Privacy Policy

You can use every tool on CS2 Buddy without an account. If you choose to sign in with Steam, Steam confirms who you are and we store your public Steam profile basics: your SteamID, display name, avatar, profile link and country if your profile shows one. We never see your Steam password. Signing in sets one cookie that keeps you signed in for 30 days; signing out removes it.

Your match history

If you link your matchmaking history on the My matches page, we store the match history authentication code and the match share code you paste, and the share codes of the matches Steam lists for you after that, along with which ones you asked us to review. For a match you ask us to review, we download its demo from Valve, read the scoreboard from it (the map, the score, and each player's Steam name, SteamID and stats, down to what they did in each round), keep that scoreboard with your match list where only you and the few people who run CS2 Buddy can see it, add each player's own line to that player's profile page (described below), and delete the demo. The authentication code only lets us read that list of share codes; it can't sign in to your account. Unlinking deletes the codes and the list from CS2 Buddy, and you can cancel the code itself on Steam's help site at any time.

Reviewing a match reads every player in it, so each of the ten players gets a stats page at /players/ followed by their SteamID, built from their own lines in the matches reviewed here: their Steam name as the demo shows it, a link to their Steam profile, and their stats. Each match on such a page opens a recap of that match: both teams' scoreboards, the rounds and who led each category, with the players named and linked to their own pages. The match also has a page of its own with the same scoreboards, told from no one player's side, for the players to pass around; it opens for anyone who has its link for as long as at least one of its players has a page that is shown. These pages are kept out of search engines. If one is about you and you want it hidden, sign in with Steam and use the switch on the My matches page; it then stays hidden, and recaps of matches you played show your line without your name.

Once you link your own match history, your page is private unless you switch on a public profile on the My matches page. A public profile shows your Steam name, avatar and a link to your Steam profile, with your own stats from the matches you had reviewed: totals, a map by map breakdown, your recent results and a recap of each match. It also counts the matches you played that other players had reviewed. Search engines may list it once it covers ten matches. You can switch it off at any time, and unlinking your match history takes it down too. Once you have signed in, a page of yours that other people can open can also be found by your Steam name in this site's own search box; a private or hidden one can't. A page that is private or hidden can still be opened by the few people who run CS2 Buddy, while looking after the site, as can your My matches page with its match list; nobody else can see them.

Creators' streams

If you hold the Creator role and link a Twitch or Kick channel on the My stream page, we store the channel's name and ask Twitch or Kick about once a minute whether it is live. While it is, the home page shows your Steam name and avatar with the stream's title, game and viewer count, and your profile page links to your channels. Unlinking takes the channel off CS2 Buddy. For visitors: a live stream's preview picture is loaded from Twitch or Kick, and its player only once you press it, at which point that site sees your visit as it would on its own pages.

Analytics

We use Plausible Analytics to count page visits. It uses no cookies and collects no personal data; visits are aggregated and anonymous.

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Local storage

Some tools may save your settings in your own browser so they're there next time. That data never leaves your device.

Contact

Questions? Email zach@findzach.com.