Privacy changes coverage, not guilt
Steam lets account owners control whether profile details, game information, friends, and inventory data are public. These choices are legitimate. CC Stats does not treat a private setting or a missing provider response as proof of suspicious behavior.
What remains visible
A private profile may still expose a basic Steam identity, while playtime, friends, inventory, comments, or detailed statistics can be unavailable. Friends-only data generally cannot be fetched by a public analysis service unless the viewer has the required Steam relationship.
How CC Stats represents unavailable data
Private, missing, rate-limited, and provider-error states are kept distinct. They are not silently converted into zero hours, zero friends, an empty inventory, or another numeric claim. Reduced coverage lowers how much can responsibly be concluded from the report.
Retained public summary
CC Stats retains a limited public summary used for profile pages, recent results, view counts, and sitemaps. It can include Steam ID, display name, avatar, country, trust estimate, public rank and performance highlights, and analysis timestamps. Provider credentials and private inventory contents are not retained.
Updating or correcting a summary
Running a profile analysis again requests fresh public provider data. Changing Steam privacy settings can affect what is available on the next analysis. For correction or removal requests concerning the retained public summary, contact contact@ccstats.net.
See the privacy policy and trust estimate methodology for more detail.