Privacy Policy

Welcome to VAC Link (vaclink.site). We respect your personal privacy and are committed to protecting any data processed through our anti-cheat telemetry service and associated bots on Discord and Telegram.

1. Information We Collect

VAC Link operates with data minimization principles. We only collect and process data strictly necessary to provide ban tracking:

• Public Steam Data: Public 64-bit SteamIDs, community vanity URLs, public player avatar thumbnails, and Valve public ban statuses obtained via the official Valve Steam Web API.
• Bot Interaction Identifiers: Discord channel IDs, Discord user IDs, and Telegram chat IDs provided when you execute /watch to enable webhook notification delivery.
• Anonymous Web Analytics: Basic anonymous site performance metrics via Google Analytics to monitor service reliability and page load times.

2. How Data Is Used

We process your data strictly to:

• Query Valve's public anti-cheat records to identify whether a monitored profile receives a VAC or Game Ban.
• Dispatch real-time notification webhooks to your designated Discord channel or Telegram chat when a ban occurs.
• Calculate aggregate, anonymized statistics displayed on the global telemetry HUD.

3. European GDPR Rights

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

• Right of Access & Portability: You can request a copy of the target IDs registered to your Discord or Telegram account.
• Right to Erasure (Right to be Forgotten): You can request immediate removal of your target watchlist or identifiers from our active database.
• Right to Restriction of Processing: You may request cessation of telemetry checks for specific targets.

4. Third-Party Data Sharing

VAC Link does not sell, lease, or monetize user data. All data communications occur directly with:

• Valve Corporation: To query public ban status endpoints.
• Discord Inc. & Telegram FZ-LLC: To deliver bot webhook messages.
• Edge Infrastructure Providers: Global high-speed encrypted edge servers to route web traffic.

5. Contact Us

For data privacy inquiries, requests for erasure, or GDPR compliance notices, please contact us directly via our official Telegram bot (@Linkvacbot) or through the official website at vaclink.site.