Privacy Policy

The short version

• The website sets no cookies and the calculator runs entirely in your browser.
• The bot never stores your screenshots: they are held in memory for the AI analysis and then discarded.
• Your Telegram ID is stored only as a one-way SHA-256 hash.
• Send /delete in the bot to erase your data immediately.

This website

gameaccountvalue.com sets no cookies, uses no analytics, tracking pixels or advertising, and loads no third-party scripts, fonts or images. Everything is served from this domain, and a Content-Security-Policy blocks other origins. The value calculator runs in your browser: nothing you move or select is sent anywhere. The hosting provider (GitHub Pages) processes standard technical request data such as IP addresses to deliver the site, as any web host does; we do not receive or store it. Links to marketplaces, publishers, Twitch and other sources open their own sites, which have their own privacy policies.

The site is also delivered through Cloudflare (a content delivery and security network), which, like the host, processes technical request data such as IP addresses; we do not receive or store it. Your browser keeps two small settings for this site only, and they are never sent anywhere: whether you pressed “Pause animation” (local storage) and which phone of the decorative phone timeline was shown last during this visit (session storage). Clearing your browser’s site data removes them.

Screenshots and AI processing

To produce a valuation, your screenshots are sent to Google’s Gemini API for AI image analysis at the moment you submit them. The service cannot work without this step. Google processes this data under its own API terms and privacy policy; we do not control Google’s retention of API inputs. No other third party receives your screenshots.

What the bot stores

• Your Telegram ID as a one-way hash, whether you accepted the 18+ terms, and the date of your last free estimate.
• The game, the date and the AI-generated valuation result.
• For paid audits: the name printed on your card (your Telegram first name, or the in-game name read from your screenshots), the card number, edition and tier, and the Telegram payment charge ID, which is kept so that a payment can be refunded.
• A fingerprint of each screenshot — a short code calculated from the image, not the image itself — used to notice the same screenshot being reused by different people. Fingerprints are deleted after 90 days.
• Anything you choose to write to us in the bot, such as feedback or a support message.
• Referral and partner records, if you use those programmes.

To avoid running the AI twice on identical screenshots, its reading of the images is cached under a one-way hash of the image files. The cache contains no user ID and is not linked to you.

What we never collect

• Your screenshots — they are never written to disk or kept by us.
• Game logins or passwords. We never ask for them.
• Payment card details — payments are handled by Telegram.
• Your phone number or contacts.

Your card and its public page

For a paid audit the bot also publishes your card image and estimated value on a page at telegra.ph (Telegram’s publishing service), so you can share it with a link. We do not publish that link anywhere, but anyone who has it can open the page, and search engines may index it. Telegraph does not allow pages to be deleted, so /delete cannot remove it. The card on that page shows the name printed on it. The page exists as soon as the card is issued, whether or not you share the link: keeping the link to yourself limits who knows the address, but does not take the page offline. Anyone who knows your card number or Scan ID can also check the card in the bot, which shows the data printed on it.

Public leaderboard (optional). After a paid audit the bot asks whether to list your card in its /top leaderboard. You choose: with the name printed on your card, with the card number only, or not at all. The entry shows that name or number, the game and the estimated value. Nothing is listed unless you choose to, and /delete removes your entry together with the rest of your data.

Legal basis

We process the data above under GDPR Art. 6(1)(b): it is necessary to perform the valuation you asked for. For paid features, processing your payment status is also necessary for that contract. Screenshot fingerprints are processed under Art. 6(1)(f), our legitimate interest in preventing fraud, and are limited to 90 days.

How long we keep it

Data is kept until you delete it yourself with /delete. That command immediately removes everything linked to your hashed ID: valuations, cards, payment references, fingerprints, messages, and referral or partner balances. Once deleted, your card no longer verifies. Screenshot fingerprints are removed automatically after 90 days in any case. The public Telegraph page described above is outside our control.

Automated decision-making

Your valuation is produced entirely by automated AI processing — no person reviews or approves individual results. It has no legal or similarly significant effect on you: it is an estimate for information and entertainment, not a binding price, a credit decision or an eligibility check, so GDPR Art. 22 does not apply. See the AI disclaimer in our Terms of Service for how to read the result.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, erase, restrict or object to the processing of your data, and to receive a copy of it. Because we hold so little, most of these rights are exercised the same way: write to us in the bot or use /delete. If you are in the EU, EEA or UK, you can also complain to your local data protection authority at any time.

Contact

Data controller: Aleksei Sergeevich Bitkin, independent developer. Contact and support: t.me/GameAccountValue_Bot

This English text is the reference version. Translations into 23 other languages are provided so that everyone can read it in their own language; if a translation differs, the English version applies.