AdSense, where this deployment runs ads. It is loaded only after you allow the advertising category, and can set its own cookies once you do. Decline and it is never requested.
Your rights
Because no personal data is stored, there is nothing to export, rectify or erase on our side — closing the tab is a complete deletion. If you believe otherwise, or want to raise a concern, contact the operator of this deployment.
Not affiliated with Valve
TheGameCurator is an independent project. Steam and the Steam logo are trademarks of Valve Corporation.