Privacy Policy
When you visit, sign up or otherwise use the site
We may collect neccessary personally identifiable information (PII).
What Data do we Collect?
Email, Steam ID
If you decide to sign up and create an account, you can choose whether you want to use an email and password combination or sign in through Steam. In the first case we will store your email, in the second case we will store your Steam ID. We only need you to have one of these. You can manage them from your Settings.
Besides signing in, your email is also required if you want us to send you notifications.
Country
When an account is created we will also store your country which was determined by your IP. You may change it in your Settings if it's not detected correctly. Country is used to determine region for which we should show you prices.
3rd party account type, ID and name
If you sign up via Steam, we will automatically set up your username from Steam and create a 3rd party profile entry. This entry consists of account type, account ID and account name. These are used when you want to import games into your Waitlist and/or Collection. You can manage your linked profiles from your Settings.
IP
When you log in, we record your IP and create a cookie with a token. IP is stored solely for your information, so you can see where you are currently signed in from. You can delete these Sessions and thus sign out from remote devices this way.
We may also record your IP in system logs, along with visited URL and/or user-agent. Logs are removed automatically after about a month.
In cases where we detect abuse, your IP may be blocked.
For how long will we store your data?
Data from logs are deleted automatically after a short amount of time, usually a month.
Data associated with your account will be stored until you decide to delete your account.
Cookies
We use cookies. Here's a list of cookies we use with short explanation why do we need them:
Primary Cookies
| visitor | An identifying cookie when you're not signed in, used e.g. for game stats so we can see what games are trending |
|---|---|
| user | Thanks to this cookie you can sign in |
| sess2 | Security cookie required for certain operations |
| country | Stores your country for improving deals accuracy |
| currency | Stores your currency so we know in what currency you want to see prices |
| theme | Stores your selected theme |
Other Cookies
You may also see some other cookies.
Almost definitely you will see PHPSESSID which is cookie thanks to which PHP Session mechanism works.
If you find we're using cookies that are not listed here, please let us know. Feel free to reach us if you require further explanation as well.
3rd Parties
We do not share your private data but we use 3rd parties for their services or as data processors.
Cloudflare (GDPR link) is a CDN and proxy service. You connect to our hosting servers through Cloudflare.
Amazon AWS (GDPR link) is a service we use for hosting whole of IsThereAnyDeal. That's where your data reside.
MessageBird (GDPR link) is the service we use for sending all emails.
Affiliates
IsThereAnyDeal is possible thanks to affiliate relationships with some stores we cover.
The basic "how it works?" is that when you click on a link that leads you to the store, you will either be redirected through an intermediate domain or there will be a tag added to the URL that says we sent you there. This link will usually create a tracking cookie and if you purchase a game within certain time limit we will get a percentage of the sale.
Not all stores we cover have affiliate programs, the ones that do will have an icon next to their name. If you worry about tracking, or are opposed to affiliate links in general feel free to go directly to store and use IsThereAnyDeal just to track prices.
Sharing data
We are not sharing any PII to anyone. We are not selling away your emails nor any other data that could identify you, and we never will.
We may share aggregate data, like how many users have Waitlisted given game (which are also accessible publicly for anyone on game info pages and via API) or statistical data about website such as number of registered users or how many visits we get.
Right to erasure - deleting your account
You may decide that you no longer want to use IsThereAnyDeal and that's totally fine. You have a right to erasure of all your personal data. You may do so from your Settings. If you decide to permanently delete your account your data will be immediatelly deleted with an exception of your user ID (random alphanumeric string), that will be stored so it can't be used again).
Any public entries you may have created, like Specials, reviews or comments will be left, but author will be marked as deleted.
Data that may have been stored in logs or backups will be removed during automatic rollover.
Contact
See Contact page for options on how to get in touch.