Terms of Service

The following Terms of Service constitute the contractual framework governing every use of the offering reachable under the domain steamwebapi.com, including any subdomains and any directly associated tooling such as developer dashboards, account management portals, billing pages, the documentation environment, and the actual programmatic interfaces (collectively, the "Service"). They apply to private consumers and to commercial users (B2B) alike, with the few divergences mandated by the German consumer-protection regime expressly identified at the relevant points below. By creating an account, generating an API key, dispatching a request against an authenticated endpoint, or completing a paid subscription, the user enters into a binding contractual relationship with the operator of the Service on the basis of these Terms; users who do not wish to be bound by these Terms are kindly asked to refrain from using the Service.

The operator of the Service is the company identified in the Imprint reachable from every page of this website; the corresponding statutory provider information is given there in the form prescribed by § 5 DDG and is not repeated here in order to keep this contractual document focused on the substantive contractual matters between the parties. For purposes of contract conclusion, formal correspondence, and exercising rights under this contract, the operator may be reached electronically at info@sellrock.de — an inbox monitored during regular German business hours and accepted by the operator as a channel for legally significant declarations in textual form within the meaning of § 126b BGB. These Terms are concluded in the German language; an English translation is provided for accessibility purposes only and is not binding in the event of a deviation from the German text.

Scope, conclusion of contract, and applicable version

These Terms apply in their respective version in force at the time the relevant contractual act is performed by the user. The contract between the user and the operator comes into existence — depending on the relevant act — through the creation of an account, the generation of an API key, the placement of an order for a paid subscription, or any other unequivocal act of acceptance of the operator's commercial offering. Where the user enters into the contract as a commercial user (B2B) within the meaning of § 14 BGB, the user warrants that the natural person concluding the contract is duly authorised to bind the legal entity on whose behalf they are acting. Standard business terms of the user that conflict with these Terms shall not apply, even if the operator does not expressly object to them; they shall apply only insofar as the operator has expressly consented to their inclusion in writing. The contract is documented internally by the operator (account registration entry, order confirmation, electronic invoice) and may be reproduced upon written request; the contract text itself is, however, not stored in a way that would make it independently retrievable by the user beyond the legally required artefacts (in particular the invoice and the order confirmation).

User account, credentials, and API keys

Authentication of human users is performed exclusively through the Steam OpenID flow operated by Valve Corporation; neither a separate password nor an additional credential is created on the operator's side. The user is responsible for safeguarding their Steam credentials, including any second-factor configuration on Valve's side, and for ensuring that no unauthorised third party gains access to the Steam account associated with the Service. API keys are individually issued credentials that are bound to exactly one user account, may not be transferred, shared, leased, sold, or otherwise made available to unrelated third parties, and must be kept confidential by the user with the same degree of care as a password. The user is responsible for all activity carried out under their account and through their API keys until the operator has received an unambiguous notice of compromise; upon receipt of such notice, the operator will invalidate the affected key without undue delay. The operator is entitled to suspend or terminate accounts and to invalidate API keys without prior notice and with immediate effect where there are concrete indications of abuse, of a transfer in breach of these Terms, of a violation of statutory provisions, or of any other material breach of contract; statutory and contractual claims of the operator remain unaffected.

Subscriptions, prices, billing, and value-added tax

The Service is offered free of charge in a tier with sharply limited request quotas and feature scope, and on a paid basis through individually selectable subscription plans, the current scope and pricing of which are described on the publicly accessible pricing page of this website. Each paid subscription is a one-time, fixed-term purchase covering a defined period — typically thirty calendar days from the moment of activation — and does not, by default, renew automatically; in case the operator introduces auto-renewing plans in the future, such plans will be clearly designated as such, the renewal terms will be disclosed before the contract is concluded, and the user's explicit opt-in will be obtained in line with the requirements of § 312j BGB and the underlying Consumer Rights Directive. Unless explicitly indicated otherwise, all prices shown to private consumers include the statutory German value-added tax under § 14 UStG; B2B prices are shown net of value-added tax. Invoices are issued in Euro, in electronic form, and are made available to the user in the dashboard for download; payments are processed exclusively through the external payment service providers integrated into the dashboard. In the event of a default in payment, the statutory consequences under §§ 286 ff. BGB apply.

Right of withdrawal and its expiry for digital content

Where the user enters into the contract as a private consumer within the meaning of § 13 BGB, the user is, in principle, entitled to a fourteen-day right of withdrawal pursuant to § 312g (1) BGB and the Consumer Rights Directive 2011/83/EU. Because the Service is, by its very nature, a digital service whose performance begins immediately upon activation of the API key, the right of withdrawal expires under § 356 (5) BGB and Art. 16 (m) of the Consumer Rights Directive once performance has begun, provided that the consumer has expressly consented to the immediate commencement of performance and has acknowledged that this consent leads to the loss of the right of withdrawal. By completing a paid subscription within the dashboard, the consumer expressly consents to the immediate provision of the digital Service and acknowledges that the right of withdrawal lapses upon activation of the API key associated with that subscription. The consumer is informed of this consequence both before and at the moment of placing the order, and the corresponding confirmation is reproduced on the order confirmation issued thereafter.

Acceptable use of the Service

The user agrees to use the Service only in a manner that is consistent with these Terms, with the technical documentation made available by the operator, and with applicable law. The user undertakes, in particular, to refrain from: reselling, sub-licensing, or rebranding the Service in whole or in part without the operator's prior written consent; sharing, transferring, leasing, or otherwise making API keys available to third parties not party to the underlying contractual relationship; pursuing technical or contractual circumvention of rate limits, throttling, quotas, or other contractually agreed boundaries of usage; deliberately overloading the operator's infrastructure (whether through volumetric attacks, deliberately costly query patterns, or otherwise); employing the Service in connection with any activity that violates the rights of third parties — including without limitation copyright, trademark, personality, or related rights — or that violates statutory provisions of any applicable jurisdiction; using the Service to scrape, mirror, or otherwise re-create competing aggregations of the operator's data assets in a way that constitutes systematic appropriation rather than legitimate use; and using the Service to harass, defraud, or harm any third party, including any user of the Steam ecosystem. In case of doubt, the operator's interpretation of the documentation and of these Terms shall be authoritative as between the parties, subject to the user's statutory rights to dispute that interpretation in court.

Independence from Valve Corporation

The Service is provided as a wholly independent commercial offering. The operator is not, and does not claim to be, affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or otherwise institutionally connected to the Valve Corporation, the Steam platform itself, the Steam Community, the Steamworks programme, or any of the developers, publishers, or rights-holders of the games whose data the Service processes. References to the names "Steam", "Steam Community", "Counter-Strike", "CS2", "Counter-Strike 2", "CS:GO", "Dota 2", "Team Fortress 2", "Rust", and the corresponding logos are made strictly in a descriptive, nominative-fair-use sense; all corresponding rights remain with their respective rights-holders. The user acknowledges that the availability and accuracy of data ultimately sourced from Valve's own systems is dependent on Valve's own service levels and editorial choices and that the operator has no influence over those.

Service availability and force majeure

The operator endeavours to provide a consistently high level of availability and aims for an annual availability target of approximately 99.9 % calculated over a calendar month, excluding planned maintenance windows, force-majeure events, and outages caused by upstream third parties (including in particular Valve's own outages). The operator does, however, not warrant uninterrupted availability of the Service. Maintenance windows are, where reasonably possible, announced in advance through the dashboard or the operator's communication channels. In the event of an extended unavailability of a paid plan attributable solely to circumstances within the operator's sphere of control and exceeding what is reasonable in the context of an internet service of this nature, the user is invited to contact support; depending on the circumstances, the operator may, in its reasonable discretion, grant a pro-rata credit on a future subscription period. Force-majeure events within the meaning of these Terms include, in particular, large-scale internet outages, data-centre incidents not caused by the operator, denial-of-service attacks, statutory or governmental orders, strikes, pandemics, and any comparable circumstances beyond the operator's reasonable control.

Liability

The liability of the operator for damages, regardless of the legal ground, is governed by the following provisions, which give effect to the case-law of the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof) on the limitation of liability in standard business terms. The operator is liable without limitation for damages caused intentionally or by gross negligence, for damages arising from injury to life, body, or health, for damages caused by the absence of a guaranteed characteristic, for liability under the German Product Liability Act (Produkthaftungsgesetz), and to the extent that the operator has fraudulently concealed a defect. For damages caused by the breach of a so-called cardinal obligation — that is, an obligation whose performance is essential for the orderly execution of the contract and on whose performance the user typically relies — caused by simple negligence, the operator's liability is limited to the typical, foreseeable damage at the time of conclusion of the contract. Any further liability for simple negligence is excluded. The above limitations apply equally to the personal liability of the operator's legal representatives, employees, and other vicarious agents. Save as expressly set out in this paragraph, the operator does not assume any liability for content, behaviour, or data ultimately originating from third parties, including the Valve ecosystem.

Term and termination

The contract for use of the free tier of the Service is concluded for an indefinite period and may be terminated by either party at any time without prior notice and without giving reasons; termination by the user is effected by ceasing to use the Service or by deleting the account through the dashboard. Contracts for paid subscriptions are concluded for the agreed fixed term and end automatically upon expiry of that term unless the user concludes a new paid subscription. The operator's right to extraordinary termination of the contract for cause within the meaning of § 314 BGB — in particular for material breach of these Terms by the user, for repeated abuse of the Service, for transfer of API keys in breach of contract, or for failure to pay due amounts after a reasonable grace period — remains unaffected. Upon termination of the contractual relationship, all API keys associated with the affected account are invalidated; access to the dashboard and to the Service ceases. Statutory retention obligations relating to invoicing data and other accounting records remain unaffected by the termination of the contract.

Governing law, place of performance, and jurisdiction

These Terms and the contractual relationship between the operator and the user are exclusively governed by the substantive law of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding its conflict-of-laws rules and excluding the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). Where the user is a private consumer with habitual residence in another Member State of the European Union, the choice of German law is without prejudice to the protection that the consumer enjoys under the mandatory provisions of the law of their country of habitual residence pursuant to Art. 6 Rome I Regulation. Place of performance for both contractual parties is the registered seat of the operator, as identified in the Imprint. For all disputes arising out of or in connection with these Terms with users that are merchants within the meaning of the German Commercial Code (Handelsgesetzbuch, HGB), legal entities under public law, or special funds under public law, the courts at the registered seat of the operator have exclusive jurisdiction; the operator is, however, additionally entitled to bring proceedings against such users at their general place of jurisdiction. Mandatory statutory rules on consumer-protection forums remain unaffected. The operator is — as further explained in the Imprint — neither obliged to nor willing to participate in dispute-resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.

Severability

Should any provision of these Terms be or become invalid, void, or unenforceable in whole or in part, the validity of the remaining provisions shall not be affected. The parties undertake to replace any invalid or unenforceable provision with a valid and enforceable provision that comes as close as legally possible to the economic intent of the invalid or unenforceable provision. The same applies analogously in the event of an unintended gap.

Amendments to these Terms

The operator reserves the right to amend these Terms with effect for the future where this is necessary in order to take account of changes in applicable statutory provisions, the case-law of competent courts, the practice of competent authorities, the evolution of the technical and economic environment in which the Service is operated, or material extensions or modifications of the Service. Material amendments — that is, amendments that go beyond purely editorial or clarifying adjustments — will be communicated to active subscribers through the channels available within the Service (typically by email and by a dashboard notification) at least four weeks before the amended Terms enter into force. If the user does not object to the amended Terms within four weeks of the notification, the amended Terms shall be deemed accepted; the operator will draw the user's attention to this consequence in the notification. If the user objects in due time, the operator is entitled to terminate the contractual relationship for the date on which the amended Terms would otherwise have entered into force.