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Last updated 18 August 2026

Berries GameDB is a public analytics site for Steam games, plus a Chrome extension that shows follower counts on the Steam store. Neither has accounts, logins or newsletters, and neither is funded by advertising.

We do not ask for your name, email or payment details, we set no cookies, we run no third-party analytics or advertising scripts, and we never sell or share data about you. The rest of this page explains what does get sent and stored, because “nothing at all” would not be true.

The website

Pages are rendered from our own database of public Steam data. Using the site involves no account and no tracking identifiers.

  • Starred games are stored in your browser’s localStorage, on your device only. They are never sent to us, and clearing your browser data removes them.
  • No cookies are set — not for analytics, not for preferences, not for advertising.
  • Game artwork(capsule and header images) is loaded directly from Valve’s content network at cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com. That means Valve and its CDN provider receive your IP address and the image request, as they would if you were browsing Steam. We have no control over, and no access to, what they log.

The Chrome extension

The extension does exactly one thing: on pages of store.steampowered.com, it collects the Steam app ids already present in the links on that page, asks our API for their follower counts, and draws a small badge on each game.

What it sends

  • A list of numeric Steam app ids (for example 440,570,730) to api.berries-studios.com, in one batched request per page.
  • Nothing else. It does not send the page URL, the page contents, form data, your search terms, your Steam account or profile, your browsing history, or any identifier for you or your browser. There is no user id, and requests are not linked together into a session or profile.

What it stores, on your device

  • Follower counts in chrome.storage.local for 24 hours, so that revisiting a page costs no request. This is a cache of public game data, not a record of where you have been.
  • Your on/off preference for the badges in chrome.storage.sync. If you have Chrome sync enabled, Google syncs that single true/false value across your own devices; it does not reach us.

What it can access, and why

  • Steam store pages — the extension must read the game links on the page to know which app ids to look up, and must be able to draw the badges. It reads nothing else from the page and writes nothing back to Steam.
  • Storage — for the two items above.
  • Network access to api.berries-studios.com only.This is the single host in the extension’s manifest; Chrome blocks it from contacting anything else.

Turning the badges off in the extension’s popup stops all of it — no lookups are made and no requests leave your browser.

Server logs

Our API and website run on Microsoft Azure, which acts as our hosting provider. Like any web server, they produce operational logs of the requests they receive: the path requested, the response status, and how long it took.

  • Application telemetry uses the client IP address to derive an approximate location and does not retain the address itself.
  • Platform logs that may contain IP addresses are retained for 30 days and then deleted automatically.
  • The API applies a per-IP rate limit to protect itself from abuse. That counter lives in memory for the length of a one-minute window and is never written to a database.
  • Logs are used only to keep the service running and to investigate faults and abuse. They are not used to build profiles, and they are not shared with anyone.

The data we actually hold

Our database is about games, not people: titles, descriptions, prices, release dates, genres, tags, review totals, follower counts, and the studios that made and published them. All of it comes from Valve’s public Steam Web API and public store pages. Estimated owners, wishlists and revenue are our own calculations derived from those public figures — informed guesses, not figures supplied by Valve or by any developer.

Berries GameDB is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated by Valve Corporation. Steam and the Steam logo are trademarks of Valve Corporation.

Children

The service is intended for a general audience and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, of any age.

Changes

If what we send, store or log changes, this page changes with it and the date at the top is updated. A change that meaningfully expands what leaves your browser will also be described in the extension’s store listing for that release.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or a request about data you believe relates to you: privacy@berries-studios.com.