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Privacy Policy

Last update: July 20, 2024

This policy explains what information Skin.Trade collects for account access, Steam trading, balances, payouts, fraud prevention, support, and platform security.

What this policy covers

This Privacy Policy explains how Skin.Trade collects, uses, stores, shares, and protects information when You use the Service.
It applies to account features, Steam-based trading flows, balance activity, support communication, payment and payout requests, and site usage.
By using Skin.Trade, You agree to the collection and use of information as described in this policy.

Account, Steam and profile information

We may collect account and contact information such as email address, username, identifiers, and support messages when You provide them.
When You authenticate through Steam or another supported provider, we may receive information made available by that provider, such as Steam ID, display name, avatar, profile visibility, and related account identifiers.
We may process trade URL, inventory visibility, selected items, bot assignment, and other information needed to prepare, verify, or complete Steam trade flows.

Transaction, balance and payout information

We may collect and store transaction records, item details, item prices, balance changes, deposits, withdrawals, payout method, payout network, payout address, payment status, timestamps, and related support notes.
Crypto wallet addresses, transaction hashes, payment links, provider responses, and network information may be stored when needed to process or verify deposits and withdrawals.
We may retain records of failed, reversed, canceled, refunded, suspicious, or manually reviewed transactions for accounting, security, dispute handling, and fraud prevention.

Cookies and tracking technologies

We use cookies and similar technologies such as beacons, tags, and scripts to operate, improve, analyze, and secure the Service.
Essential cookies help authenticate users, prevent fraudulent account use, and provide features You request.
Preference and functionality cookies may remember choices such as login details or language preferences.
You can configure Your browser to refuse cookies, but some parts of the Service may not work correctly without them.

Usage, device and diagnostic data

We may collect usage data automatically, such as IP address, browser type, browser version, pages visited, visit time, time spent on pages, device identifiers, and diagnostic data.
When You access the Service from a mobile device, we may collect device type, operating system, mobile browser type, IP address, and unique identifiers.
This data helps us monitor platform reliability, debug issues, prevent abuse, improve performance, and understand how the Service is used.

How we use information

To provide, maintain, monitor, and improve the Service.
To manage Your account, Steam trade offers, item transfers, deposits, withdrawals, balances, support requests, and Service-related notices.
To process transactions, calculate prices, apply fees, perform risk checks, investigate disputes, and comply with legal or operational obligations.
To analyze usage trends, improve product performance, prevent fraud, detect abuse, secure accounts, and evaluate Service reliability.
To send operational communication and, where permitted, promotional communication unless You opt out where applicable.

How information may be shared

With service providers who help us operate, monitor, analyze, support, secure, or improve the Service.
With Steam-related systems, payment providers, crypto payment processors, blockchain networks, infrastructure providers, analytics tools, fraud prevention tools, and support tools when needed for the Service.
With affiliates, business partners, or successor entities when required for business operations, legal compliance, dispute handling, or a business transfer.
With public authorities or other parties when disclosure is required by law or necessary to protect rights, safety, property, or legal liability.
With Your consent, or when You choose to share information publicly or through third-party social services.

Retention, transfer, and security

We retain personal data only as long as necessary for the purposes described in this policy, unless a longer period is required for legal, security, dispute, or enforcement reasons.
Transaction, balance, payout, fraud prevention, and support records may be retained where needed for accounting, compliance, abuse prevention, chargeback handling, or dispute resolution.
Usage and diagnostic data is generally retained for a shorter period, unless needed for security, diagnostics, functionality improvements, or legal obligations.
Information may be processed or maintained in locations outside Your country or jurisdiction.
We use commercially reasonable safeguards, but no method of transmission or electronic storage is completely secure.

Security and responsibility disclaimer

Skin.Trade is not responsible for privacy or security incidents caused by Your compromised Steam account, email account, device, browser, wallet, API key, credentials, or third-party services outside our direct control.
Skin.Trade is not responsible for information You choose to share publicly, submit to third-party services, enter into incorrect payment fields, or disclose through phishing, malware, social engineering, or unsafe account practices.
Third-party providers such as Steam, payment processors, crypto networks, analytics tools, infrastructure providers, and support tools may process information under their own policies. We are not responsible for their independent privacy or security practices.
No internet service can guarantee absolute security. We use commercially reasonable safeguards, but You remain responsible for maintaining secure account access, devices, wallets, and contact details.

Your choices and deletion requests

You may update, amend, or delete certain information from within Your account where those controls are available.
You may contact us to request access, correction, or deletion of personal information You have provided.
Some information may need to be retained when we have a legal obligation, security reason, dispute, or legitimate business need to keep it.

Third-party links and policy updates

The Service may contain links to third-party websites that are not operated by Skin.Trade. We are not responsible for their content, privacy policies, or practices.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes are effective when posted on this page with an updated date.
You should review this policy periodically for changes.

If You have questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us.

What this means for a trade

Skin.Trade privacy pages on Skin.Trade are written for people who want a practical path from research to a completed Steam trade. A skin price is not a single number. It moves with exterior, float, StatTrak, pattern, stickers, and how many similar listings are live. Start by naming the exact finish, then compare that finish with nearby wears instead of trusting a headline price from an old screenshot.

Before you buy Skin.Trade privacy items, sign in with Steam, confirm Steam Guard Mobile, and save a working Trade URL. Skin.Trade delivers purchased skins with an official Steam trade offer. If the Trade URL is missing or the inventory is private, the offer cannot be completed. Set those account details first so checkout is not the moment you discover a block.

Selling works in the other direction. Select the items you actually want to cash out, review the quote, and send the trade only after the item names and quantities match. A quote is tied to the items in that offer. Swapping a Factory New piece for a Field-Tested one, or adding a stickered skin you did not mean to include, changes the value. Read the offer on Steam before you accept it.

Float and exterior explain most price gaps inside one finish. Factory New and Minimal Wear can be close on some weapons and far apart on others. Battle-Scarred is not automatically a bargain if the float is at the high end of the range or the pattern is unpopular. When a listing looks cheap, check the wear label, the float if it is shown, and whether StatTrak is present. Those three fields prevent the most common bad purchases.

Patterns and stickers are the next split. Doppler, Fade, Case Hardened, and similar finishes are priced by pattern, not only by name. A craft with tournament stickers can be worth more than the base gun, or the stickers can be scraped and worth little. Do not pay a craft premium unless you can see the stickers and you want them. For a play skin, a clean listing without a craft is usually easier to resell.

Liquidity matters as much as the sticker price. A common rifle skin with many listings is easier to buy and sell than a rare knife pattern with one listing. If you may want to cash out later, prefer finishes that show steady supply on Skin.Trade and on the broader market. A low asking price on an item nobody is buying is not a discount. It is a listing that can sit.

Crypto is the payout and deposit rail on Skin.Trade. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and USDT are the methods shoppers use, and each network has its own minimum and fee. Match the network to the wallet you control. An ERC20 USDT address is not a BEP20 address. Sending or requesting the wrong network is the usual reason a payment looks missing. The Limits and Fees page lists the current minimums so you can check them before you move funds.

Balance on the site is for buying. A completed sale can be withdrawn in crypto or left on the balance for the next purchase. Withdrawals follow the minimum for that method. If you are cashing out a small stack of cheap skins, grouping them into one sale is often cleaner than several payouts that each sit near the minimum. Fees are shown with the method, not added as a surprise after you confirm.

Security is part of the trade, not a separate product. Skin.Trade will not ask for your Steam password, Steam Guard code, private key, or seed phrase. Support is handled with Discord tickets. Impersonators copy avatars and ask for those secrets. Confirm the ticket is the official Skin.Trade server, and never move a trade off-platform because a message told you the site is down.

Use the guides as a checklist, then verify the live listing. Article prices and tier lists go stale. The marketplace row is the current ask. If this Skin.Trade privacy page helped you narrow a finish, open Buy to see what is actually for sale, or open Sell if you already hold the item and want a quote. That last check is what keeps a researched purchase from becoming an outdated one.

A useful Skin.Trade privacy shortlist has three columns: the finish you want, the wear you will actually play with, and the highest price you will pay today. Write those down before you open the market. Listings are easier to compare when the decision is already bounded. A Factory New knife and a Field-Tested rifle can both be “a good skin” and still be the wrong purchase if one of them blows the budget you set for the other.

Check supply before you treat a low ask as a win. Sort the same finish by price and see how many rows sit near that number. If several sellers are clustered together, the price is a market. If one row is far below the cluster, read the exterior and StatTrak flag again. The usual explanation is a higher float, a scraped sticker, or a different phase, not a generous seller. Paying the cluster price for the item you actually wanted is cheaper than “saving” money on a wear you will relist tomorrow.

When you sell Skin.Trade privacy items, split the inventory into keep and cash-out before you select anything. Play skins, gifts, and crafts you care about should not sit in the same selection as the duplicates you want gone. The Steam offer lists every item that will leave your inventory. Read that list on Steam, not only the quote on Skin.Trade. If a name is wrong, decline. Rebuilding the offer takes a minute. Reversing a completed trade does not.

Deposits and withdrawals are separate from the skin quote. Fund the balance with the crypto network your wallet already uses, then buy from that balance. After a sale, leave the funds on the site if you expect to buy again, or withdraw once the amount clears the minimum for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, or the USDT network you selected. A payout under the minimum stays on the balance. That is the limit working, not a failed sale.

Keep a short record of the trade id, the Steam offer id, and the wallet address you used. Support can match those three pieces faster than a description of “the red knife from yesterday.” Discord tickets are the support channel. A direct message that asks you to cancel the official offer and send the skin to a different account is not part of Skin.Trade privacy checkout. The offer Skin.Trade created is the one you accept.

Guides on this site name finishes, commands, and loadouts. They do not lock a price. Cases, operations, and majors move demand, and a tier list from last season can still be a good explanation of why a skin is popular while being a bad quote for today. Use the article to decide what to look at. Use the live row on Buy, or the quote on Sell, to decide what to pay or accept.

If you are new to Skin.Trade privacy trading, do the first purchase with one inexpensive skin. Confirm the Trade URL, accept one Steam offer, and see the item land in the right inventory. That rehearsal is worth more than a large first cart. Once the path is familiar, larger orders are the same steps: balance, exact listing, Steam confirmation. The auction lobby and giveaways are different products. Do not fund them while you are trying to complete an ordinary purchase.

Return to the category you started from when you want another finish in the same game. CS2, Dota, TF2, and Rust archives are separate because the items, the economies, and the trade habits are not the same. A CS2 float note does not price a TF2 unusual, and a Dota set is not a CS2 loadout. Stay inside the archive that matches the inventory you are changing, then confirm the item name on the offer before you accept it.

Price a Skin.Trade privacy item in the order the market actually uses. Start with the weapon or hero, then the finish name, then the exterior. Only after those three match should you look at StatTrak, Souvenir, pattern, and stickers. Mixing that order is how two listings with the same thumbnail end up hundreds of dollars apart. A low float inside Factory New is a different product from the top of the Factory New range, and a phase or fade percentage can matter more than the wear label.

Stickers need their own look. A craft is valuable when the stickers are the ones buyers search for, they are unscraped, and their positions are intact. A random mix of cheap stickers does not inherit that premium. If the listing does not show the stickers clearly, do not pay a craft price for it. On a sale, point the stickers out in your own check so you are not quoting a plain gun when the inventory item is a craft, or the reverse.

Liquidity is the part tier lists skip. A finish can be famous and still be hard to sell if only one listing exists and nobody is taking it. Before you buy a Skin.Trade privacy piece you may want to cash out, look at how many similar rows are live and how close their prices sit. A tight cluster means you can leave later near the same number. A single outlier can sit for weeks. Fame is not the same thing as a buyer.

Set the account up once. Steam Guard Mobile has to be on, the inventory you trade from has to be public enough for the offer to generate, and the Trade URL saved on Skin.Trade has to belong to that same account. A URL copied from a friend, or an old URL from a second account, sends the skin to the wrong place. Update it before you pay, not after the offer fails. The same URL is what a sale uses when the site sends the offer you accept.

Move money on the network you can actually check. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and USDT each have a minimum and a fee on the Limits and Fees page. USDT additionally has a chain. Paste an address only after the chain on the withdrawal matches the chain in your wallet. If the amount is under the minimum, leave it on the site balance and use it for the next skin. Splitting a small cash-out across several networks usually costs more than waiting until the balance is large enough for one withdrawal.

Keep the first Skin.Trade privacy order small if you have not completed a Skin.Trade round trip before. One affordable skin proves the Trade URL, the Steam confirmation, and the inventory you expected. After that offer lands, a larger cart is the same sequence with more rows. Do not mix that rehearsal with a risk-auction entry or a giveaway ticket. Those spend balance too, and they do not deliver the specific listing you were researching.

When a guide and the live page disagree, trust the live page. Articles explain what a finish is and why players want it. They are written once. The buy row and the sell quote change with supply. If this Skin.Trade privacy note names a price, a drop, or a ranking, treat it as context and recheck it before you confirm. The Steam offer is the final list of items. If a name, exterior, or quantity on that offer is not what you selected, decline it and start again.

Support can reconstruct a trade from three facts: the Skin.Trade transaction or trade id, the Steam offer id, and, for a payout, the wallet address plus the network. Put those in a Discord ticket. Do not send a Steam password, a Steam Guard code, or a wallet seed, and do not accept a direct message that tells you the official offer is wrong and a different bot should receive the item. The offer created from your signed-in session is the trade.