Does Steam train on your data?
Valve's Steam privacy agreement never mentions training, models or AI. What happens to your reviews, chat and play data beyond recommendations is not stated.
The agreement, saved by hand on 6 September 2026 and read in full for the first time (the monitor had stored a twelfth of it), runs to 135 paragraphs and does not contain "train", "model", "machine learning" or "artificial intelligence". It says store content and update messages are "tailored to meet your needs and populated with relevant recommendations" from the data it describes. Recommendations are not training, and the document does not say what else the data feeds. A finding of silence.
- Steam Privacy Policy Agreement (store.steampowered.com/privacy_agreement), saved by hand 2026-09-06, 135 paragraphs
- train, training, fine-tune, machine learning, artificial intelligence, AI model, large language model
- 0 of 0 raw hits
- 6 Sept 2026
None of the seven terms appears in the document.
What each plan can refuse
The same questions, asked of every plan we could identify. Every cell comes from a quoted clause or a documented search - see the evidence above.
- Not established
- Not stated
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- Not established
How to opt out of Steam AI training
Plan by plan, from what Steam's own policy says about refusing. Where it publishes the steps, they're listed here with the limits they carry. Where there's nothing to switch off, or nothing graded, this says so instead of inventing a menu path.
All accounts
Not graded, so no route is pointed at. The agreement, saved by hand on 6 September 2026 and read in full for the first time (the monitor had stored a twelfth of it), runs to 135 paragraphs and does not contain "train", "model", "machine learning" or "artificial intelligence". It says store content and update messages are "tailored to meet your needs and populated with relevant recommendations" from the data it describes. Recommendations are not training, and the document does not say what else the data feeds. A finding of silence.
What this policy has done since we started watching
No change detected. We've held a copy of Steam (Valve)'s policy since 30 Aug 2026 and re-read it since, across 2 captures. The text hasn't moved in a way that touches this verdict. That's a fact about the document, and it's only knowable by having kept the earlier copies.
Everything we read
Vendor response
We haven't yet written to Steam (Valve) about this verdict, and they haven't disputed, clarified or announced a change to any clause quoted above. When either happens it's published here, word for word.
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