Privacy
Last updated: 28 August 2026
The short version
There are no accounts, no sign-up, no email, and no payment. This site sets no cookies of its own. Nothing is sold, rented, or shared for advertising, because nothing is collected that could be.
The one identifier the site can handle is a SteamID, it is optional, and you can erase it at any time from the profile panel.
What is stored in your browser
If you enter a SteamID so the page can show which achievements you
already hold, it is saved in your own browser under
localStorage, with the key histlow.steamid.
It stays on your device. It is not copied into any database, because this site has no database of any kind. Clearing it is immediate: open My profile and use the clear button, or clear site data in your browser.
What your browser sends to this site
Three kinds of request, and nothing else:
- What you type into the search box, to look up a game
- Which game you open
- Which achievement you expand, to fetch its steps
When a SteamID is saved, it is attached to the request that loads a game, so the page can mark what you already have.
Server logs, stated plainly
This site runs on Cloudflare, which records incoming requests. Those records include the full address requested, your IP address, and your browser's user-agent string.
That means a saved SteamID appears in those logs, because it travels as part of the address. A SteamID is a public profile identifier rather than a secret, but it is still tied to a person, and it would be dishonest not to say so here. It is not stored anywhere else, and responses containing your personal progress are marked so that they are never kept in any shared cache.
If you would rather that not happen, do not save a SteamID. Everything except your personal progress works exactly the same without one.
Who else sees you
This distinction matters more than it usually gets credit for, so it is split rather than lumped together.
Reached directly by your browser — these see your IP address
-
Steam's image servers
(
steamstatic.com,steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net,media.steampowered.com) — achievement icons and cover art are loaded straight from Steam. -
Cloudflare Web Analytics
(
static.cloudflareinsights.com) — counts page views. It sets no cookies and does not follow you to other sites.
Reached by this site's server on your behalf — these do not see you
- Steam's Web API and store — game, achievement and rarity data
- Steam Community — the player-written guides the steps are built from
- Cloudflare Workers AI — rewrites guide passages into steps in English
Requests to these are made by the server, not by you, so your IP address is never handed to them.
What this site never does
- Set advertising or tracking cookies
- Sell, rent, or share data with advertisers or data brokers
- Ask for an email address, a password, or a payment method
- Build a profile of you across other websites
Children
This site is not directed at children and asks for no personal details from anyone.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. There is no mailing list to notify, by design.
Contact
A contact address has not been published yet. Until one is, questions about this policy can be raised through the project's repository.