Guide · for Everyone
What a Scan Uploads, and What Never Leaves Your PC
The exact list of data sent with a scan report, what stays on your computer, and how public pages hide personal details.
Updated · 1 min read · by the AACGUARD team
An anti-cheat has to look at your PC, but it should only send what admins need to judge a scan. Here is exactly what AACGUARD uploads, and what it doesn't. The Privacy Notice has the complete legal version.
Sent with a scan report
- Your SteamID and Steam name, the verdict, the score and the game.
- The scan log: every finding with its file path or site, and when it was used.
- The server you play on.
- A partly masked IP address, for example
2*.42*.**.2*. - A one-way hardware fingerprint made of hashes, never serial numbers, meant to help against ban evasion.
- While the app runs, your AACGuard Live status every minute.
Never sent
- The contents of your files, except game config files identified as cheat configs.
- Documents, photos, passwords or saved logins.
- Your browser history, except pages that match known cheat sites and searches.
- Executables, browser databases or registry files.
How public pages protect you
Scan pages on aacguard.com are public so admins can see them. Before showing a log, the website hides your Windows account name, personal names it finds in folder and file names, e-mail addresses and the organisation in work or school OneDrive folders, and masks device serial numbers and MAC addresses. Findings stay readable, because admins need them.
You stay in control
- You can scan without uploading: the scan still runs on your PC.
- You can turn AACGuard Live and Start with Windows off in the tray menu.
- You can ask for your data to be deleted at [email protected].