Privacy policy

What we collect when you use SkinSniper, why we keep it, and how to get it removed.

Last updated: 2 September 2026

Who runs this site

SkinSniper (skinsniper.com) compares CS2 skin prices across marketplaces. This page explains what data the site handles, what we use cookies for, and how to get your data removed. If something here is unclear, write to [email protected].

What we collect

Most of the site works without an account. You give us data when you sign in or use a feature that needs it.

Account
Signing in with Steam gives us your Steam ID and your public profile name and avatar. Your Steam password never reaches us.
What you save
Favourites, price alerts, loadouts, ratings and your site settings, tied to your account.
Linked accounts
If you connect Discord or Telegram, we store the account id needed to send you messages there.
What you put into the tools
Inspect links, Steam profile addresses and item data you paste into the inspector, trade-up calculator or loadout builder.
Messages you send
The content of the feedback you submit, including a screenshot if you attach one.
Technical data
IP address, browser and device type, language, and which pages you opened. This is standard server and analytics data.

Why we use it

  • To run the site: keep you signed in, show prices in your currency, save your favourites and send the alerts you asked for.
  • To see what works. Usage statistics show which pages and tools people use, and where the site breaks.
  • To measure advertising. When we run a campaign, we check whether it brought real visits.
  • To keep the service running: block abuse, limit scraping and meet legal obligations.

Where the GDPR applies, we rely on legitimate interest to run, secure and measure the site, on the contract with you where you have an account, and on your consent where the law requires it for optional cookies.

Cookies

Cookies are small files stored by your browser. We use three kinds.

Necessary
Keep you signed in, remember your language, currency and selected marketplace, and hold an anonymous id that identifies your browser when you are not signed in. Without them the site cannot work properly.
Analytics
Count visits and record how pages are used, including anonymised recordings of clicks and scrolling, so we can find broken layouts and dead ends.
Advertising
Set while we run campaigns, by the advertising platforms and by us, so we can tell which ads brought visitors and which click an ad started. They can also be used to show you our ads on other sites.

You can delete cookies or block them in your browser settings. Blocking the necessary ones signs you out and resets your preferences; blocking the rest does not change how the site works.

Who else sees the data

  • Steam (Valve): signing in and reading a public inventory happen on their side, under their privacy policy.
  • Analytics providers process usage data on our behalf, including session recordings and heatmaps.
  • Advertising platforms receive the events needed to measure the campaigns we run, sent from your browser and from our server.
  • Marketplaces: when you click through to one you leave our site and their rules apply. Some of those links are affiliate links.

We do not sell your data.

How long we keep it

Account data stays until you ask us to remove it. Server logs and analytics data are kept for a limited time and then dropped or aggregated. Anything you delete on the site, such as a favourite, an alert or a loadout, is removed from our database.

Your rights

You can ask us for a copy of the data we hold about you, have it corrected or deleted, object to its use for analytics and advertising, and withdraw consent at any time. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.

Send the request to [email protected] and we will reply.

Extension and bots

The browser extension reads the item name on the page you are viewing and sends it to us to get a price. It has no analytics and needs no account. The Discord and Telegram bots store only the account id needed to answer you and send alerts.

Changes to this policy

We update this page when the site changes. The date at the top shows the last change.