Totaljerkface accounts can be linked to a Steam account. Linking is optional. If you never link a Steam account, nothing in this section applies to you, and the rest of our Privacy Policy continues to govern your use of the site.
Linking happens entirely through the Steam client. You are never redirected to another site, and you are never asked to enter your Steam username or password anywhere outside Steam itself. When you choose to link, the Steam client generates a short-lived authentication token and sends it to our servers. Our servers pass that token to Steam, and Steam confirms your identity and returns your account information to us.
We store two things from Steam:
Steam may return other details about your account along with these, such as your persona name or avatar. We do not save that information to our servers.
We use your Steam friends list for one purpose: so that only your Steam friends can find and connect to your Totaljerkface account. It is a matching check and nothing more. We do not build a profile of your friendships, we do not use it to suggest people to you beyond that check, and we do not use it for advertising.
Where the GDPR applies, our legal basis for processing this data is your consent, which you give by choosing to link your Steam account and which you can withdraw at any time by unlinking.
Your Steam friends list is retrieved when you log in and is deleted when you log out. It is refreshed each time you log in again, and also during a session whenever the Steam client tells us your friends list has changed, such as when you add or remove a Steam friend. Each refresh replaces the previous copy.
In all cases, we delete the friends list data at the earliest of the following:
Your Steam ID is kept between sessions for as long as the link exists, so every trigger above removes it too, apart from logging out.
Valve publishes a list of Steam accounts that have been deleted. We check that list on a regular schedule, and when a Steam account we hold data for appears on it, we remove that account's Steam ID and friends list data from our servers and unlink it from any Totaljerkface account. This happens whether or not you visit our site again, so deleting your Steam account is enough on its own to remove the Steam data we hold.
Deletion removes the data from our live systems immediately. Residual copies in routine encrypted backups are overwritten within 30 days as those backups rotate.
Data received from Steam is stored on servers located in the United States.
We do not sell, rent or trade data received from Steam.
Advertising is served only within the totaljerkface.com website. The Steam version of the game contains no advertising. Data received from Steam is never shared with the third-party advertising companies described above, and is never used to target, select or measure advertising.
We do not publish your friends list or make it visible to other users. Your linked Steam ID is shown on your own profile page so that you can confirm which Steam account is linked before unlinking it. It is not visible to other users.
As described under Information Automatically Logged, account information may be made available to law enforcement personnel where an account is linked to illegal activity or personal threats. Data received from Steam is treated the same way as the rest of your account information in that situation.
You can unlink your Steam account at any time from your account options page. Unlinking deletes the Steam data described above. You can also request a copy of the Steam data we hold about you, or ask us to delete it, by writing to steam-support@fancyforce.com.
Steam is operated by Valve Corporation. What Steam itself collects and shares is governed by the Steam Privacy Policy, not by ours.
Last updated: September 20, 2026